lieder festival.
i actually have quite a long post stored somewhere in my head-- but because it is one thirty five in the morning, and because i'm not quite sure if i'm ready to sit here for two hours and rant, cry, laugh and ramble to a unresponsive piece of electronic equipment, i am just going to write a short, succinct, and completely meaningless post.
observation of the day: music majors are the weirdest, albeit most interesting, people i have ever met.
actual conversation that occurred during the emma kirkby workshop [which, i am still unsure how or why i managed to attend, considering i am most definitely not a music major]:
music major #1: you know, i went into banks [amazing sheet music store in york] today.. spent so much money.
music major #2: oh yeah? what did you get?
me: [sitting quietly at the side eavesdropping]
music major #1: oh, i got the K.466.
music major #2: whoa, really! you got the d minor concerto? good buy! how much was it?
music major #1: a quid fifty. real bargain if i ever saw one!
music major #2: that IS a bargain.
music major #1: i was thinking about getting the K.595, but it seemed a little too expensive.
music major #2: wait.. that's a piano concerto, isn't it? the.. wait, don't tell me.. the.. number twenty-seven?
music major #1: yeah! good shout.
they. speak. in. k. numbers.
K NUMBERS! MY GAWD!
for people who, like me, are somewhat musically illiterate [as compared to THEM, at the very least.] and don't know what K numbers refer to.. basically, some crazy person called ludwig von kochel one day decided to catalogue the complete works of mozart according to numbers, and these are called the kochel numbers or the k numbers.
and these people can randomly name k. numbers, and their interlocutors actually KNOW EXACTLY what piece they're talking about.
tis a scary, scary world.
ciao!
observation of the day: music majors are the weirdest, albeit most interesting, people i have ever met.
actual conversation that occurred during the emma kirkby workshop [which, i am still unsure how or why i managed to attend, considering i am most definitely not a music major]:
music major #1: you know, i went into banks [amazing sheet music store in york] today.. spent so much money.
music major #2: oh yeah? what did you get?
me: [sitting quietly at the side eavesdropping]
music major #1: oh, i got the K.466.
music major #2: whoa, really! you got the d minor concerto? good buy! how much was it?
music major #1: a quid fifty. real bargain if i ever saw one!
music major #2: that IS a bargain.
music major #1: i was thinking about getting the K.595, but it seemed a little too expensive.
music major #2: wait.. that's a piano concerto, isn't it? the.. wait, don't tell me.. the.. number twenty-seven?
music major #1: yeah! good shout.
they. speak. in. k. numbers.
K NUMBERS! MY GAWD!
for people who, like me, are somewhat musically illiterate [as compared to THEM, at the very least.] and don't know what K numbers refer to.. basically, some crazy person called ludwig von kochel one day decided to catalogue the complete works of mozart according to numbers, and these are called the kochel numbers or the k numbers.
and these people can randomly name k. numbers, and their interlocutors actually KNOW EXACTLY what piece they're talking about.
tis a scary, scary world.
ciao!
posted by jo at 09:36
1 Comments:
heh. I'm a random ex-music major who stumbled blindly across your page, and this post rang a bell. I've had conversations like that too, about the horn concerti. Each K-number had its own separate meaning, each was special, each had a different flavour.
toodles. all the best.
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