[Rhodes22-list] One of My Favorites

Slim Chance slimsails at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 08:39:56 EDT 2011 

And this is pure genius:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhF-7suDsM

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Slim Chance <slimsails at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> So many replies to Tchaikovsky... Here's a conductor doing the 1812
> overture:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGuBxdgIYvU
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Lynn Hoffman <drfood55 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> (aspiring rhodes owner here)
>>
>> sleeping beauty, copping out? maybe swan lake was a sellout?  okay,
>> nutcracker was probably done to get money for drugs. but is there anything
>> more hypnotic on a stage than swan lake?
>> and thanks slim for that note about russian music. i was raised by wolves
>> as
>> far as music goes and that helped me understand something.
>>
>> lynn
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:07 PM, David Bradley <dwbrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for that lesson.
>> >
>> > We saw Tchaikovsky's ballet, "The Sleeping Beauty," danced by the
>> Stamford
>> > Ballet on Friday evening.  It was a local production with local kids in
>> the
>> > company, and professionals from NYC and elsewhere in the few lead roles.
>> > What great music and dancing.  The artistic director talked about
>> > Tchaikovsky "copping out" by doing a ballet but he didn't care.  A rebel
>> in
>> > his time I guess.  Wonderful for us now.
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Slim Chance <slimsails at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hello, Lee.  It's hard to imagine and silly to think about Foxworthy
>> > taking
>> > > anything so seriously as playing the flute in the orchestra, but he's
>> all
>> > I
>> > > could think about while watching that guy.  So 70s!
>> > >
>> > > Re Tchaikovsky, The Russians tried not to like him because his
>> > compositions
>> > > were so Germanic -- sort of like Beethoven -- and not at all Russian.
>> >  They
>> > > saw him as something of a turncoat.  In fact he spurred a movement of
>> > other
>> > > Russian composers, e.g., Rimsky-Korsekov, Mussorgsky, Borodin,
>> Balakirev
>> > > and
>> > > Qui to form what became know as the "Mighty Five" who undertook to
>> write
>> > > specifically Russian music.  Nevertheless Tchaikovsky continued to win
>> > over
>> > > the hearts of people with his wonderful sense of melody, imagination,
>> > > orchestration, etc. and the nation was rocked by his death at age 53.
>>  A
>> > > controversy to this day, some say he died of Cholera and others say
>> > suicide
>> > > because of his admitted homosexuality.  But, yeah, I love his stuff
>> too!
>> > >
>> > > A little tidbit on typical Russian melody:  The Russian language has
>> no
>> > > articles -- "a" or "the" -- so when we say "The cup is on a table"
>> they
>> > > would say "Cup is on table."   Western European melodies, both folk
>> > > melodies
>> > > and formal classical melodies we often use "pick-up" notes. For
>> example
>> > in
>> > > "Happy Birthday"  the "Happy" is a pick-up and "Birth" comes in on
>> beat
>> > > one.  Or in "Amazing Grace" the "A" is a pick-up and "Maz" is beat
>> one.
>> > > Still with me?  The technical musical term for this is called an
>> > anacrusis.
>> > > When we say "The cup is on a table" the '"the" is like a pick-up and
>> > > "table"
>> > > is beat one.  Russian melodies rarely use pick-up notes in their
>> melodies
>> > > and most often begin right on beat one so that  parallels their
>> language
>> > as
>> > > it should.  In "Cup is on table"  "Cup" is beat one.  Tchaikovsky's
>> > > melodies
>> > > are filled with pick-ups therfore very un-Russian.
>> > >
>> > > Class dismissed.
>> > >
>> > > Slimsky Slimsnakovskya  8-)
>> > >
>> > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Leland <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Slim,
>> > > >
>> > > > Excellent--thanks for sharing.  "You may be a redneck" if you
>> associate
>> > > > Foxworthy with Bernstein, although the resemblance is uncanny.
>> > > >
>> > > > We had two classes in school where they would take a picture of each
>> > > class
>> > > > and if someone was in your seat every time you received an "A" and
>> for
>> > > each
>> > > > class you missed you could make it up with a short paper.  The
>> classes
>> > > were
>> > > > Theater Appreciation and Music Listen Lab.  Unfortunately I
>> mistakenly
>> > > > enrolled in Music Appreciation which was absolutely one of the most
>> > > > difficult and time-consuming classes I ever took.  In retrospect it
>> may
>> > > > have
>> > > > been the most useful class because I've spent far more time
>> listening
>> > to
>> > > > classical music than using anything else I learned in college.  I
>> still
>> > > > love
>> > > > Rock-n-Roll but it's tough to beat Tchaikovsky's greatest hits.
>> > > >
>> > > > Lee
>> > > > 1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
>> > > > Kent Island, MD
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Slim Chance wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Some of you remember me as a rocker but I grew up with a classical
>> > > > > background.  Back in the the 60s There was a weekly TV program
>> called
>> > > > > Leonard Bernstein's Young Peoples' Concert which I never missed.
>>  I
>> > > > > believe
>> > > > > LB to be arguably the greatest American musician of all.  Maybe
>> Louis
>> > > > > Armstrong, Bernstein, Armstrong, Bernstein Armstrong.  Obviously
>> for
>> > > > > different reasons.  But check this out and please also watch the
>> > second
>> > > > > part
>> > > > > where he conducts the reprise with his face alone.  This video
>> also
>> > > > > features
>> > > > > Jeff Foxworthy on flute!
>> > > > >
>> > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlURvraEmeY
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>>
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