What it really feels like to play great composers
mainYou will either love this or loathe it.
Whatever you do, stay with it as far as Bruckner.
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Loved it — and really appreciated it after the horror of yesterday’s synagogue massacre —
Thanks so much, Norman!
It’s amusing, but the Bruckner – Mahler juxtaposition is ridiculously misleading.
I think someone has had a “sense of humour” bypass!
I don’t play violin but I think these guys are great.
Loved it. “I can see Finland….hory shet!”
LOL. Hilarious – thanks so much 😉
The Bruckner reminded me of the story of complaints by certain Berlin Staatskapelle string players the other year who were unhappy re: their New York residence when they played ALL nine Bruckner symphonies under Barenboim – within just a few days.
High chance of repetitive strain injury with all those tremoloes (actually, probably hard for the brass doing the nine-set so close to each other)
Lorin Maazel once conducted a marathon of all nine Beethoven symphonies during one day, with the New Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall in London. A bizarre feat but far fewer tremolos than Bruckner.
The funny fact is that Bruckner actually composed ELEVEN symphonies, not nine. The “first symphony” was in reality the third one he completed. Thus an “all nine Bruckner symphonies” is a meaningless thing.
Cute & fun. The Mahler one especially was dead-on 🙂
This was adorable, although I’m sure sure quite what happened at the very end.
He tries not to burst into tears, but fails.
Love it, love it, love it!
I sent the link to this page to my wife, who is a middle school orchestra teacher.
Her kids will love it too!
Thanks, Norman, for putting this up…. you made my day.
Hey, they left Bach out! Although they mention him. As famous great composers go, maybe they’ll make a “part 2” with Vivaldi, Schubert, Schumann, Smetana, Dvorak, Nielsen, Ravel, Schönberg, Berg, Bartók, Prokofiev, and the aforementioned Bach (Johann Sebastian). Over to you, lads!