You have to get past the little “oops” at the beginning and another that comes a bit later. But this is great fun! I doubt I’ll ever hear Strauss the same again. (I think I like this better!)
Great fun! Thanks, dk! :-)
One thing about Peter Schickele’s PDQ Bach stuff is you really have to play it well. And these young musicians do a great job!
And … um … HEY!
… and then there’s this, from just a few year back:
I’d love to know the story behind this group!!
Charleston, anyone?
Bach?
… and ain’t she sweet?
Jay teasingly (?) mocked Chanticleer.
& Chanticleer gets him back!
I don’t know how many of you have experienced the First Clapper, but sometimes it can be pretty darn annoying! It’s especially distracting when we are playing a piece that ends with near silence, and the clapper, in order to let everyone know that he knows it’s done, jumps in just a smidge sooner than anyone else would prefer. But still … do we rely on them? What if we didn’t have them? Hmmm?
Many thanks to The Omniscient Mussel for bringing this to my attention!
I hadn’t heard of the piano puzzler before. Listen to the piece. It’s in the style of a composer you are supposed to name (easy part, at least in this one), but it’s a song that has been put into that style and you are supposed to name the tune. Since I didn’t know what I was supposed to do I didn’t know I was supposed to be hearing a song. But I’m not sure I would have been able to name it even if I was given the instructions. After the piece is played you’ll hear the contestant, the pianist, and the radio host (?) and you’ll get the answer when the work is replayed a bit with the emphasis on the song.
Oboe Club: Will it be the Death of Guitar Club?
by Grogan Kubrick, staff writer“They might as well call it Loser Club,” said Oboe Club president Martin Lewinsky about the school’s Guitar Club.
Lewinsky, a sophomore, along with other Kennedy oboists, has formed the school’s new Oboe Club as an alternative to the Guitar Club. He thinks that the overwhelming popularity of oboe music will attract student musicians. ” I mean, what high school student wants to play a guitar for an hour after school once a week with some other kids who happen to be able to play guitar as well? The youth does not respond to ‘rock’ instruments these days; they want something more intellectual,” he said.
This is so darn fun. RTWT.
It ends with this:
You can buy an “Oboe Club: We Will Melt Your Face Off” t-shirt from Lewinsky or Napalm for $10, but there is a limited supply, so hurry. Also, don’t forget to check out Oboe Club at Open Mic during lunch hour, everyday.
“Oboes free the soul and open the mind,” says Lewinsky. “Guitars are for squares.”
I would love that t-shirt!
Vientos Trio performs Lesanju the Elephant (English horn, clarinet & bassoon)
The work is written by the clarinetist,Jennifer Stevenson.
Act 1
Act II
Nicely played and spoken, too. :-)
The San Francisco Opera House is exactly the same, same coffered ceiling, same sweeping balconies, but the music isn’t.
I’ve been invited to sit through 3-1/2 hours of Dr. Atomic, the new opera about Robert Oppenheimer and the first atomic bomb test. Long recitations from declassified government files and the Bhagavad Gita set to trilling, clattering, pulsing sounds, atonal explosions and lyrical flights.
You made it through Parsifal, Peterman, I keep reminding myself.
So you can buy a dress based on what this guy saw at the opera? Or something. RTWT.
Way beyond my means, though, so while it’s a lovely dress, I’m gonna let it go. (I did read up on the company and while it’s based on the Seinfeld character it’s for real.)
“Goldenttusk (huh?) likes to write lyrics to popular movies. Funny how they could all be turned into musicals after hearing what he does.
Hmmm. “Indiana Jones: The Musical” … ya think?
