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Monday, June 17, 2024
Classical corner
J.S. Bach's Little Fugue in G Minor - played on recorders.
Bonus! What if Bach had written that tune played in the cantina in the first Star Wars movie? Or Chopin? Or Oscar Peterson?
I enjoy those "What is Bach wrote..." pieces. One CD I've had for years in "What if Mozart wrote 'Born to Be Wild?'" On the one hand it's clever and amusing, on the other hand it shows just how brilliant those old dead German guys were at writing music.
And that doesn't even cover modern songwriters who incorporate classical themes into their pieces. Such as, for example, everything Eric Carmen ever did. Or John Lennon playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata backwards on Because.
I enjoy those "What is Bach wrote..." pieces. One CD I've had for years in "What if Mozart wrote 'Born to Be Wild?'" On the one hand it's clever and amusing, on the other hand it shows just how brilliant those old dead German guys were at writing music.
ReplyDeleteAnd that doesn't even cover modern songwriters who incorporate classical themes into their pieces. Such as, for example, everything Eric Carmen ever did. Or John Lennon playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata backwards on Because.
I didn't know they even made recorders in those sizes (my kids had plastic recorders in grade school, thank goodness they were small).
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