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<DIV>Hi arlene, thanks for the info.</DIV>
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<DIV>How strange, I was worried about the arias and not the recitative element.
Apparently there are various adaptations around for marionettes and Mozart with
Die Zauberflöte, I will try to find one that is “abridged”. GG was right, Mozart
is still far too overrated but Die Zauberflöte is mostbeautiful.</DIV>
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<DIV>Unfortunetly I still have not found exactly what I wanted. I can see
a niche for record companies here. Get a few good actors, Ben Kingsley, Kenneth
Branagh, Anthony Hopkins or the RSC crowd and let them narrate biographies of
composers with music examples or abridged versions of operas pour le dauphin.
But I digress.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=arlenedick@yahoo.com
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 17, 2011 11:54 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn
Gould.</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor] OT: Intro to Classical Music for a young lad
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<DIV><SPAN>One word of caution about the Magic Flute if you ever decide to
attend with him in person. <BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>I once took my then young son to a matinee performance of the Magic
Flute at the UofT school of opera. They had to stop the performance at one
point and caution the children in the audience if they couldn't keep the noise
level down, perhaps they should leave. We were one of the ones that did
indeed leave.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>What was the problem for youngsters? The Magic Flute has a lot
of recitative and many kids have no patience for that, especially young
lads.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>---Arlene<BR></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>---Arlene<BR></SPAN></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Pat
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<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, December 17,
2011 2:07 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re:
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear all</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I would like to thank you all for all the suggestions you
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I will definetly study Orff’s Schulwerk and see what I can
find. The idea sounds most interesting. I will also try to watch Fantasia with
Godson the next time I see him. If you are not aware of this movie please do
watch it. Stoikowski conducts Bach, Beethoven and Strawinksy (gasp ! I hear
you say, but it works ! Plus, kids like dinosaurs, so why not?) amongst others
and the visual stimulant is absolutey mindblowing stuff, especially the
Nurcracker with the woodelfs. I must admit I had not seen this movie before
but it was worth every minute.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I shall also look into all the other suggestions you kindly
sent in. Lenny doing his shtick might be interesting, I just hope he is not
too blase for a 10 year old. But if his style of delivery is getting popular
again then why not ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I also wonder about that thing with the Magic Flute done
with marionettes is worth it. Just playing the music “as is” without telling
him what it is might work then. The idea sound most interesting, Mozart and
Marionettes. Hm.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>For the moment Godson will get the new children’s book by
Dawkins (because scientific knowledge is also important !) and in terms of
classical music Peter and the Wolf (narrated in german by Loriot and english
by David Bowie).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>He will also get the WTC 1 played by GG because someone
suggested that this would quite easy, I have also added the Two and Three Part
Inventions because they are short. Tracks from the Klavierbüchlein would have
also been sweet but I dunno any good recordings, shame on me. At least I know
GG never recorded the full thing. You can never have too much Bach in any
case.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>And if he likes that stuff I already have a few ideas and
suggestions for his birthday.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Again, thank you all for helping me out on that one and the
best of the season for you and yours.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>OT closed</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=rubatoatm@gmail.com
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ymailto="mailto:rubatoatm@gmail.com">Anita Monroe</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 07, 2011 6:22 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank
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style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Tim,
This has triggered memories. One thing my students did can make me laugh
remembering it. When listening to the 1812 Overture, they threw papers
balls every time the cannon boomed. I'm sure all of them remember that
music.
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<DIV class=yiv553287497gmail_quote>On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Timothy
Conway <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:timcon@comswest.net.au" rel=nofollow
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class=yiv553287497gmail_quote>Hi Pat, I introduced hundreds of
students to classical music. I didn't tell them what it was, just
played it and sometimes had them figure out "the beat". They loved
Beethoven's 5th. It has great rhythm. The second movement can
make anyone sway,even sitting at a desk. I would just sit with the
kid, listen to good stuff and beat the rhythm, maybe with a little
drum.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>I agree. That's how we all learned at school in
England when I was 11. Our music teacher, who could play just about every
instrument in the orchestra and had a good voice, used to play us Morning
and From the Hall of the Mountain King (Greig) on 78s and a wind-up
gramophone. He also had that Rachmaninov prelude where the bloke is
supposedly lying in his coffin hoping to be released, Ravel's Bolero, The
Sorcerer's Apprentice, bouncy bits of Handel and LvB, ditto Boccherini and
whatever else he could find that we would like. One record a week was a fun
record, like The Runaway Train Went Over The Hill, or Danny Kaye's Tubby the
Tuba or Der Liddle Fiddle. If there was anything we didn't like, he never
played it again. Only when we were 15 or more did he introduce us to serious
stuff, and at that stage the LP had arrived and we were no longer confined
to shorter pieces.<BR><BR>And after more than 50 years I can still remember
a lot of the pieces he played us (those I mentioned and The New World
Symphony second movement, Schubert's Unfinished, Eine Kleine Nachtmusic,
Rossini overtures, thrilling bits of Verdi especially La Donna e Mobile, and
so on) -- all potboilers but just what we weedy almost-teens needed to
interest us in proper music. Mind you -- times were different then because
there was little TV and radio and not every house had a gramophone. The
Internet was decades away. So I suppose we would have lapped up anything.
But although times change, kids don't.<BR><BR>HTH.<BR><BR><BR>-- Tim
Conway<BR>Geraldton, Western Australia<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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