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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2011-01-09 23:46
"Moxart?" Ahem
Jeff
“Everyone discovers their own way of destroying themselves, and some people choose the clarinet.” Kalman Opperman, 1919-2010
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2011-01-10 13:15
Well it's a surprise. The Enigma Variations and the cello concerto aren't well known as far as I know.
Missing from the top 10 would be Mendelssohn's Italian Sym.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-01-10 13:25
Moxart -- oh, yes, that's the pseudonym for Max Ort, the performance artist famous for exhibiting the world's largest table scrap on December 26, 2010. (His massive table scrap experiments explain why magnetic north is shifting so rapidly, in case you wondered about that.)
On New Year's Eve, switching to his musician's hat as Mox Art, he then lifted the scrap with an industrial rocket he'd disguised as a non-functioning representation of a quintillion-contra clarinet. (Max Ort is an American; therefore his quintillion is the cardinal number of 10 to the 18th power, not 10 to the 30th power as in England, luckily for us all -- or so he claims.) Just above the earth's atmosphere, the quintillion-contra clarinet rocket ejected the record-breaking ort out the bell.
However, instead of igniting and disintegrating spectacularly on re-entry as planned, the scrap failed to explode as expected and held together just long enough to create the massive sonic boom (which authorities confused with the grand finale of a New Year's fireworks display) that caused all those redwing blackbirds to fall out of the sky (in case you were wondering about that, too). NASA has cautioned observers not to eat any of the heavily charred ort fragments, which should be regarded as meteorites rather than leftover fruitcake.
Meanwhile, boosted by ejection of the ort, the quintillion-contra clarinet rocket itself continues on its way toward Mars, unfortunately for the inhabitants of the secret colony up there (or down there, depending on one's point of view).
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Post Edited (2011-01-10 13:29)
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2011-01-10 13:34
I wish they had a voting link to *eliminate* things. I would gladly vote (or even pay) NOT to hear The Lark Ascending. One minute of background-quality music and 19 minutes of senile muttering. Will the thing EVER get off the ground?
Ken Shaw
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Author: luca1
Date: 2011-01-10 13:37
Not such a surprise....UK station, UK news article. Elgar is HUGE in the UK. What I'm surprised at is that the 4 seasons or The Planets didn't make the top 10.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2011-01-10 17:29
I'm shocked that "Wozzeck" didn't make their list. What's wrong with those people? They must have wax in their ears. I say we send them a case of cotton swabs.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2011-01-10 17:38
They're Britons, David. They drink warm beer, drive on the wrong side of the road and find big-bore clarinets all the rage. Even mature men wear braces, and suspenders are reserved to the female half of the population (unless you happen to be a Frank N Furter impersonator).
So don't act surprised... ![[toast]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley15.gif)
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Ben
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Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2011-01-10 19:04
What you have to realise is that Classic FM is actually a commercial pop classical channel that plays a limited number of pieces ad nauseum until even their target audience gets sick of them.
So it's no wonder that the "top 10" reflect whatever they are currently pushing (not sure now as I can't stand the channel).
Some years ago they played some turgid 3rd symphony (sorrowful songs or something) for months on end and it made their top 10.
Fortunately it seems to have dropped down list now.
We do still have the BBC who do a pretty good job for serious music in general but in keeping with modern trends even their famed "Radio 3" channel often now sounds like it's apeing Classic FM in pursuit of the "Yoof audience".
and Hey - I love warm beer, beats that chemical Budweiser etc hands down.
If you are ever this way I'll take you to a small pub just a few miles from home that brews its own beers - world beaters**
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Author: salzo
Date: 2011-01-10 19:43
Bob wrote:
"Well it's a surprise. The Enigma Variations and the cello concerto aren't well known as far as I know."
I think it is a misspelling- "Enema Variations" is the correct spelling.
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Author: Chris_C ★2017
Date: 2011-01-10 21:45
In the UK, it isn't just the audience of the "popular classics" station that will think the Elgar cello concerto well into the top ten. If it is not well known in the colonies [ducking the flames and abuse] then pehaps you should listen more to it - and preferably watch the Jacqueline du Pre video....
Chris
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Author: chris moffatt
Date: 2011-01-11 02:08
All that Beethoven and no Bruckner? No Scriabin? No Janacek? No Messiaen? None in the top 300! No Milhaud? very pedestrian selection.
But Norman is right, I remember hearing this station when I was assigned in the UK a few years back. Then they were playing Chopin's #2 Concerto - over and over and over and over again. Of course only the second movement, the Romance Larghetto - I guess the Allegro and Rondo were too demanding for their audience..... I see it's slipped way down the list now
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Author: luca1
Date: 2011-01-11 06:27
"What you have to realise is that Classic FM is actually a commercial pop classical channel that plays a limited number of pieces ad nauseum until even their target audience gets sick of them."
exactly my point .... and why I'm shocked 4 seasons & planets didn't appear ..... I was not uk bashing, but stressing that "context" is everything ......in this case a uk one ......and so Elgar turned up ....a lot .....
The really interesting question is, what is it about the Mozart Adagio that appeals to the brain-numbed masses?
No, really, what is it? ...
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Author: kilo
Date: 2011-01-11 14:58
I wonder how different the USA version would be? This list seems a bit anglo-centric with the Elgar and Vaughan Williams. The top spot would probably be the same and I think Handel might make the list, "Water Music" or "Messiah". Other favorites would be identified as themes from TV and movies — like "The Lone Ranger" or "Elvira Madigan". I'd imagine there'd be some Tchaikovsky, too.
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Author: Brenda ★2017
Date: 2011-01-11 20:23
But what can we say for educating the new generation coming along? Any new musician going through the Royal Conservatory will be required to learn and play these old favourites.
I've been making a list for my son and daughter-in-law as suggestions to play for their small boys. Hopefully by playing the music when waking up or during the day they'll build a repertoire of music that they can go back to emotionally as they mature.j Many of these are on my list as well.
I also have on the "grandson's" list:
Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings
Tchaikovsky - Memories of a Dear Place
Rachmoninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Jacob do Bandolim - Doce de Coco (for clarinet, guitar & cello, BTW!)
Chopin - 2nd piano concerto
Elgar - Salut D'Amour
Grieg Piano Concerto
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