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- From: Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
- Subject: Re: Wendy Carlos (was Re: Weird Al albums)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.145830.18402@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:58:30 GMT
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- In article <BzL7D1.64J@unix.amherst.edu> jmfuchs@unix.amherst.edu (JESSE MICHAEL FUCHS) writes:
- >Darrin P Cardani (darrin@engin.umich.edu) wrote:
- >> In article <1992Dec19.032538.11673@netcom.com> mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
- >> >In article <1992Dec18.090659.21183@midway.uchicago.edu> chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams) writes:
- >> >> [Wendy Carlos'] funniest recording is "Pompous Circumstances" a
- >> >>reworking of that dreadful "Dum, dum-da-dum, dum-mm dum" thing that is
- >> >>played at high-school graduations. It's on (I believe) "Walter Carlos
- >> >>by Request."
- >> >
- >> >I've always wanted to switch that tape at some graduation ceremony.
- >> >And lock the door to the sound booth. And videotape the expressions
- >> >as people start to realize that Something Is Not Quite Right.
- >> >--
- >> >Mike Van Pelt | What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth?
- >> >mvp@netcom.com | Judging from realistic simulations involving a
- >> > | sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we
- >> > | can assume it will be pretty bad. -- Dave Barry
- >>
- >>
- >> Maybe this makes me *really* demented, but I really like the original.
- >> It's the only thing that composer (why can I suddenly not remember his
- >> name?) ever did that was worth while.
- > Sir Edward Elgar? Or I am off?
- >> Darrin Cardani
- Yeah, it's Elgar; part of the five "Pomp and Circumstance" marches
- written for various coronations. But I think you'll find your last statement
- to be a minority opinion among music lovers. Elgar's numerous oratorios have
- a considerable following, to say nothing of the Cello Concerto or the Enigma
- Variations or his symphonies.....
- There is, by the way, a truly demented version of "Pomp and
- Circumstance #1" transcribed for *jazz band* by Paul Whiteman in 1924. You
- can hear it on a 2-CD set on MusicMasters that re-creates the concert where
- it was first played; it also happens to be the concert the premiered
- Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue". The banjo plunking it's way through "Land of
- Hope and Glory" is just *too* much fun.
- Maybe we need to start a thread on classical dementia, accidental or
- otherwise....>:-)>
- Chuck
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