And here is the link
http://www.videosift.com/video/Phone-Concerto

1. Beatles - I Wanna Be Your Man
2. Robyn - Eclipse
3. Police - King of Pain
4. Stravinsky - Piano Concerto (mvt 3)
5. A-Ha - Living Daylights (James Bond Theme) (embarrassing)
6. The Statler Brothers - Flowers On The Wall
7. Vaughn Williams - Symphony 5 (mvt 4)
8. Jerry Goldsmith - Carol Ann's Theme from Poltergeist
9. Harry Connick jr. - Just A Boy
10. Malajube - Montreal -40C

Noyce! If you think this is clever you should check out the Crab Canon from my most favourite book in the world Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadetr.

Crab Canon
----------

Achilles and the Tortoise happen upon each other
in the park one day while strolling.

Tortoise: Good day, Mr. A.
Achilles: Why, same to you.
Tortoise: So nice to run into you.
Achilles: That echoes my thoughts.
Tortoise: And it's a perfect day for a walk. I think I'll be walking home
soon.
Achilles: Oh, really? I guess there's nothing better for you than walking.
Tortoise: Incidentally, you're looking in fine fettle these days, I must
say.
Achilles: Thank you very much.
Tortoise: Not at all. Here, care for one of my cigars?
Achilles: Oh, you are such a philistine. In this area, the Dutch contribu-
tions are of markedly inferior taste, don't you think?
Tortoise: I disagree, in this case. But speaking of taste, I finally saw that
Crab Canon by your favorite artist, M.C. Escher, in a gallery the other
day, and I fully appreciate the beauty and ingenuity with which he
made one single theme mesh with itself going both backwards and
forwards. But I am afraid I will always feel Bach is superior to Escher.
Achilles: I don't know. But one thing for certain is that I don't worry about
arguments of taste. De gustibus non est disputandum.
Tortoise: Tell me, what's it like to be your age? Is it true that one has no
worries at all?
Achilles: To be precise one has no frets.
Tortoise: Oh, well, it's all the same to me.
Achilles: Fiddle. It makes a big difference, you know.
Tortoise: Say, don't you play the guitar?
Achilles: That's my good friend. He often plays, the fool. But I myself
wouldn't touch a guitar with a ten-foot pole.
(Suddenly the Crab, appearing from out of nowhere, wanders up ex-
citedly, pointing to a rather prominent black eye.)

Crab: Hallo! Hullo! What's up? What's new? You see this bump, this
from Warsaw - a collosal bear of a man - playing a lute. He was three
meters tall, if I'm a day. I mosey on up to the chap, reach skyward and
manage to tap him on the knee, saying, "Pardon me, sir, but you are
Pole-luting our park with your mazurkas." But WOW! he had no sense
of humor - not a bit, not a wit - and POW! - he lets loose and belts me
one, smack in the eye! Were it in my nature, I would crab up a storm,
but in the time-honored tradition of my species, I backed off. After all,
when we walk forwards, we move backwards. It's in our genes, you
know, turning round and round. That reminds me - I've always
wondered, "which came first - the Crab or the Gene?" That
is to say, "Which came last - the Gene, or the Crab?" I'm always
turning things round and round, you know. It's in our genes, after
all. When we walk backwards we move forwards. Ah me, oh my!
I must lope along on my merry way - so off I go on such a fine day.
Sing "ho!" for the life of a Crab! TATA! Ole!

(And he disappears as suddenly as he arrived.)

Tortoise: That's my good friend. He often plays, the fool. But I myself
wouldn't touch a ten-foot Pole with a guitar.
Achilles: Say, don't you play the guitar?
Tortoise: Fiddle. It makes a big difference, you know.
Achilles: Oh, well, it's all the same to me.
Tortoise: To be precise one has no frets.
Achilles: Tell me, what's it like to be your age? Is it true that one has no
worries at all?
Tortoise: I don't know. But one thing for certain is that I don't worry about
arguments of taste. Disputandum non est de gustibus.
Achilles: I disagree, in this case. But speaking of taste, I finally heard that
Crab Canon by your favorite composer, J.S. Bach, in a concert the
other day, and I fully appreciate the beauty and ingenuity with which
he made one single theme mesh with itself going both backwards and
forwards. But I am afraid I will always feel Escher is superior to Bach.
Tortoise: Oh, you are such a philistine. In this area, the Dutch contribu-
tions are of markedly inferior taste, don't you think?
Achilles: Not at all. Here, care for one of my cigars?
Tortoise: Thank you very much.
Achilles: Incidentally, you're looking in fine fettle these days, I must
say.
Tortoise: Oh, really? I guess there's nothing better for you than walking.
Achilles: And it's a perfect day for a walk. I think I'll be walking home
soon.
Tortoise: That echoes my thoughts.
Achilles: So nice to run into you.
Tortoise: Why, same to you.
Achilles: Good day, Mr. A.

I have two actually. Neither are nearly as nice as the one on the vid.

In reply to this comment by critttter:
I don't think I've ever heard a tuned toy piano before...

Haha, Guiseppe Torelli's "Concerto Grosso In B Flat Major" was playing when I watched this video and it fit it surprisingly well

Didn't really like the piece itself, but I know how hard quartets are, so voting up.

Once I went to a fancy concerto by Kim Dong Kyu when I was in Korea and pretended to like some wanna-be quartets.

