Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment
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Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment
20th-century style.
A ballet in the middle of a musical ...
What "right" did George Gershwin, a popular music composer, have to create this? ...
A ballet in the middle of a musical ...
What "right" did George Gershwin, a popular music composer, have to create this? ...
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Any others? Or is the question too boring/inane/unclear to respond to?
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Quaco wrote:Any others? Or is the question too boring/inane/unclear to respond to?
Maybe just clarify. I keep thinking of Sparks or "Bohemian Rhapsody", but that's more of a crass juxtaposition than actually sneaking highbrow into pop. I would think Pet Sounds was sneaking in some sophistication. No?
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This is the only one that jumped in my mind... bit of symphonic vaudevillian escapades in the middle.
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Quaco wrote:Any others? Or is the question too boring/inane/unclear to respond to?
115 views!
my guess is that they're quietly composing their replies. Exciting time to be a BCBer!
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My one is probably more "pilfer" than sneak, but still, Eric Cartman tricks people into buying Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 2
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Thanks guys!
The Carmen is a good shout.
never/ever, your link didn't work for me. What was it?
The Carmen is a good shout.
never/ever, your link didn't work for me. What was it?
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SWIMMING POOL HARRINGTON wrote:Quaco wrote:Any others? Or is the question too boring/inane/unclear to respond to?
115 views!
my guess is that they're quietly composing their replies. Exciting time to be a BCBer!
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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment
Like Nina Simone sneaking a Bach fugue into Love me or Leave me?
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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment
I guess I always felt that way about mid-1960s Bob Dylan with the literary firehose turned on.
Really any hyper-"poetic" lyricist. Jim Morrison too ("highbrow" can include "terrible").
Really any hyper-"poetic" lyricist. Jim Morrison too ("highbrow" can include "terrible").
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George P. Smackers wrote:Really any hyper-"poetic" lyricist. Jim Morrison too ("highbrow" can include "terrible").
He was an interesting case because he was also a performance artist. Shock tactics, improvising poetry in front of 20,000 people -- takes a hell of a lot of guts.
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Re: Sneaking highbrow into pop entertainment
some rap act - Prince Igor by Borodin
Beach Boys - Lady Lynda (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring)
The Toys - A Lover's Concerto (Minuet in G Major)
Beach Boys - Lady Lynda (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring)
The Toys - A Lover's Concerto (Minuet in G Major)
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Things that a fella can't forget...
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Only Joe Walsh is allowed to do this kind of stupid shit.
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Landfill indie meets ballet. One for the pseuds I reckon.
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Quaco wrote:Thanks guys!
The Carmen is a good shout.
never/ever, your link didn't work for me. What was it?
Mark & Clark Band- Worn Down Piano. Maybe this one works...
This one is a blast too.
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Too many songs by ELP to list.
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Revolution no 9.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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never/ever wrote:Quaco wrote:Thanks guys!
The Carmen is a good shout.
never/ever, your link didn't work for me. What was it?
Mark & Clark Band- Worn Down Piano. Maybe this one works...
That's pretty wild stuff. Do you know, is all that original, or are they interpolating classical pieces into the song?
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It is original, written by twin brother Mark and Clark Seymour. It was a big hit in the Netherlands too.
All I further know is that Paul Shaffer played in the band.
All I further know is that Paul Shaffer played in the band.
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