[Rhodes22-list] One of My Favorites

[Slim Chance]

Lee, this is not the usual version of the 1812.  'Nuff said...

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Leland <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:

>
> Can’t watch youtube at work but it isn’t like I haven’t heard the 1812
> Overture before.
>
>
>
> It’s like I can’t listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking
> about
> the Lone Ranger.  Every time I listen to the 1812 Overture I think about
> that old commercial for ?Quaker Puffs?—“This is the cereal that’s shot from
> guns…” to the tune of the Russian national anthem.  It also includes the
> French national anthem and I believe Tchaikovsky actually used real cannons
> for the battle scene.  He was definitely the father of the big band sound.
>
>
> Slim Chance wrote:
> >
> > Some of you remember me as a rocker but I grew up with a classical
> > background.  Back in the the 60s There was a weekly TV program called
> > Leonard Bernstein's Young Peoples' Concert which I never missed.  I
> > believe
> > LB to be arguably the greatest American musician of all.  Maybe Louis
> > Armstrong, Bernstein, Armstrong, Bernstein Armstrong.  Obviously for
> > different reasons.  But check this out and please also watch the second
> > part
> > where he conducts the reprise with his face alone.  This video also
> > features
> > Jeff Foxworthy on flute!
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlURvraEmeY
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