April Fools
This evening at our concert in Quincy, IL I walked on stage for the second half with Julie's cello. Donna carried my violin and sat down in my seat. Julie sat down at the piano. We settled in for a moment, waited for silence. Donna gave a dramatic cue, and then we made extremely raucous noises on the wrong instruments.The audience looked very surprised (the first half of the concert had been considerably less raucous) and a bit confused... Then they laughed. A lot.
posted by emily @ 1:29 AM
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I was at the concert in Quincy. You guys were fantastic! I told my friend that when you sat down with different instruments, that it had to be a joke, she said she thought you guys were so good, you could probably play all 3 instruments. She was half right!
That would be an absolute trip to see that switch happen live. That's the kind of infusion that live classical music needs for more cross-over appeal beyond a predominant AARP demographic. Even the sound couldn't sound more raucus than the way a smacked out Jimmy Page whacked his Gibson with a violin bow in live performances back in the 70's. And you know what--it became a staple of a Zeppelin concert as the audiences came to expect it even back then. Radical example, but the same principle at work.
J.Cee
You should ask Mason Bates to write a piece for you with Julie on piano, Donna on violin and Emily on cello. But I wouldn't fool around with putting Donna on cello, Julie on violin and Emily on piano. That would give Cello Bruskin an identity crisis--all of a sudden he would think he would have to buy airplane tickets under the name of Cello Kwong!
Aloysius
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