Thursday Tunes
It's easy to forget that what we today call "classical music" was in fact the pop music of its day. What's left to us is the best of the best: the music that was so good, it transcended from popular entertainment into art.
There is some music today which will obviously become "classical music" in the future: much of what John Williams has written, for example, will one day make the leap into art, (in my opinion, some of it has already done so). Some pieces, however, are less obvious candidates -- until you hear them in the right context, with the right performer.
This video of piano virtuoso Jarrad Radnich playing a piano transcription of the theme from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean is an excellent example. While we mere mortals would need 40 fingers to play like this, it is truly amazing to watch. I think it's a law, by the way, that piano virtuosos must have long bangs, which they can shake violently for added emphasis during the staccato bits. It's part of the performance.
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There is some music today which will obviously become "classical music" in the future: much of what John Williams has written, for example, will one day make the leap into art, (in my opinion, some of it has already done so). Some pieces, however, are less obvious candidates -- until you hear them in the right context, with the right performer.
This video of piano virtuoso Jarrad Radnich playing a piano transcription of the theme from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean is an excellent example. While we mere mortals would need 40 fingers to play like this, it is truly amazing to watch. I think it's a law, by the way, that piano virtuosos must have long bangs, which they can shake violently for added emphasis during the staccato bits. It's part of the performance.
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posted by Jar(egg)head at 00:01
1 Comments:
It's funny you would do the pirates of the Caribbean. My son, who has been taking piano lessons for years with my encouragement found the sheet music for this and started working on it. He says it is a very hard piece, but he has gotten the early parts of the song sounding good, at least to my untrained ear. It is a cool song and I still am not sure how he found it, especially between school, killing tanks in WOT, or monsters in WOW.
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