I would have yummy home-made roasted eggplant dip for the family for afternoon tea, only I can't get the lid off the blender. It's sitting there, taunting me
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Wow, that would be so amazing to watch in IMAX! I discovered Rhapsody in Blue in Junior Orchestra in year 8 (I think) when we played a simple arrangement of it. Fabulous music, so Dad (who has an extensive collection of records, tapes and now CDs) played me the original and I was hooked. Once in Senior Choir the conductor brought a choral arrangement of it along, but we didn't erform it - it was too hard. Started with the sops up on a high G, with the chromatic 3 note passage. I'd love to try it again!
It took us a few viewings to get into Fantasia 2000, but it's favoured over the original now too. It's great having a 3yo singing Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March (or Land of Hope and Glory) around kinder and the looks she gets - though I must teach her more than the first two phrases on repeat. And I find myself humming the Firebird Suite, or the Shostakovitch Piano concerto. I'm glad Disney didn't choose "classical greatest hits" to use - it's brought more music into the public awareness.
I don't think our kids have any chance of *not* being musos! They already put on concerts for their dolls and us, and talk of going off to choir :) Della was very excited when I told her about the children's choir called Gondwana Voices, and wants to join when she's older - no matter that I think they're not based in Melbourne (Sydney? or it Brisbane?).
I *loved* watching Fantasia 2000 in IMAX! And opening with Beethoven's 5th on the big screen works gorgeously. I absolutely agree about being glad Disney didn't choose "classical greatest hits" - I am so bored of musical cliches and love having my knowledge of music expanded in less forced ways.
A choral arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue eh? Sounds like a task for an IV! [Meanwhile does anyone know the dates of Hobart IV because I'd be advantageous for me to book that flight early!]
One of my other favourite memories of music put together with screen would be going to a Sydney Symphony Orchestra event called Cinema Fantastique (I think). It featured the SSO, playing a couple of short Debussy pieces as a warm up, and the big title act was Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique, accompanied by largely black and white images put up on a screen, forming an old-school style movie/image montage. The music suited the images well. That night was one of my favourite nights of live music, not just because of the program and the performance, but just over an hour before the show began, I encountered a work colleage and sold him on attending his first ever symphony at the Opera House with my sheer enthusiasm. And he loved it, he's seen other shows with me since. [Changing the world's appreciation of music, one person at a time.]
I've got to say Gondwana Voices always sounded like it was made for the Gondwana family! :)
It took us a few viewings to get into Fantasia 2000, but it's favoured over the original now too. It's great having a 3yo singing Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March (or Land of Hope and Glory) around kinder and the looks she gets - though I must teach her more than the first two phrases on repeat. And I find myself humming the Firebird Suite, or the Shostakovitch Piano concerto. I'm glad Disney didn't choose "classical greatest hits" to use - it's brought more music into the public awareness.
I don't think our kids have any chance of *not* being musos! They already put on concerts for their dolls and us, and talk of going off to choir :) Della was very excited when I told her about the children's choir called Gondwana Voices, and wants to join when she's older - no matter that I think they're not based in Melbourne (Sydney? or it Brisbane?).
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I absolutely agree about being glad Disney didn't choose "classical greatest hits" - I am so bored of musical cliches and love having my knowledge of music expanded in less forced ways.
A choral arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue eh? Sounds like a task for an IV!
[Meanwhile does anyone know the dates of Hobart IV because I'd be advantageous for me to book that flight early!]
One of my other favourite memories of music put together with screen would be going to a Sydney Symphony Orchestra event called Cinema Fantastique (I think).
It featured the SSO, playing a couple of short Debussy pieces as a warm up, and the big title act was Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique, accompanied by largely black and white images put up on a screen, forming an old-school style movie/image montage. The music suited the images well.
That night was one of my favourite nights of live music, not just because of the program and the performance, but just over an hour before the show began, I encountered a work colleage and sold him on attending his first ever symphony at the Opera House with my sheer enthusiasm. And he loved it, he's seen other shows with me since. [Changing the world's appreciation of music, one person at a time.]
I've got to say Gondwana Voices always sounded like it was made for the Gondwana family! :)
Ok, I should stop rambling and work more...
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