Four guys, one cello
March 18th, 2007 ~ Just a slice of heaven, Pop goes the cultureSo what do you do in a musical family when you’ve got four musicians, four bows and only one cello?
Apparently, you do Ravel’s Bolero for eight hands.
(By the way, as BJohnD noted, the “Burqa Blue” video a couple posts back is no longer available to be embedded. Don’t know what the deal is there, but if you didn’t get a chance to see it and wanted to, the link is HERE. Be warned though, it’s the kind of repetitive little ditty that gets stuck in your head.)
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March 19th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Isn’t that neat?
We saw “Bolero” performed in concert last month, and then this crossed my desk just a few days afterwards. True brilliance.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Well, it seems to me that this version shortens it by a couple minutes, right? Which is a blessing really. It’s a musical cliche at this point, so it should be unassailable, but I always thought it was a little on the repetitive side. You just can’t wait for that big dramatic key change to happen.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Yes, because it was about 15 minutes live.
September 7th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Something so refreshing for a piece that’s become so passe.
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