All alone in the world!

Anybody here....????

Nop!I'm alone!9:30 AM 24/1/08

Not only in the room but in the whole house. Somehow I get kinda transported by the music I´m playing and only come back at the moment I push the stop button, if that´s what you mean.
If you mean that everybody in the room leaves it because of the music, then shame on them!

Yes, I know what you mean, I´ve edited my post (it has taken me a while to get the message ).
I usually play the music with my great headphones, so usually it´s only me listening to the music. I´ve never experienced the room clearance you talk about, but if I am ever in that situation I wouldn´t know what to think / do, seriously.

Great technique! A bit tricky, but great.

I don´t use to play film music while I´m in the car with somebody not into film music; but when I´m with a score geek like me, man then I play it REALLY loud. The last time I did that with a friend was to show him the "Decimation Proclamation" track. He ended up like

Well, in that case...yeeaahhhh....

Good question Alan. I think it happens here too. They can have a couple of tracks, then they're done with it. My experience is that people who are not into filmmusic only like the catchy themes and all the rest must sound like underscore to them. While to us the music tells much more, we see the whole picture (pun not intended, I mean the whole musical picture, the connection between everything we hear), we hear what the music consists of, while other people just hear nervous sounds. Least popular therefore are action tracks, tension builders and anything 'weird' (we would call it ethnic stuff).

I don't think so. Only the obvious ones, like a heroic theme and a theme for the bad guys for instance.

I also forgot to say that I once heard a comment about filmmusic that it all sounds the same. I think that shows how they can't hear the subtle distinction like different themes, motifs, played by different instruments, in a different tempo, etc. Let alone different composer styles.

Man, they don't know what they're missing!!

Nope. They always stay and try to figure out which film its from! I love it.

My friends know me too well and do exactly the same thing

Me! I like your positive view of not "being there" Volker

Yeah, it's unbelievable that all these major concerts all fall within a few weeks. Horner, Elfman, Desplat. I'm fortunate to live close by and easy to get to. I hope there's one where we all can meet again.

I'm not galivanting off around the UK and Europe either. Wish I was though.

The same here! Well, I can't listen to any music today, because another memeber of the family is practicing the piano. So I do listen to music, but that would be somewhat off topic.

Also I have to mark essay-tests about a drama by Goethe. (Iphigenie auf Tauris). That of course is set in Goethe's imagined classical version of your country.

I thought the FSM "Ben Hur" edition would arrive today, but it didn't. The German postal service is already slowed down by Christmas parcels.

So, how are your little students? Have the taken you in their hearts yet?

Greetings!
Volker

Present Continous - interesting, we call it Present Progressive, if that is the same thing ... the -ing thing.

So glad, you have a good relation to your students. Some month ago I saw a report about a Greek school. My impression was, that teachers have a more personal relation to their students there than they have here in Germany. Teachers are tutors in the first place not distributors of knowledge. I believe the same applies to US high schools. In Germany things are slowly developing in that direction. I strongly support that. But command structures are firmly ingrained in the German mind.

V.