Inappropriate Music for Dinner Parties

[redbaron]

Any and all suggestions welcome. I shall start the ball rolling:

Bartok - Sonata
Cage - Music for prepared piano
Glass - Einstein on the Beach
Messiaen - Take your pick...
Prokofiev - Toccata
Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit
Ravel - Noctuelles from Miroirs
Schoenberg - Klavierstucke - Op 33
Scriabin - More or less everything from Op 35 onwards really
Sorabji - Opus Clavicembalisticum
Stockhausen - Anything from about 1952 onwards
Stravinsky - The Firebird
Stravinsky - Chant du rossignol
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring for Two Pianos

[49410enrique]

Anna Meredith - Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra
https://vimeo.com/13080366

[cody_wickham]

Liszt Funeral Prelude and Funeral March S. 206.  I'm kinda leaning towards all funeral marches also

[redbaron]

Liszt Funeral Prelude and Funeral March S. 206.  I'm kinda leaning towards all funeral marches also

I knew there was something really obvious I'd missed out, Chopin's Funeral March.

[49410enrique]

I knew there was something really obvious I'd missed out, Chopin's Funeral March.

on the  theme of funeral marches

[rachmaninoff_forever]

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Anna Meredith - Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra
https://vimeo.com/13080366

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HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH

[werq34ac]

Anna Meredith - Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra
https://vimeo.com/13080366

Is that serious?

[49410enrique]

Is that serious?

yep.
composer:
https://www.annameredith.com/home.html

the work she's talking about
[ Invalid YouTube link ]BBC Proms 2012 from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain perform Anna Meredith's HandsFree.

Composer: Anna Meredith
Choreographer: David Ogle

[Bob]

Might change the atmosphere of the dinner party...

Also inappropriate...  

Especially if you played that really slow.  I can't find a really slow youtube recording though.

Here's a jazz band version.  The link is safe.  If we're not sticking with piano.

I think this guy's ready for your next elegant dinner party.

With extra glissandi.

[redbaron]

They're all sort of ragtime pieces, fun but not really what I had in mind, they're far too jovial.

[49410enrique]

Koji Kondo (arr Karam)- Coin sound

[pytheamateur]

Koji Kondo (arr Karam)- Coin sound

An ingenious arrangement by talented transcriber.  Any tips on how to tackle this piece?

[werq34ac]

Koji Kondo (arr Karam)- Coin sound

Ah I've always done it with 2 B's... I still think it sounds better.

[49410enrique]

An ingenious arrangement by talented transcriber.  Any tips on how to tackle this piece?

it's level 8+, i don't know. that rest is super tricky. maybe list your pieces your are working on then ask for a difficulty ranking of all the coin sounds, then ask for what sounds you should work on to prepare for it.

[nanabush]

I actually laughed out loud at the Bartok Sonata.  Knowing my parents typical dinner guests, the first movement would be HILARIOUS!

"Appetizers are served!"

"Cue music"

"boom-chick-boom-chick-boom-chick"  hahaha

[49410enrique]

NSFW
https://9gag.com/gag/4366469

[chopin2015]

lol wow.... But yeah anything with a march theme seems mildly inappropriate. Anything extremely sad or scary or with lots of weird sounds. Which sucks because those are my favorite.

[pfhorrest]

I played the first movement of Gaspard at an actual dinner party... it was well received.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Erwin Schulhoff In Futurum

Watch the WHOLE thing.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

NSFW
https://9gag.com/gag/4366469

Hahahahahahhaaahahahhahahha!!!

[49410enrique]

just got the score to this (quite by accident i'd looked for it in the past then gave up but it seems to have found me instead...), it's actually well put together on paper. very tough in spots. completely hilarious though lol. yeah probably not best for supper or cocktail hour

Beethoven's Colonel Bogey

[fnork]

what a lovely thread. next time I get the opportunity to destroy a dinner party where someone asks you to "play something beautiful" on the piano, I should surely have one or two of the pieces mentioned here in my fingers.

[chadbrochill17]

just got the score to this (quite by accident i'd looked for it in the past then gave up but it seems to have found me instead...), it's actually well put together on paper. very tough in spots. completely hilarious though lol. yeah probably not best for supper or cocktail hour

Beethoven's Colonel Bogey

I would enjoy it more without the cackling hyenas in the background.

[49410enrique]

I would enjoy it more without the cackling hyenas in the background.

rumor has it there is another recording of it out there somewhere that might satsify, i've just not found it. the laughter didn't really bother me as it's 'live comedy' and since (from what i've read) it's british tv, it's true audience laughter and not a canned 'track' ala US television style. i guess for the same reason that i don't mind all the laughter when a stand up comedian does their act/routine, it's part of the show (and to me expected).

but yeah it's a little hard to listen to all the detail in this track but supposedly the other recording him performing this is 'much better'

[49410enrique]

one of the best and 'creepiest scenes' i know of in opera music, where salome is singing to the decapitated head of john the baptist (kissing the blood off the lips, etc).

B!$&# was crazy. no wonder the king finally comes to his senses and has her killed.

cool. but kind of morbid if you're requesting this as dinner music.

Salome: Ah! Ich habe deinen Mund geküsst, Jochanaan

[berggerbschoenneohcs]

For Bunita Marcus ~ Morton Feldman

My teacher is obsessed with this guy... and Rothko paintings.
90mins of boringness

[quantum]

Duets are fun for social gatherings

[nocturnetr]

Prokofiev- Toccata
Prokofiev- Piano Concerto No. 3 3rd Movement
Rachmaninoff- Piano Concerto No. 3 (I hate when people talk while I am listening to this)
Chopin- Etude Op. 10 No. 4
Grieg- Piano Concerto
Rachmaninof- Symphony No. 2
Liszt- Totentanz
Liszt- Mephisto Waltz

Oh, crap, these are some of my favourite pieces of music.

[patrickd]

Leo Ornstein's Suicide on an Airplane.

And Alkan's Symphonie for solo piano finale