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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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 Posted - 01/09/2007 : 21:21:10
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After looking at this junk, YouTube offered me this video, which was really refreshingly funny, especially compared to what I had just seen.
Are there any cellists in the house?
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Ricky
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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
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Posted - 01/09/2007 : 23:39:48 [Permalink]
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YO: Yes, Pachelbel's Canon is repetitive. I remember, however, one of the very first public radio classical fundraisers I did conjures up a good memory with regard to this little Baroque ditty. Every time we aired it during the drive, there were more pledge calls. And you know how important money is. And this was back when public radio wasn't rich.
If you really want to listen to an even older piece that will drive you up the friggin' wall, try La Folia. The guy or gal who wrote that was smart enough not give out his or her name, other than Anonymous.
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 01/10/2007 : 05:42:09 [Permalink]
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| NPR offered its own take on the Canon... |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 01/10/2007 : 06:32:38 [Permalink]
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I love that piece, especially the cello part. But I can sure understand how boring it might seem to be a cellist playing those eight notes over and over! That guys good. Love how he showed how much popular music has stolen from the Canon.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 01/10/2007 : 06:40:06 [Permalink]
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Cune, that NPR piece was great, too, TY!
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 01/10/2007 : 07:54:28 [Permalink]
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This is neither here nor there, but my dad always says - quite enthusiastically, to the disgust of his daughter - that the Canon in D is makeout music!
Edited to add: I can only assume that after the Canon, the couple must then whip out Ravel's Bolero. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 01/10/2007 : 08:26:58 [Permalink]
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That's so true Marf. Listen to your father!
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 01/10/2007 : 08:44:12 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by marfknox
This is neither here nor there, but my dad always says - quite enthusiastically, to the disgust of his daughter - that the Canon in D is makeout music!
My sister seems to think it's wedding music.
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Wendy
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Posted - 01/10/2007 : 09:29:03 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Siberia
My sister seems to think it's wedding music.
Great vid, too.
Your sister is right. Nothing helps a bride put one foot in front of the other better than soothing repetition. It was played at my first wedding. However, that didn't work out, so maybe it isn't good wedding music!
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Siberia
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Brazil
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Posted - 01/10/2007 : 15:00:39 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Wendy
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Originally posted by Siberia
My sister seems to think it's wedding music.
Great vid, too.
Your sister is right. Nothing helps a bride put one foot in front of the other better than soothing repetition. It was played at my first wedding. However, that didn't work out, so maybe it isn't good wedding music!
Nor did my sister's... |
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JohnOAS
SFN Regular
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Posted - 01/10/2007 : 18:10:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Siberia
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Originally posted by Wendy
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Originally posted by Siberia
My sister seems to think it's wedding music.
Great vid, too.
Your sister is right. Nothing helps a bride put one foot in front of the other better than soothing repetition. It was played at my first wedding. However, that didn't work out, so maybe it isn't good wedding music!
Nor did my sister's...
Knowing how much everyone loves anecdotal evidence, I thought I'd better throw mine in.
That piece was played at our wedding, and things are still great with my marriage. It's only been a little over 10 years though, so maybe it's a slow-acting curse. As a further point, conclusively proving the existence of some deity (I'm not fussy about which), the string trio that played at my wedding were playing in the dining room of a hotel we were staying at on our first anniversary, some couple of hundred kilometres away.
My theory is that it's the horrible music played by DJ's at weddings that causes divorce, murder-suicide sprees and, quite possibly, global warming. That's why I pre-recorded almost all the music for my wedding.
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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
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Posted - 01/10/2007 : 23:58:23 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by marfknox
This is neither here nor there, but my dad always says - quite enthusiastically, to the disgust of his daughter - that the Canon in D is makeout music!
Edited to add: I can only assume that after the Canon, the couple must then whip out Ravel's Bolero.
YO! Please forgive me Marfknox, but I'm wondering if, just before
the Ravel that a short Baroque piece by Johann Joseph Fux might be in order?
I'm not sure if Bo Derek likes Fux as much Ravel's Bolero, however.
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 01/11/2007 : 01:34:13 [Permalink]
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Actually, I worked for Pachelbel for 28 years. They are now part of AT&T.
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 01/11/2007 : 06:36:12 [Permalink]
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| Hey, I like Ravel's Bolero. One of my favorites. Especially amusing when it's blaring so loud as to frighten the neighbours... |
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"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 01/11/2007 : 07:14:13 [Permalink]
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I love the old "Fantasia"-like cartoon movie, "Allegro Non Tropo." One segment illustrates evolution, starting with an odd case of panspermia. All to Ravel's Bolero.
Another favorite soundtrack is Black Orpheus ("Orfeu Negro" in Portuguese). It's the Orpheus and Eurydice myth retold in the slums of Rio, in the midst of Carnival, and to the tunes of the first Bossa Nova music. Wonderful movie!
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