Figures Of...... Musicians

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The bride's is phenomenal!

I did this during a recital many years ago: I had to play, I believe, De Falla's Danza flamenca. So far so good. I finish the piece and I leave my watch on top of the piano. Shortly after, my teacher had to accompany a lyrical cantata and in the middle of Verdi's "Brindisi", the alarm clock goes off: the singer glared at my teacher, not knowing that the watch was mine!

I'll tell you mine too...

I should preface that I have always been afraid of playing from memory in front of an audience; I look at the sheet music very little or not at all, but knowing it is in front of me gives me a certain security.

We are at the recital that my piano teacher organized every year in different places; that time we were in Nemi, I think. My turn arrives and I had to play Schubert's Impromptu Op. 90 no. 3. After arguing and re-arguing, my teacher convinces me to play from memory. In the middle of the piece, there was total silence, only music, until this silence was interrupted by a cell phone ring that sounded less like a mobile ringtone and more like an old analog phone with a bell instead of a ringtone. I completely lost it, having lost my concentration, and a flash came to mind like a bolt from the blue, lasting mere fractions of a second, of my father, who with his usual nonchalance said to me: "If you forget everything, what's the problem? Just do ta, ta and finish it like that (the ta ta was pitched as a dominant seventh-tonic)". Moral of the story, I actually concluded with a dominant seventh and tonic. In the audience, I saw two types of faces... The experts who looked at me stunned as if to say: "What the hell did he just do? Is he crazy?" and the others who applauded happily as if mine had been a great performance! I won't hide my embarrassing moment... combined with anger towards those who didn't turn off their cell phones...

Another embarrassing moment...

In this case, we are at the communion of a friend's son. I have quite a lot of audio equipment and they had asked me to bring speakers and a MIDI synthesizer to do some karaoke. Outdoor lunch, parents, grandparents, friends and relatives of my friend, 2000 watts blasting because the garden is quite large, synthesizer on and 150,000 MIDI karaoke tracks (Downloaded from the internet, 80% of which I have no clue what they even are). Moral of the story, my friend's wife asks me to sing the song 'Brutta' by Canino. I should preface that I knew the very simple little tune but didn't know a single word. Confident in the fact that the words would appear on the screen, I set out to sing this song. I put it on play, the music starts and the words appear (I should mention that even at the first verse I had serious doubts about the reliability of the text, but I was already underway and as long as it didn't drop too low in quality I could continue; only later did I discover that the text had been modified by Tony Tammaro):

"You were a little cutie,"

no one ever told you:

how pretty you are.

Today you are thirty-eight and nothing has changed,

in fact, you've even lost a few teeth.

All your friends,

have the man with the Ferrari,

are much cooler,

you look in the mirror

and you don't feel on their level...

In fact, they don't give a damn about you!"

At this point I refused to go on, after seeing the shocked faces of the grandmothers 😛

As you can well imagine, it is certainly not a song suitable for a communion... 😆

Speaking of cell phones. During a celebration, at a certain point, a friend of mine had to perform an improvised musical piece. He was about to put his hands on the keyboard when, in the silence, the ringtone of a Nokia cell phone is heard with the classic theme that those brand's phones have.

Well, he improvised a beautiful fugue over it using the nokiatune theme. Imagine the faces of those present and especially the lady whose cell phone had rung......

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