Oh give me strength

[westernind]

Concert entitled Lord of the RingTones on 27th Feb at the Barbican.
PlusPoint: it's for children - gets them interested in classical music. This is a Good Thing
PlusPoint: O Fortuna from Carmina Burana which is Good Fun
MINUSPOINT: They can bring recorders and percussion instruments

Comments

[curlwomble.livejournal.com]

Is it mandatory? Are you able to sing in chorus with earplugs in? You poor thing. Even Atarah Ben Tovim knew not to let the audience bring their own instruments.

[westernind.livejournal.com]

It is Atarah Ben Tovim.

[curlwomble.livejournal.com]

And they've stolen the name from an Orange "don't leave your phone on in the cinema" link...

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

I believe there was an ancient Chinese saying about the worst thing you can do to your enemy is give his child a drum.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's a toy vacuum cleaner* that has its own internal rattling sound and which has the same acoustic properties as an articulated lorry full of xylophones when run over a laminated floor, but you're close.


*According to the manager of a Toys'r'Us when I asked him what the most annoying toy in the shop was .....

[misthawk.livejournal.com]

Eeep! Is this something you are singing in? Or just something to experience? Whoever put it together has got to be *very* brave....

[westernind.livejournal.com]

I'm in the Philharmonia Chorus - we're singing.

[clarisinda.livejournal.com]

Recorders are lovely instruments when played properly - it's just a pity that all anyone ever thinks of is school children squaking with them :-/ But then that *is* a particularly horrendous noise...

[captainweasel.livejournal.com]

*cringe* I can't stop thinking about the opening of O Fortuna being Tootled on Recorders.
it'd be worse than the misheard version (http://www.fuggled.co.uk/choir.swf, Not really work or brain safe)