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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Sonata for Piano and Dogs (true story)
Message-ID: <757@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 17:49:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 25 17:49:57 1985
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Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
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Summary: 

In article <3154@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>In article <543@unisoft.UUCP> pc@unisoft.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes:
>...and the BBC had a person in the 50's (most of his pressings are
>unfortunately out of circulation) called Hoffnung who, among other things,
>arranged things for orchestra and hoover vacuum cleaner. His rendition of 
>the Mazurka #49 in A minor (Op 68, no 2) by Chopin is truly inspiring, if
>only because he succeeds in taking a nice, delicate piano piece and doing
>in with a quartet of tuba's...

Actually, the piece which included the vacuum cleaner was by Malcolm Arnold
and was entitled "A Grand Grand Overture for Orchestra, Organ, Bagpipes,
Rifles, Three Hoovers and an Electric Floor Polisherr," and the year of the
first Hoffnung Music Festival (there were 3) was 1960.  The most inspired
piece on the album is the "Concerto Populare," a pastiche of all the famous
piano concertos I can think of (my own favorite moment is the cadenza done
a'la' the Grieg piano concerto which is in fact a variation on "Roll Out
the Barrel" in A-minor, of course.)  A more serious moment is provided
by Dennis Brain (at the time the world's greatest French Horn player) playing
a Concerto for Aplhorn by Leopold Mozard (Wolfie's father) on an "odd length"
of garden hose.

Shickele's P.D.Q. Bach is inspired, but is truly but a shadow of Gerard
Hoffnung's genius.

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						Byron C. Howes
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