Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Sonata for Piano and Dogs (true story) Message-ID: <3154@nsc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 01:46:42 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.3154 Posted: Thu Aug 22 01:46:42 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 14:47:10 EDT References: <4135@alice.UUCP> <543@unisoft.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Organization: Uncle Chuqui's Lemming Farm Lines: 24 Summary: In article <543@unisoft.UUCP> pc@unisoft.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes: >> A friend of mine has a dog who performed at Carnegie Recital Hall. > >I once attended a concert put on by a number of cars. They had been auditioned >according to their horn-pitch and a three pice work written for them (after >the composer had autitioned them). The composer stood on a pile of tires >and conducted them with a screw-driver. They got a standing ovation and >played an encore .... On a serious note (e minor above high c) if you like this stuff, find PDQ Bach (really Peter Schickele at USC) and take a listen. Other bizarre but interesting music was done by Spike Jones and his City Slickers many years ago, and the BBC had a person in the 50's (most of his pressings are unfortunately out of circulation) called Hoffnung who, among other things, arranged things for orchestra and hoover vacuum cleaner. His rendition of the Mazurka #49 in A minor (Op 68, no 2) by Chopin is truly inspiring, if only because he succeeds in taking a nice, delicate piano piece and doing in with a quartet of tuba's... -- Chuq Von Rospach nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA {decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui Son, you're mixing ponderables again