When I was in tenth grade I auditioned for, and made, our high school 'chamber orchestra', which was basically an exclusive group of highly talented string musicians into which I gained membership solely based on my older brother's legacy of musical reputation when he had graduated two years earlier. We had 'events' in which we were invited to play, some around the community, but mostly providing background music for Brighton High School teachers' functions throughout the year. Because the purpose was mainly to take up as much time as possible, we always ended up playing Eine Kleine Nacht Musik (all four movements), various short pieces (somehow "Ashokan Farewell" managed to make it in there every time) and, of course, Pachelbel's Canon in D.
The two cellists ranted, they raved, they mutinied, they threatened cut time tempos, but in the end were always defeated by the necessity of nine minutes of music as they slowly sawed their way through 54 repetitions of 8 quarter notes, while we violinists and violists gleefully canoned above them.
Annie S. and John O., this clip is for you.
*many eternal thanks to JC for sending me this link. You are my new website hero.
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I never knew so many people felt the way I do.
My blogging universe is coming full circle.
Anyway.
Remember when Coolio sampled Canon in D? His use of that song led to one of my favorite comedic moments in the MTC when this elder in my district bragged about how he and his boys from Salina, UT, used to roll through their high school parking lot in their trucks after football practice blaring Coolio's "I'll See You When You Get There."
And then I went and ate some more fake Lucky Charms.
Haha! Laughing. Laughing hard.
That was awesome. Nice post Asian Keng.
Welcome Miss Hass! It's lots of fun over on this side of the blogging universe. Dude, why haven't you shared your friends earlier?! I don't have a personal recording of Coolio, but it's cited on Wikipedia's entry.
My one rant against Pachelbel's Canon is tenth grade Spanish ES (I have no idea what the ES stood for... Especially Sardonic...?) and we were forced to read this novella entitled Marianela, about some really unfortunately ugly girl in love with some hot rich blind boy who then gets a surgery to get his eyesight back and dumps her for some beautiful airheaded chick. And then Marianela got eaten by dogs. Or maybe that was the *other* story we read about the girl who had four mentally retarded siblings who attacked her one day and fed her to the dogs. There were definitely man-eating dogs somewhere in tenth grade Spanish.
Anyway, I digress; we were then exposed to a cinematic interpretation of said Marianela filmed in true telenovela style, with the theme of the movie being Pachelbel's Canon in D. It was my spanish teacher's favorite movie; at the subsequent teacher's function we jokingly dedicated our twenty-fifth rendition of the Canon to her, and she openly wept tears. I still haven't decided whether it was a funny moment or not...
For you Spanish speakers (I know you're out there) here is Wikisummaries' entry on said Marianela. I hope you find it more moving than I did.
Dude, I don't think I've heard that song since high school. But I bought the cd way back when and am now rolling to it.
Warren G--
Thanks so much for the song. I don't think I've actually heard it before, but when I pulled it up at work my coworker/office husband (everyone needs an office spouse) came over and exclaimed "Coolio! I haven't heard this song in a looong time..."
And then our computers crashed and I am currently on my third reboot. I've been at work for an hour and a half and have done nothing of productivity... except comment on my own blog...
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