All,
My wife and I have a duo and we often play
weddings. Not too long ago we got a request to play a
piece called the "Canadian Wedding Song" as the bride
walked in. Neither one of us had heard of it and
research turned up nothing, so we asked the bride's
mother to provide us with the music. (We get some
crazy requests!) She seemed very surprised we didn't
know it since she claimed it was a very popular song
and that many people played it at weddings.
Finally I realized "Canadian" = "Canon in D." (I
guess I never knew Pachelbel hailed from Toronto...)
Chris
--- bill kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> i got the joke but didn't think he was well known.
> i
> lead a sheltered life ...
>
> i bought some tapes of his a zillion years ago. he
> had a wonderful voice - killed in the blitz, i
> believe.
>
> - bill
>
> --- "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I think Al Bowly is pretty well known, is he not?
> > Thus the funnierness of
> > the typo. Of course, in context, this is a
> > misinterpretation of Tomaso
> > "Albinoni."
> >
> > Eugene
> >
> >
> > At 05:51 PM 5/22/2006, bill kilpatrick wrote:
> > >is there anyone alive - other than ... - who even
> > >knows who al bowlly was?
> > >
> > >blowblowthouwinterwind - bill
> > >
> > >
> > >--- Stewart McCoy
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > This afternoon I was sent this little bit of
> > > > nonsense, which I pass
> > > > on, with the hope that some might find it
> > amusing.
> > > >
> > > > Stewart McCoy.
> > > >
> > > > -o-O-o-
> > > >
> > > > The following appeared in "Early Music Review"
> > for
> > > > November 2003.
> > > >
> > > > "Years ago, in what seems another life, I
> worked
> > in
> > > > record shops.
> > > > Customers would come in bearing scraps of
> paper
> > upon
> > > > which they'd
> > > > scribbled notes about the music which they had
> > heard
> > > > on Radio 3 and
> > > > wanted a recording thereof. Many were
> wonderful
> > > > misprints and
> > > > howlers, and I started to write them down.
> These
> > are
> > > > all totally
> > > > genuine requests - I've not embellished or
> > improved
> > > > them! Here are
> > > > some samples:
> > > >
> > > > Acker Bilk's Canon
> > > >
> > > > Al Bowlly's Adagio
> > > >
> > > > Mendelssohn's Wedding Mask
> > > >
> > > > Sibelius's Tapioca
> > > > (and Potholer's Daughter)
> > > >
> > > > Chopin's Military Bolognese
> > > >
> > > > The Bog Roll from the Tales of Hoffmann
> > > >
> > > > Bach's Kestrel Sweets
> > > >
> > > > Cream of Gerontius
> > > >
> > > > Cavalier Rusty Meccano
> > > >
> > > > I particularly liked a Monteverdi one - a
> > request
> > > > from an old lady
> > > > who wanted to mug up on an opera she was going
> > to
> > > > see at
> > > > Glyndebourne in 1984. She really did call it
> > > >
> > > > Constipation of Popeye.
> >
> > --
> >
> > To get on or off this list see list information at
> >
>
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
> >
>
> early music charango ...
> http://groups.google.com/group/charango
>
>
>
>
>
>
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