Police find 63kg of cocaine inside concert grand
NewsAt St-Félix-de-Valois, near Joliette, home of Canada’s largest classical music festival, Royal Canadian Mounted Police found 63 kilograms of Cocaine inside a Grand Piano that was being delivered to the town.
The piano (pictured) is presently unplayable.
Four men have been arrested.
gee I didn’t know that if I stuff 63 kg of cocaine in a piano, the piano would be unplayable
Isn’t that required in Cage’s “433 Hours”? No, that’s mushrooms…
That’s not to be sniffed at
Big C to Middle C
Reminds me of the time during my school days when several
students snuck into a professor’s studio during the night and filled one of the 9-foots with (hopefully non-buttered) popcorn.
Word is: the opening chord the next morning was a dull thud.
The way to hide cocaine in a piano is to replace the white keys not the strings. Oy Vey.
If it was a Bösendörfer Imperial they could have loaded more, maybe 80 kg.
On the program:
“Presented by Yamaha
It has developed into a Lanaudière tradition: the summer reunion of two of Quebec’s most acclaimed musicians, to whom we owe some of the finest highlights of our Festival in recent years. This time around, they concentrate on not just one, but two outrageously demanding piano concertos by Franz Liszt, performed back-to-back… revel(ling) in their challenges with uncanny ease…
ARTISTS
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor”
I ain’t sayin’ nothin’, I’s just reportin’ the program notes as written.
Canada’s largest music festival? First I’ve heard of it.
Name a bigger one
Banff
Could this mean you’re a bit stuck in the anglophone mediasphere?
Yes, it could. I used to go to Montreal, and sometimes elsewhere in Quebec, about 20 times a year for cultural events, but it has been a while, and I never did go to Joliette.
Somehow see more cultural action at Toronto’s Harbourfront or in the two Ottawa Chamber Music (and Beyond) festivals.
Anyway, if it’s on now it would conflict with the Tour de France. Not to mention the Open.
Here’s what I suspect that the Festival de Lanaudière actually is: Canada’s largest summer festival of orchestral music. I don’t know that for certain, but the better-known Canadian festivals that I can think of focus on chamber music.
In any case, I first heard of the festival at least 30 years ago, and I’m not even Canadian.
I’ve heard of getting high on music, but this is ridiculous.
I knew when I read this news item that the comments would be priceless.
Finally, someone knows how to make money in classical music, instead of begging for it…ha…ha
There’s prepared piano, and then there’s prepared pianist….
Sad really. Now, it’ll only be fit for playing John Blow.
Program pairing: The Nose Between the Notes & The Blow Before the Bow
Better for Colombian marches than Hungarian Dances.
Festival programme suggestions:
Elgar, Cockaigne
Shostakovich, The Nose
Adès, Powder Her Face
It plays the piano transcription of Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture with pumped-up vigour!
Glenn Gould’s old piano?