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westernind ([personal profile] westernind) wrote2005-01-05 05:07 pm

Oh give me strength

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

[identity profile] november-girl.livejournal.com 2005-01-05 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe there was an ancient Chinese saying about the worst thing you can do to your enemy is give his child a drum.

[identity profile] jfs.livejournal.com 2005-01-06 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
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 .....