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Re: An unusual Gig...*S*
« Reply #90 on: March 08, 2018, 12:46:37 PM »
...Thank you...I have a lot of respect for John Cage...one of the BEST COMPOSERS...IMHO.   :)  Cage composed VERY challenging works, I did try to perform a few...but they were beyond my abilities...although, at my peak, I was a pretty formidable musician.   >:(

Here is Rags, performing John Cages 4'33" piano sonata...I just stand back in awe... :o

https://youtu.be/JTEFKFiXSx4
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Re: An unusual Gig...*S*
« Reply #91 on: March 08, 2018, 05:52:05 PM »
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« Reply #92 on: March 09, 2018, 01:15:14 PM »
...Izee' starts an MTC 'Opera Company'...and composes a score, and orders thralls and bonds to act and sing.  Ragnar shuts down the performance after the 1st Act, and as Izee' sits in a cage, she thinks..."Maybe I should have composed this in F minor rather than C major."   :P

https://youtu.be/ZD8jP52Mwck
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« Reply #93 on: March 10, 2018, 10:40:50 PM »
...Izee' decided, after her caging, to dissolve her 'Opera Company', and turned to Chamber Music.   :)  She drilled thralls and bonds in learning to play instruments 'liberated' from Turia, and composed some music...and actually joined them in performing.  A FM owed her and Lancer a fair amount of coin, and the FM agreed to be the 'Conductor'.  Ragnar actually allowed them to finish the 'masterpiece' before grabbing Izee' and throwing her into a cage.   :P  Izee' sat there for three days, and promised Ragnar, when He let her out...that she would just stick to being a Healer.   ::)

https://youtu.be/75ezBrU4_i8
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« Reply #94 on: March 11, 2018, 11:51:12 AM »
...It had been a very difficult three hands...the children had been very cranky...and a lot of Warriors needed treatment at the Med Wagon.  Izee' decided to compose a serious cantata, hoping that it would get her back into Ragnars' good graces, and wrote a part for Him.  He agreed to perform it...but...He had practiced WAY TOO MUCH before the performance.   :o  Barbarians had told her many tales of Earth.  One was about an almost Godlike woman named 'Ifigenia', another was about a place called 'Brooklyn'. She decided that this heroic masterwork would involve the woman...and the city called Brooklyn.  Some of the 'liberated' instruments from Turia had been damaged, so she just told the musicians to use whatever what was left of them. Ragnar couldn't remember the performance, so He didn't cage Izee'...although Izee' did have to take out her kurt, at times, because barbarian bonds were laughing at her.   >:(

Here it is... ;D

https://youtu.be/vzx5R6fZ_VE
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« Reply #95 on: March 13, 2018, 10:27:55 PM »
...OK...another r/t 'ornery moment' in my musical career.   ;)  I was Principal Cello when we performed this, and there is a very lovely cello solo at the beginning...problem was...my 'insane mind' decided that it sounded like "I've been working on the railroad."  I played it properly the first few rehearsals...and then my 'insane mind' kicked in...and just said..."DO IT!"   :o  I went ahead and kept playing the folk tune, ignoring the music.  The Conductor stopped us, and looked at me with disbelief... :o...and I just held up the score.  He quietly said..."I thought that you knew how to read music when I placed you first chair."  I gave Him my best bewildered look and said..."Is that what these dots and lines are?"  Well, here it is... ;D

https://youtu.be/c3_aM_s0R1U
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« Reply #96 on: March 14, 2018, 10:00:35 AM »
...I have always loved works by Gabriel Faure...*S*...I even sang in the choir for his Requiem once.  He must have been an amazing Man.  This work, for cello solo, shows a lot of emotions.  I had worked with a pianist to prepare and perform it at our "Solo Class", and we had it down pretty well.  Problem was...I had received news of a tragedy in my family the night before.  I was standing in the wings of the stage with the pianist, waiting for the other student to finish, twirling my cello...and just decided that I couldn't perform...I would have broken down.   :'(  I told the pianist, "I am leaving", and walked away, packed, and left the Hall.  I heard that she went out, and played a sonata.

https://youtu.be/5kpPq0ITOs0
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« Reply #97 on: March 14, 2018, 03:53:30 PM »
...At Conservatory, a male violinist and I worked on this piece on our own, but we never performed it.   :)  It is extremely difficult.   :P  I thought it was a lot of fun, I imagined, probably because of my age, that it was about a young couple getting to know each other.  They have their discussions, arguments, and more tender moments.  I always really got into the last part!  They have a HUGE ARGUMENT, and break up!   ::)

https://youtu.be/EOTykAFBWS4
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« Reply #98 on: March 16, 2018, 10:44:34 AM »
...Izee' is sitting on the porch of her wagon, eating a bosk steak.   ;D  For some reason, she remembers an incident at Scagnar.  Donar had been away for a while, and things had gotten lax.  When He entered the Main Hall, He saw chaos...There were passed out Men all over...with passed out bonds laying on top of them.  There was food that had gone bad, on the table...the benches...the floor...and on the bonds.  In a corner table, Izee' and three other FW were drinking 'Old Yesterday', and TRYING to play a game that involved some manual dexterity...the area was littered with the playing pieces.   :o  Donar looked around, and SHOUTED!   :o...

We all cleaned up the Hall, and sobered up the Men and had the bonds carried away to the kennel.   ::)  Here is what He sounded like.

https://youtu.be/uw1YkEU0Gl0 ::) ::)
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Re: An unusual Gig...*S*
« Reply #99 on: March 16, 2018, 05:56:59 PM »
Something tells me it would not have been quite so enjoyable as that. LOL
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« Reply #100 on: March 16, 2018, 11:45:09 PM »
...As I was scrubbing a bench to remove the dried oysters, as Donar glared at me and the three other FW...this barbarian song ran through my mind.  At times I would softly sing in the barbarian tongue...but would quickly stop when Donar would GLARE at me... :P

https://youtu.be/7_HJeORKBas :P
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« Reply #101 on: March 18, 2018, 11:58:48 AM »
...Izee' was REALLY hoping to get back into Ragnars' Good Graces...He had been unhappy with her foray as a Composer...and told her to just stick with Healing...that was what she did best.   >:(  But, one evening, after sharing a bottle of 'Old Yesterday' with a FW who had once been a barbarian, Izee' came up with a BRILLIANT IDEA!  The FW had been softly singing melodies from Earth, and Izee's mind was memorizing them...Izee' couldn't control that part of her mind.   :o  Izee' decided that a FULL instrumental composition would get her back into Ragnars' Good Graces...and in her free time...composed a truly EPIC work!  It was rehearsed...performed...and Izee' was caged for a full hand!   :o  The FW who had taught Izee' the melodies was also thrown into the cage with her, and an EPIC FW FIGHT broke out!   ???  The Warriors broke up the fight, and told the two that there would be SEVERE PUNISHMENT if they fought again!   >:(  So, the two arranged the furs and cushions so that they each had 1/2 of the cage, and would glower at the other if she got too close to the center line.   >:(  Here is the Symphony.   ;D

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« Reply #102 on: March 18, 2018, 12:02:42 PM »
...Here is the link...

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Re: An unusual Gig...*S*
« Reply #103 on: March 18, 2018, 05:58:18 PM »
Chuckles


"No percussion? BACK IN THE CAGE!!!!!"

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« Reply #104 on: March 18, 2018, 06:17:12 PM »
...She slinks back into the cage...and closes the door...herself.   :P   Izee' makes a note to herself as she settles into the furs..."Percussion...percussion...PERCUSSION!!!!!!!!!!!!"   ::)
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