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cellochris99
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(9/26/00 4:06:45 am)
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To
Sopher
Sopher,
Don't give up on
playing cello just because some person thinks this or says that!
Like you, I play many instruments. In fact, I also play guitar in an
amatuer rock band. I love playing my synthesizer all night too!
'Even played Alto sax with all kinds of crazy people. I am being
absolutely honest here: after a while you can recognize good playing
just by listening with you ears. You can tell if the guy on bass
guitar is giving it 100%, or just plunking down some notes until he
gets paid.
Do you realize how many musicians have been
kicked out of bands and all the quarrels because of stuff like
this?! Put yourself in the composer's position: you've worked your
@#$! off for months creating this refined piece of work with your
name on it just to have someone poop on it at Carnegie Hall!? I know
this sounds like snobbery and I've felt like you before.
I
fell in love with the cello long before I cared about Yo Yo or any
other of the "cello masters". I fell in love with it's sound while
listening to the Star Wars soundtrack! over and over. The cello is
beautiful spite of the environment around it at the time, or in the
past. I'm looking for ways to utilize it's beauty far beyond the
classical realm. It's amazing what you can do with multitrack rec.
and a cello!
Chris
Edited by: cellochris99
at: 9/26/00 4:06:45 am
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Sopher
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(9/26/00 6:58:46 am)
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Thanks
- I hope Yo-Yo Jr reads this,
Chris,
Thanks for the
consideration. If you review the original thread it goes something
like this:
Yo-Yo Jr says "hey ain't Yo-Yo the
bomb"
Sopher adds support as "I saw him too - pretty
good"
a little later BA adds (I paraphrase) "It's too bad
that these dweebs are so ignorant that they like Yo-Yo instead of a
bunch of dead guys".
I objected and the sh*t hit the fan from
there!
I thought that was a pretty heavyhanded reply to
someone who was obviously enthusiastic about the cello (Yo-Yo Jr).
And I think we haven't heard from Jr since, who may still be
cowering under his bed hiding from the onslaught that BA and others
unleashed. So many here need to apologize to Yo-Yo Jr and hopefully
he has not been permanently put off this forum - I'm a big boy and I
can take care of myself and I'm not easily discouraged, but others
may be more fragile. If I put myself in the place of Yo-Yo Jr I
might not consider this forum a very welcoming place and I might be
inclined to never post again. So I apologize to Yo-Yo Jr for the
nasty scene and I encourage others to do the same. I am proud to
have been the lightning rod that deflected the voltage from him and
allowed him to make his escape undetected
though.
Sopher
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OyOy
Registered User
(9/26/00 8:47:31 am)
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You're
not by any chance from Canada, are you?
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Sopher
Registered User
(9/26/00 8:57:46 am)
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Not a
Canuck
OyOy, if you're asking me, I'm from
the great Midwest (Ohio). I believe my post on the earlier thread
indicated I had just seen Yo-Yo in Cleveland.
Sopher
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Sopher
Registered User
(9/26/00 10:58:14 am)
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Chris,
tell me more!
Chris,
I don't think I
explored your gracious response sufficiently. I too am in love with
the beautiful sound of the cello and would like to apply it in a
non-classical context. I wonder what the equivalent of fiddler is
for the cello (oh yeah, they are both dirtbags! ;-) )?
I
would be very interested in hearing some of your stuff. Also, do you
know of instances of cello used in jazz or pop or rock that I could
explore.
FYI, I have played the guitar for 35 years or so
(left-handed, that must explain my contrarian nature) and have added
the saxes and clarinet in recent years. My focus is almost
exclusively on improvisation these days which perhaps explains my
difficulty with the classical music mindset. I have found the sax to
be the most expressive instrument so far but I have great interest
in the cello. I would like to use the cello for free improvisation.
I play the sax in the community band which keeps my reading skills
intact (and gives me a nice night out with my wife the french
hornist) but I'm not especially interested in reading - I'd rather
create. I like the quote of unrecalled source who said that the
composer has an infinity of time to decide how to fill up a minute
of music, while the improvisor has exactly 60 seconds to do
it.
We have an intermittent group we call the "Quirky
Quartet" which has violin, tenor sax, french horn, and trombone,
which plays occasionally (mostly Holiday stuff at small venues). I
gave up electric rock guitar about 25 years ago, although I will
occasionally treat the neighborhood kids to a power chord crunch
with my able assistant, Mr. BIAB. Guitar now is mostly neo-classical
fingerstyle stuff - I like Fahey, Kottke, Peter Lang, etc.
Sorry about that - you must by now know more about me that
you want - let me know any cello stuff you think would interest me
and I will run off and check it out!
Thanks
again!
Sopher
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BA
Registered User
(9/26/00 2:47:40 pm)
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I
dunno- I'm starting to miss Quarles...
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SlavaBilly
Registered User
(9/26/00 4:18:36 pm)
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Where's
Theo when you need him?
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Corrina
Connor
Registered
User
(9/26/00 8:53:05 pm)
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Re:
Thanks - I hope Yo-Yo Jr reads this,
Well, I hope that Yo-Yo Jr will read
this, and then go out and find recordings by some of these dead
guys, and not necesarily think "hey, what an idiot I was for liking
Mr Ma", but
"hey, I am so glad that I've heard some different
interpretations of this music, and learnt something about the
history of cello playing too."
OK, that's corny, I'm sorry!
YoYo Jr may find something s/he really loves in every
performance, including those by Mr Ma  and will have
broadened his/her musical understanding.
However I don't
advocate hiding under the bed - Up and Atom!
Perhaps,
primarily we should be happy that YoYo Jr is listening to cello
music and loving it?
~Corrina~
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