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Offline ihatepop

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If Chopin came back to life...
on: July 29, 2006, 12:10:56 PM
If the master himself came back from the dead, what would you say to him or do for him first? ;D

I would say, "May the Chopinian Spirit live on!"

Offline mlha

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #1 on: July 29, 2006, 12:23:23 PM
I would beg him to stay at my house.

Offline bernhard

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #2 on: July 29, 2006, 12:27:46 PM
I would beg him to stay at my house.

You would catch TB and end up like Pocorina. ;D
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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #3 on: July 29, 2006, 12:42:51 PM
You would catch TB and end up like Pocorina. ;D


You're right.    I'll  get a TB booster shot, first.
 And who is Pocorina?

Offline bernhard

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #4 on: July 29, 2006, 12:48:40 PM

You're right.    I'll  get a TB booster shot, first.
 And who is Pocorina?

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,8287.0.html
(make sure you read right through to the end of the thread)
 ;D

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The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. (Hunter Thompson)

Offline hodi

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #5 on: July 29, 2006, 12:55:57 PM

Offline pianochild

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #6 on: July 29, 2006, 01:13:55 PM
There would be a classical charts and he would be no 1 every week!
He would compose thousands more pieces and be the richest man in the world. He would also be a guest of the royal family!
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Offline mlha

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #7 on: July 29, 2006, 01:46:55 PM
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,8287.0.html
(make sure you read right through to the end of the thread)
 ;D

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Wow.  I wasn't on the forum during all of that.  What a crazy story.  I promise not to post anything about catching TB from Chopin when I meet him! 

Offline chopinfan_22

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #8 on: July 29, 2006, 03:08:02 PM
I would crap my pants because the decaying corpse of a renowned and respected musician and composer is knocking on my door.
"When I look around me, I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion and I must despize the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation beyond all wisdom and philosophy."

Offline pianistimo

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #9 on: July 29, 2006, 11:32:15 PM
i'd say 'can you PLEASE compose something in a major key now?'  then, he'd get all mad and have a heart attack and die again.

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #10 on: July 30, 2006, 12:21:48 AM
I ask him if he'd like something to drink.

Courtesy first!  :D

(He would be quite thirsty, I'd imagine, after being stuck in a coffin for 200 years)
"I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play." --  Artur Schnabel, after being asked for the secret of piano playing.

Offline practicingnow

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #11 on: July 30, 2006, 05:30:51 AM
I'd break his fingers, so that he doesn't have to know the misery, frustration, and indignity of being a composer of genius in the 21st century. 
I'd be doing him a favor, even though it would be robbing the rest of us.

Offline shasta

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #12 on: July 30, 2006, 02:54:38 PM
Over a bottle of wine, we'd listen to the Chopin-Godowsky etudes and then I'd ask him what he thinks.  I think he'd love them.
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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #13 on: July 30, 2006, 04:42:10 PM
I play him some Schoenberg...
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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #14 on: July 30, 2006, 05:53:29 PM
i'd shove the fantasy impromptu right in his face 
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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #15 on: July 31, 2006, 05:48:59 AM
i'd shove the fantasy impromptu right in his face 

Yeah, and then h'e'll say "Was'nt that supposed to be burnt?"

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #16 on: July 31, 2006, 05:58:24 AM
He would stop, make sure nobody was looking, and firmly grab his junk to make sure everything was still there...then he'd start composing again.  ;D

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Re: If Chopin came back to life...
Reply #17 on: July 31, 2006, 06:00:40 AM
I will tell him of his insignificance in the current musical world and how he comes up as mediocre when compared to the atonal works composed long after his death.
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