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Live Poll: Vangelis — Composer
Vangelis (1943 – 2022), was a Greek composer and arranger of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music.
Vangelis began his career in the 1960s as a member of the rock band Aphrodite's Child.
Vangelis composed the official anthem of the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in Korea and Japan.
In his last twenty years, Vangelis collaborated with NASA and ESA on music projects Mythodea (1993), Rosetta (2016), and Juno to Jupiter (2021).
Having had a career in music spanning over 50 years and having composed and performed more than 50 albums, Vangelis is one of the most important figures in the history of electronic music, and modern film music.
Which is your favorite Vangelis score?
Maxence_G
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The music of Conquest of Paradise is the most significant to me.
Last June, I went to a concert offered by my school's symphony orchestra. Anyone who knows me knows that I did not go for music. I know nothing about music. I went there because I had a crush on a girl. I feared it would be my last occasion to talk to her. I already knew her though, I mean we had been on the same Genies en herbes team for 5 years. But, I'm a really really shy person, over those 5 years I barely talked to her. Frankly, at mid-point into the concert, I did not know a single piece of music, and I hate making hollow commentaries such as "you were really good tonight" without having examples to back my claims. By a miracle, one of the last pieces of music was Vangelis' Conquest of Paradise, even though I could not hear her playing very well (because the louder instruments were hiding the sound of her clarinet), I used this music (and Vangelis' recent death) as a way to initiate a conversation with her after the concert. I talked about how moving it was to hear this particular music just after Vangelis' death, it is not any Vangelis music, it is a music called Conquest of Paradise. Truly a fitting requiem. The most impressive, as I learned from her, is that orchestra began practicing this Conquest of Paradise before Vangelis' passing.
This whole thing seems to come straight from a romantic comedy but be reassured, the ending is not so romantic. I still hang out with this girl once a month or so. Since this music gave me the inspiration to talk to her, she did not completely vanish from my life. Yet, I never dated her, she is not my best friend either. Now, she only seems to have understood that I don't totally dislike her. Prior, to our conversation, she would intentionally avoid me. Now, she does not.
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Jessica
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Tsarstepan
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1 year ago
Hot take: I hate the main theme from Chariots of Fire. Maybe irrationally so.
Went with Blade Runner.
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