Off sync, different amplitude etc etc. They were so caught up playing the piece fast and furious that they forgot to coordinate with each other. And yet, the audience cheered, because they didn't really give a shit about the music. They were just so happy pretending to be high class, enjoying this lovely western art etc etc.

Terrible, terrible night for me. My cousin thought I was complaining too much that night. I say I was justified. UGH!

my favourite classical composer. check out Piano concerto in G Major. my fave

1. What's Opera, Doc? (Warner Bros./1957)
2. Duck Amuck (Warner Bros./1953)
3. The Band Concert (Disney/1935)
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (Warner Bros./1953)
5. One Froggy Evening (Warner Bros./1956)
6. Gertie the Dinosaur (Winsor McCay/1914)
7. Red Hot Riding Hood (MGM/1943)
8. Porky in Wackyland (Warner Bros./1938)
9. Gerald McBoing Boing (UPA]/1951)
10. King-Size Canary (MGM/1947)
11. Three Little Pigs (Disney/1933)
12. Rabbit of Seville (Warner Bros./1950)
13. Steamboat Willie (Disney/1928)
14. The Old Mill (Disney/1937)
15. Bad Luck Blackie (MGM/1949)
16. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Warner Bros./1946)
17. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (Fleischer/1936)
18. The Skeleton Dance (Disney/1929)
19. Snow White (1933 cartoon) (Fleischer/1933)
20. Minnie the Moocher (Fleischer/1932)
21. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (Warner Bros./1943)
22. Der Fuehrer's Face (Disney/1943)
23. Little Rural Riding Hood (MGM/1949)
24. The Tell-Tale Heart (UPA/1953)
25. The Big Snit (National Film Board of Canada/1985)
26. Brave Little Tailor (Disney/1938)
27. Clock Cleaners (Disney/1937)
28. Northwest Hounded Police (MGM/1946)
29. Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (Disney/1953)
30. Rabbit Seasoning (Warner Bros./1952)
31. The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Warner Bros./1950)
32. The Cat Came Back (National Film Board Of Canada/1988)
33. Superman (Fleischer/1941)
34. You Ought To Be in Pictures (Warner Bros./1940)
35. Ali Baba Bunny (Warner Bros./1957)
36. Feed the Kitty (Warner Bros./1952)
37. Bimbo's Initiation (Fleischer/1931)
38. Bambi Meets Godzilla (International Rocketship/1969)
39. Little Red Riding Rabbit (Warner Bros./1941)
40. Peace on Earth (MGM/1939)
41. Rooty Toot Toot (UPA/1952)
42. The Cat Concerto (MGM/1947)
43. The Barber of Seville (Lantz/1944)
44. The Man Who Planted Trees (National Film Board Of Canada/1987)
45. Book Revue (Warner Bros./1946)
46. Quasi at the Quackadero (Cruikshank/1975)
47. Corny Concerto (Warner Bros./1943)
48. Unicorn in the Garden (UPA/1953)
49. The Dover Boys (Warner Bros./1942)
50. Felix in Hollywood (Sullivan/1923)

first time you see something difficult done by a human: impressive.
millionth time you see it done: not impressive.

there is a difference between creativity and copying. for example one million people can play a concerto on the violin really well, by reading the music, but there's only one Tchaikovsky.

there is a difference between creativity and difficulty. for example it is very difficult to run a marathon but it isn't in any way creative. I would still be impressed if someone ran 1000 miles but i wouldn't call it art.

OK? understand now? sorry for making a fine point instead of upvoting yet another boring speedpainting.

WB made and released a Bugs Bunny animation the same year as this with the same plot. Both studios sued each other over it. Some people speculate that The Cat Concerto only won the academy award because it was screened first giving the illusion that "Rhapsody Rabbit" had stolen it's ideas from CC even though RR was the one that was copyrighted and released first.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Rhapsody-Rabbit-Bugs-Bunny-plays-Hungarian-Rhapsody-No-2

Vi f***ing Valdi!

Original piece here:
Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer) — Movement 3: Presto
from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi

That's patently moronic. A computer could reproduce pretty much any piano concerto with MIDI, too, does that mean it isn't impressive when someone sits down and bangs out a complex piece of Rachmaninoff? The whole point is that while that could have been sequenced, it wasn't - every individual sound you heard was triggered by a button being pressed at a precise moment. He played the drums, bass and guitar all separately. It was an insanely complex and demanding feat of musical prowess. Bow down.

What a coincidence, I was just listening to Bach's Harpsichord concerto

*goosebumps*


thank you SO much for posting this. It's *long for what it's worth. I love the brandenburg concertos, ever since I was young. My family always listens to them on Christmas- best christmas music around.

great sift.

Conductors are a relatively modern creation. Up until Beethoven or so, orchestras did not have a conductor. They were lead by the first chair violin, referred to as the concertmaster or leader.

Many ensembles that follow historically-informed performance practice (e.g. Concerto Köln, Akademie für Alte Musik, and the Academy of Ancient Music) generally do not play under a conductor until they get into Haydn or Beethoven or Mozart. There are some HIP ensembles, however, that always have a conductor, like the King's Consort.

There are also some modern chamber orchestras that do not play with a conductor. The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has never had a conductor, for example.

BTW, Karajan almost always conducted with his eyes closed. He wasn't especially skilled or showing off, it's just one of his many peculiarities.