We have a double reed, I know, but only one person plays it at a time.
But watch this:
Okay … this made me laugh (thanks Chris Foley!) … although the metronome seems “off” to me. (Am I wrong?) But just watch … hysterical
But of course YouTube shows us other videos we might find interesting, and I guess the above reaction isn’t unique:
“We’ll sing about rainbows, they’re such a great thing!”
“Pussycats pussycats, why do you care?”
“The song is improved with the meows we share!”
I should really save this since I know very few read this blog on weekends, but I simply can’t wait! (Thanks to Pam L. Pecha for putting this up on Facebook.)
The real poem, for those of you who didn’t grow up with this:
“Pussycat pussycat, where have you been?”
“I’ve been up to London to visit the Queen.”
“Pussycat pussycat, what did you dare?”
“I frightened a little mouse under her chair”
“MEOWW!”
Shaquille O’Neal conducts the Boston Pops. Does he remind you at all of a bobble head? I hope they make one of him with a baton!
I know it’s an advertisement for T-Mobile, but I don’t let that bug me:
There are a number of singers from various groups: The Swingle Singers, The Magnets, The Boxettes, The House Jacks. View the entire list here.
(Thanks to A Cappella News for bringing this to my attention!)
I would like this done the next time I get home from a trip, please!
And yes, it kind of made me a bit weepy. I’m silly that way.
And … how ’bout some hugs. I know these are old, but you can find a TON of them on YouTube:
Korea
Vienna, Austria
China
Manila, Philippines
Mexico
Uganda
We can all use more hugs.
I know.
Okay then …
I just can’t see my mom wearing this, but I’ll leave it up to her!
Maybe, instead, I need a cap that reads, “Proud oboist of a mother” or something.
Except I really fear an over abundance of pride. So maybe not.
(I’d put this image up here, but I couldn’t figure out how to do that. Sorry!)
in cowboy boots!
I just can’t resist posting this. It made me smile. Maybe it’ll make you smile too. If not, well, too bad, eh?!
Now of course some of you may not even know the pop tune, so here’s it is:
Listeners of two South Florida radio stations got a surprise when their Christian and classical music was interrupted with rap and profane language.
On Thursday, authorities found out why: A pirate station was using a nearby frequency.
RTWT
Aw shoot, now I really want to go to Disneyland! I hear this music and I hear the sounds and smell the smells of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. I be cravin’ a trip to the DLand for a while, me mateys. Arrr. Speakin’ a which:
I love it!
They’ve started to harmonize!
Bruce Hembd of Horn Matters (oh REALLY?!) brought this to my attention. Thanks, Bruce!
Sardonika’s bid to become a big time player in the video game industry was dealt a major blow today when Trillvision, the makers of Oboe Hero, declared bankruptcy.
CEO Cyril Richey said he has filed Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Chapter 22, The Prologue and Acknowledgments.
Modeled after the wildly popular Guitar Hero, Oboe Hero players use a reed-instrument simulator to match notes that scroll across a video screen.
It was not the instrument that doomed sales, but the limited repertoire of Mozart’s Concerto in C major, “Hang On Sloopy” and “I’m A Little Tea Pot”.
“We thought they would fly off the shelves,” lamented Richey. “But this year we’ve only sold two. And one of them was returned by an irate teen who’d received it as a gift from his shut-in aunt.”
;-)
Sonnet Movement No. 2 by Camille Saint-Saëns.
Yep. A Saint-Saëns sonnet. Cool! Not sure if it was Shakespearean, Spenserian or Petrarchan, though.
A Saint-Saëns Sonnet
I think to play a sonnet by Saint-Saëns
would be a thing I wouldn’t find too rough.
It’s easier than writing one because
to rhyme with that composer’s name is tough!
But since I thought the challenge was to hard
I had to go ahead and try the task.
I’ll bravely go ahead, let down my guard,
but please don’t laugh! (Is that too much to ask?)
Eight lines are done, I’ve only six to go.
And now it’s nine so surely I’m on track
to finish this, but I can tell, you know,
that you are laughing right behind my back.
Okay, this wasn’t easy but I’m done.
I’m gonna dump this sonnet here and run.
How playing in band can lead to a life of drugs. Beware!
