Another Christmas is approaching, and even though I am just dreaming, there a few things that I want the music world to receive.
-A Brahms Octet for strings
-Mozart Cello Sonatas
-Beethoven’s 10th
-Brahms Cello Concerto
-a Wagner comedy
-Bartok Quintet for piano, violin, cello, oboe and trombone
-Schubert string quartet, “Death and the Taxman”
-Schubert Symphony # 20
-Copland “Fanfare for the Common Cold”
-a Fugue for Ten Horns
-A chalet overlooking Pachelbel Canyon
-a voice-operated page-turning mechanism
-Stravinsky “Camaro Suite”
-a Honda Fugue (to follow the Prelude)
-I really just generally want a ricercar
-I would like for those “Allegro” RVs to actually travel at least andante
-a Black and Decker variable speed reversible cello bow
-an atmospheric resubstantiator which could reconstruct all of the music that Brahms burned
-I would like for choral conductors to just say they are conducting in 8 instead of being so fancy-schmancy and telling us that they are conducting in a subdivided 4.
-a fugue for Texas Instruments
-a National Semi-conductor, so people in the back stands of violins can see better. (I know, big government, but it’s an idea whose time has come).
-a video of Ravel and Debussy racing through the wine list at Les Deux Magots in Paris
-I want to put some Crumbs in a Byrd Cage and watch the Byrds get Bizet
There. I guess that about Rhapsodup.
3 comments:
I would like to have all our music put on I-Pads, with the bowing changes made by the first stand and automatically entered on each. Plus a page turning foot pedal.
I love your Christmas list so much that I wrote a bit about it on my blog, Quodlibet, so that others may enjoy it, too:
http://quodlibet-sarah.blogspot.com/2011/12/whats-on-musicians-christmas-list.html
Very clever!! I especially love the idea of recovering Brahms' burnt scores through an "atmospheric resubstantiator." If only it could be true.
Thanks, Sarah! An interesting Hartford connection. You blog about people I know from half a lifetime ago.
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