Wanted: Nude cellist for wedding (gender specific)
mainThe following ad has appeared on Craigslist.
It is not an equal opportunity vacancy, being limited to female applicants.
It is also musically illiterate (anyone know a concerto by a beatified Irishman?). And possibly a sign of our times.
Image: The celebrated modernist Charlotte Moorman (1933-1991)
Seeking a naked female cellist for wedding
compensation: 500 or more
Seeking a cellist to play at my wedding at nudist resort in North Georgia. Classical music. This is a serious ad. Paying serious money. You really do need to be able to play the cello. If you can play the St Sean concerto you’re hired
The ‘beatified Irishman’ could be Stanford ( who didn’t write a cello concerto, only a violin concerto); or Moeran, who DID write a cello concerto but who was neither Irish ( although he loved Ireland) nor ‘beatified’. This latter somewhat inappropriate word in this context is probably a silly substitute for ‘knighted’.
Sounds more like ‘benighted’ to me.
Pretty sure “St. Sean” is a semi-literate attempt to write “Saint-Saëns.”
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Saint-Saens, surely…
Or could be Saint-Saens, since the Craigslist guy had probably heard it said and not seen it written. Also since it’s a pretty well-known cello concerto. Pretty sure “beatified Irishman” was a joke based on the misspelling, Will.
Image: Did this lady always play the cello the wrong way round, or just when she took her clothes off?
Neither….
Before: http://agora8.org/pulsepro/data/img/gallery/Kmb-ch1/3KM.jpg
After: http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/cellist-arrested-for-performing-in-topless-show-cellist-charlotte-picture-id124391850
As to why she appears to be playing the cello the wrong way round, I suggest the following reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-lens_reflex_camera
SLR cameras don’t reverse the images. They just let you view the subject through the actual lens that’s taking the photo instead of through a separate viewfinder.
It’s computer carelessness with JPEGs that reverses photos. Also non-musical picture-editors in magazines. They quite like reversing a cellist on a right-hand page so the player faces the centre-fold instead of seeming to look off the page, which is weak design.
If a photo of, say, the conductor Donald Runnicles comes their way, there can be a problem. Unusually, his left hand holds the baton. If an art designer reverses the image it still comes out wrong. Maybe a bonus point for trying though.
I am sure the “beatified Irishman” comment is meant to be a joke
If it is indeed the Saint-Songs con-shirt-ho – or rather sans shirt…oh, will the accompanist(s) also need to be naked? Amazing what nudists resort to!
The carefree mood as provided by nudism, opens-up the space for musical worries.
Channelling Charlotte…even if the ad does not indicate what the cellist may wear.
If somebody is beatified he or she is called “Blessed”. A saint is typically said to have been canonized, though he or she may also have been beatified at an earlier stage in the process.
It’s rather strange that a naturist should specify that the cellist must be female, since this suggests that sexual and/or aesthetic factors are being brought into consideration. It has always been my understanding that genuine naturists take no sexual interest in the naked human body and that they regard all body types with indifference.
It’s like the catholic difference between theory and practice.
Where is her G string
Where indeed? Wear or not to wear? Should one be worn? Should one warn her that her G string will be worn out by Saint-Sawn’s so-low performance?
This music will be a nudiscovery.
Possibly the client had heard of Sir Thomas Beecham’s celebrote remark: “Madam, between your legs you have an instrument capable of giving pleasure……….” In this case the Saint would be Sean and not heard. This is what we really nude to know.
I should add, knowing the predilictions of nudists these days, that the Saint would have to be Shorn. Sorry, just an attempt to razor titter, but this is a subject to be disgust in another ah-tickle.
Nearly as good a joke as that lovely Irish singer, Marie O’Lanza! And I can laugh as I’m Irish! But as for the cellist …
Will give an entirely new meaning to Sir Thomas Beecham’s line, “Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it!”
I declare Mr. Davis the winner of this competition. He’s not at all clothes-minded.