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whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 9:50 am
by trill
Politics aside, how often do you see a whistle featured in front of a full, classical orchestra ? !

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/wp-con ... ue.mp4?_=1

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:25 am
by fatmac
Generation? C? Bb? :D

Don't often see the pipes played dressed like that either... :lol:

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:11 pm
by Nanohedron
The whistle performance had me casting about for a descriptive word, so I coined one by mashing two together and getting a third from the union into the bargain: Melismacrobatic.

Probably won't catch on.

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:17 pm
by Mr.Gumby
André Rieu usually has a novelty Oirish item that features a whistle. It's not as uncommon as you may think. And its usually cringe worthy, as it is here.

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:24 pm
by Peter Duggan
fatmac wrote:Generation? C? Bb?
Eb.
Nanohedron wrote:The whistle performance had me casting about for a descriptive word
Overdone.

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:35 pm
by Nanohedron
Mr.Gumby wrote:André Rieu usually has a novelty Oirish item that features a whistle. It's not as uncommon as you may think. And its usually cringe worthy, as it is here.
I was rather mystified by the wholesale upwelling of tears, but maybe that's my cool Minnesotan reserve talking. Not that traditionalists should necessarily take mob response as a legitimizing argument - far from it. But it suggests where the money is.
Peter Duggan wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:The whistle performance had me casting about for a descriptive word
Overdone.
Well, I was trying for something a bit more diplomatic, but Peter to the rescue. :lol:

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:36 pm
by Mr.Gumby
Here's a few more:

Last rose of summer

My heart will go on

and the worst of the Paddywhackery:

with John Sheehan (no whistle there)

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:37 pm
by Nanohedron
Mr.Gumby wrote:Here's a few more:

Last rose of summer

My heart will go on

and the worst of the Paddywhackery:

with John Sheehan (no whistle there)
And what, may I ask, did we do to deserve this? :really:

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:40 pm
by bigsciota
The slight flinch from the lady at 0:26 really makes it for me.

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:41 pm
by Mr.Gumby
And what, may I ask, did we do to deserve this? :really:
The OP did ask the question, didn't he? :D

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:51 pm
by Nanohedron
bigsciota wrote:The slight flinch from the lady at 0:26 really makes it for me.
Eye of the beholder, I guess. When I saw it, I thought, Yep. Here come the waterworks, right on cue. What I didn't expect were the numbers; I confess that I cynically wondered if I weren't witnessing a paid claque.

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:53 pm
by Nanohedron
Mr.Gumby wrote:
And what, may I ask, did we do to deserve this? :really:
The OP did ask the question, didn't he? :D
Touché.

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:54 pm
by Peter Duggan
Nanohedron wrote:I was rather mystified by the wholesale upwelling of tears
I'm not. It's one of the great simple tunes or tune/harmony combinations... tightly shaped, powerful and loaded with further meaning by the words now effectively (before Richard appears to tell us it's actually 'New Britain') synonymous with it. It's just naturally stirring, whether or not that particular arrangement (with or without distractively hyperactive whistle) does it for you.

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:04 pm
by ecadre
... as well as all the above, it isn't a "full, classical orchestra". It's a concert orchestra.

Re: whistle, front + center !

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:04 pm
by Nanohedron
Peter Duggan wrote:It's just naturally stirring ...
It can be. For me it entirely depends on the version, the delivery, and the occasion (which makes an argument that I'm a lot more sensitive than people might think :wink: ). Rieu used the melodic version that does it for me, but he lost me by dipping deep into the mawk-pot. But if that's what his audience wants, then fair play. I'm not his audience.