QUOTE(the fieryangel @ Thu 10th February 2011, 2:15pm)
Back in music school, when somebody practiced this, everybody smoking outside the practice rooms would all chime in at the beginning with "THIS...IS THE PIECE OF DEATH!"
sing along and see if that doesn't work....
Damn, damn. Now I can't play the bit of this that I know without thinking that.
Think of how many fairly nice pieces of music are diminished as cliches by association with something else, often films. For me:
William Tell --- The Loooone Ranger
Flight of the Bumblebee -- The Green Hornet
1805 Overture --- The only cereal that's shot from guns!
Meditation from Thais-- one dozen boring weddings (IMG:
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Guadalcanal March from Rogers Victory at Sea --- Garg, Richard Nixon's favorite march.
Der Landesvater bit of Brahms' Academic Festival Overture-- Animal House
Rachmaninoff 2nd piano concerto-- Full Moon and Empty Arms
That Handel Sarabande (noooos! Barry Lyndon/O'Neal (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/tearinghairout.gif) It means having to say I'm sorry!)
Also Sprach Zarathustra -- Man-apes and tapirs and man-apes and tapirs...
Copeland Rodeo Hoedown -- Beef (IMG:
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Beethoven's 6th-- Soylent Green euthanasia. A satyr or too from Fantasia.
Dance of the Hours-- Hippos in tutus, Camp Grenada
Anything else from Fantasia: Fantasia (IMG:
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Hmmm, I see two Stanley Kubrick films up there, and it comes to me that besides the musical "synesthesia," there are quite a lot of images and associations from Kubrick films that I sort of wish were not stamped forever into my brain. All the way from the evil French army in the Paths of Glory to Strangelove ("We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when.."), Sparticus, Clockwork Orange.
(IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/wacko.gif) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. (IMG:
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