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Piano Board => Performance => Topic started by: zheer on October 18, 2006, 08:22:16 PM
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You know Bachs famous prelude in C major, well apparently a recording of it by Glen Gould amongst other things have been put on a space shuttle and sent on its way through space in the late 80eezzz, imagin planet earth will be no more, but Gould and Bach will remain for ever.
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Shame they did not send Gould with the recording.
That would make an excellent script for a remake of the first Star Trek Film.
Gould spends a thousand years going round the universe collecting new music ideas.
He then comes back as a giant spaceship to meet with the creator.
I know, go back to the Anything but Piano room Thal.
Bye
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record#Contents
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They must have had some taste, coz they put Chuck Berry on it.
Happy 80th Chuck.
Thal
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Should confuse the hell out of other life forms if they hear him humming the music too. "
"Gfterach, what the hell kind of hideous instrument is that making those obsequious extraneous noises?"
"Blutqwarth, it sounds like someones testicles are being sqeezed" :o
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lol - they put the rite of Spring on there! that'll encourage them to come, then we can beat em up and roast em like the savages we are! 8) ;D
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Until they disentigrate us with their giant laser guns.
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You guys are funy.
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but they will take away our jeoooooooooobs.... >:(
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Dey took arr durbs!
DEY TOOK ARR DURBS!!
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You know Bachs famous prelude in C major, well apparently a recording of it by Glen Gould amongst other things have been put on a space shuttle and sent on its way through space in the late 80eezzz, imagin planet earth will be no more, but Gould and Bach will remain for ever.
It was in 77, not in late 80eeezzz, and they could have chosen something better than that.
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Actually I thought it was the C major Prelude & Fugue (the not so famous one) from Book II that was included.
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Actually I thought it was the C major Prelude & Fugue (the not so famous one) from Book II that was included.
According to wikipedia it is from Book II. I had thought Glenn Gould playing Bach was the only classical music sent on this thing, but it looks like there was quite a bit. But somehow Gould is the most appropriate, and the most memorable selection, since he was definitely the most alien of all those represented. He even said, and I paraphrase because unfortunately I can't remember where I read this, "Art in its loftiest goals is scarcely human at all."
Walter Ramsey
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Those poor aliens.
They'll probably think that we have no taste (as well as no sense of decency. Imagine sending Stravinsky all the way across space. Despicable. He should perish with the rest of the earth. j/k. ;D)
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Those poor aliens.
They'll probably think that we have no taste (as well as no sense of decency. Imagine sending Stravinsky all the way across space. Despicable. He should perish with the rest of the earth. j/k. ;D)
:'(
They should have sent some rubinstein's chopin or spanish music