Pietro Mascagni once wrote: "Modern music is as dangerous as cocaine."

[firefuryflame]

Managed to distract myself entirely at work today with the following three books: "Occasional Essays in Musicology" about Australian music, a biography of Peter Cook (<3) and "Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotes". I will quote to you from it. You KNOW you want to read it.

How I do adore musicians.

COMPOSER ANECDOTES

Comments

[satinvarnish]

Congratulations! re: music.

Re: Ex2: ditto.

[elvish_ally]

That is so funny!

Though I don't quite understand the French thing...I'm assuming it was lost in translation? :P

[firefuryflame]

it's like... remember the question and answer things that you have to do in textbooks when you learn a modern language?

where is david going? - he is going to the park.

what is the 'cellist doing? - he is clutching his head and running away in terror.

[elvish_ally]

Ah...okay

I get it

[asleep_in_arms]

"Musicians will have their little jokes. When one of them invited a friend to lunch, he sent a card reading: "The pleasure of your company is requested for luncheon, key of G." The guest interpreted the invitation correctly, and came at one sharp."

That is sooooooo funny and rad. Thats just the type of humor I love. Thanks for the post. You have made my Monday at the office very enjoyable.

Mozart's Nose

[abulafia]

Though that story may be apocryphal, it's not entirely unusual for musicians to employ novel methods of playing the otherwise impossible. E.g., consider Alexander Vynograd's alternative "fingerings" on his version of the Bach BWV639, arranged for an eight string guitar:

Many thanks for these quotations.

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