I'd like to accept a challenge if any classical music-lovers would like to set it me. Classiical music brings out the best in my lush-style writing. Would anyone like to challenge me to base a story on a favourite (or un-favourite) piece? It would be a more exciting challenge if you also specified your own taste or genre (eg, gay, str, or bi; I don't really do sci-fi, but any other genre would answer. You could also tell me what you like or don't like about the piece). You could also specify a word count. If you want I'll read your profile and tailor it to your tastes (though I can't promise too much)
Excellent thought. However, my initial selection, I fear, is way too simple. Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique. I felt the story he wove in this piece from when I first heard it.
Another thought is Stravinsky's The Firebird.
Great question! Well, since you're a violinist, what could be more erotic than Barber's Adagio for strings?
Slow. Intense. Emotional. Passionate. Gradually building higher and higher. Up to a loud powerful climax. Then gradually back down to a beautiful soft contentment.
So the genre would be "slow sex": a single sex act written as slowly as you can with as many words as possible. OK that's my next Lush story planned out...
The most orgasmic piece of music I know is the love duet from the end of Act I of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Long slow build, swelling, receding, rebuilding, gradually rising up to the point where both singers are holding a high C over an earth-shattering dominant 13th which, even when it breaks, does so onto a suspended supertonic which just prolongs the ecstasy. (My wife and I sometimes make love with this is on in the background. If we time it right, well...!)
I don't know how you'd surpass this text, though:
Trema, brilla ogni favilla
col baglior d'una pupilla!
Oh! quanti occhi fissi, attenti
d'ogni parte a riguardar!
Via l'angoscia dal tuo cor
ti serro palpitante. Sei mia.
Vieni, guarda: dorme ogni cosa!
Tutto estatico d'amor ride il ciel!
Vien! sei mia!
(and then the orgasm)
The irony is that Pinkerton is a total douche-bag, and Butterfly is going to get totally fucked over by him - and we know that right from the beginning. We should hate his character - but, like Butterfly, we fall for him, because he sings some of the most sublime music ever written. Ah, the genius of Puccini!
Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man. Only broadly fits the theme you've chosen (Classical is actual a specific period isn't it?), but a favorite of mine. Love and sex are two things that every person can share and is something the binds us together although, as is common with just about everything else in life, it can also be used as a way to divide us instead of unifying us. Category would be love story.
Thanks so much for all your challenges. At last, I've completed my first one, and I promise I'll take up some more. Looks as though some of you have taken up your own challenges too. I'd no idea there were so many classical music experts on L S. Shows the quality of the site yet again.
Thanks to our amazing editorial team, I've completed four stories, one on each of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Symphonic Sketches', the voluptuous 'Scheherazade'. It's been so obsessive I have to apologise for doing very little LS reading and commenting on your stories. I'll make up for lost time on that score. I'm enjoying getting to know you all since I started in July. I hope some of you will want to be friends.
I'm hoping the stories will appeal to the heart, as Lacie's relationships balance giving with taking, teaching with learning, and submitting with wrestling. To the loins, as I hope it adequately oozes what we come to LS for; and to the head, as you seem so knowledgeable about Russian music. The stories hide anagrams, allusions and references to Russian composers and their works. (for instance, the ship is called the Coq d'Or, and a famous bumblebee makes a brief appearance towards the end). If you know Scheherazade well, you will find every description of the music matches its position in the story. Because of my delight in the profile of one of my challengers, a certain Alice Liddell insinuated herself into every story without my volition, and presented a cornucopia of conundrums and concealed citations, from the name of her cat to the mock turtle's definitions of the three R's. I have offered to pm a key if anyone wants.
If you haven't already and would like to read two other musical stories, you might like to read Octet, and Rusalka. I've entered links to those too.
https://"> Scheherazade, Finale: The Festival at Al Nen Drowd; Stormy Intercourse and Shipwreck
<a href="https://"> Rusalka </a>
<a href="https://"> Octet </a>
