It has to be:"Can you read music?"I can't stand when the elderly ask me that. Then they say how beneficial it is blah blah blah. Obviously I can read the notes. I have twenty books on my piano! God that frustrates me. Great topic!
My grandparents ask me that everytime they come to town. They also ask "Do you know Chopin?" They are my grandparents so I'm polite "Yes, he sure is good isn't he." I reply My grandmother is a bit of a cook her response is almost always one of these two "I love the slow movement from that one sonata, the funeral march" or "I can't stand that bastard"
"You could play something to entertain us while we eat."
But can you read music, or do you have to play it first? The latter is expected, the first (just sit and hear the music off the score) is somewhat rarer.
I'm talking about when they ask if I can read the notes and decipher them. Not sight read.
Sometimes, when I compose, I get the irritating comment "It sounds like real music.".It's kind of obvious that it is music...
My Teacher absolutely nailed Fantasie Impromptu at a xmas party years ago only for someone to then ask if she could play "Roll out the Barrel".......................
Seems to me it's just as dumb to play FI at a party as to play Roll Out at a high mass.
You need to start going to a better class of party.
Someone thought the Ondine was from kingdom hearts...
This is the most stupid topic I'v ever read.Seen the number of replies, the piano street world is really equally stupid.And to end, his last quote on syncopation proofs the woman at the church is more clever than the stupid, not knowing what to say.My God, I gave up this forum for years. But I gave it a try on Volodos in Vienna, and then I see this stupidity. 0 replies, and this stupidity gets all attention.God, let it end.
One time this guy in a forum called a piece "the ondine" as if there was only one!
If you're going to rant, spell "I've" right.
do you write dutch fluently ?
*playing Mozart's variations on "Twinkle twinkle little star"Classmate: "Can you play classical music?"Me: Of course......Alright, I just realized I myself was stupid too at that point... I also recall several instances where I play some remarkably difficult compositions, then someone asks me to play Canon in D...
A notable exception would probably be Toccata and Fugue in D minor or Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, but those usually aren't requested for piano due to the matter of the pedalboard not being on a normal piano.
Don't let that stop you; there are a number of jawdropping piano transcriptions of both.
That may be more or less due to the fact that Canon in D is extremely popular. It's not necessarily a unintentional backhanded slight against the more technically advanced compositions.
Can anyone please erase this most stupid thread ever. What a waste of time and space.
I can't find the exact quote, but he said something along the lines of... "*** musicality! It's about playing fast and perfect. It's the next step in human evolution" or something like that.
We're evolving a MIDI plug?
Maybe the piano irritated your neighbor because the music was saying something meaningful. The person may be reluctant to engage their senses in a manner that encourages thought and contemplation. Possibly a fear of being overwhelmed with one's own ideas, or reactivating thoughts of past experiences through the music.
This was back in highschool: *studies the first page of the score to pathetique sonata* vice-principal walks by. 'WHAT'S THAT?'I remember having a slight giggle, because to them, it's probably an alien language. Imagine a musically illiterate person looking at Sorabji's scores...