My string quartet has an all-Mozart concert coming up as part of Bath's annual Mozart Festival. So, of course, we're practicing very hard.
Today we tried playing his Quartet in C major from upside-down sheet music. It was a promising Post-Modern attempt at a fresh angle on an old horse; however it didn't work out as all my 9-bar rests were, in fact, 6 bars, and our cellist started crying and convulsing with laughter.
Next rehearsal, we're going to try the more post-baroque angle of making it a race to the end of the piece, disqualification for missed notes.
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Hrm. Eine Kleine backwards would be really good, I think. Not upside down, mind... this would take serious mind skills and would preserve the tonality but still be zany.
Yah, Mozart in reverse would just sound like post-Baroque progressive techno.
It reminds me a lot of that story in the news recently come to think of it, about how some kind of a Roman guy they discovered who was an architect who was told to build this amazing sideways building in the days of yore, but in the end he couldn't because he was a columns man- yah he couldn't figure row
... phew... those days of yore were hard man...
Figaro? Figaro. Ha ha ha.
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