making fun with classical music
Igudesman & Joo – Making fun with classical music
Aleksey Igudesman, violinist, composer
Hyung-ki Joo, pianist, composer
What would happen if classical music could have all of the professionalism of virtuosic performing but none of the stereotypical uptightness? What if classical music met SNL (Saturday Night Live) skit and took a page from South Park?
1.) Introduction: Igudesman & Joo solve all of classical music’s problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8tgYh93cuQ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
2.) Original: Bach-Gounod version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyUhEjtlDLA (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Igudesman & Joo: Being John Sebastian Bach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A95yzVgBTs (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
3.) Original: Rachmaninoff Prelude Op 3 No 2 in C Sharp minor, performed by Evgeny Kissin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCm9O2KNEX4 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Igudesman & Joo: Rachmaninov had big hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
4.) Original: La Cucaracha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_7aieGEMQ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Gipsy Kings version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VILr1xH3io (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Igudesman & Joo: Violin Duet: La Cucaracha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj8iDDx1k38 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
5.) Mozart will Survive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS1-lxD9Cbs (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
6.) Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecG6c30THp0 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Assignment:
First, I hope you found some humor in all of this. Clips 1-4 will introduce you to who Igudesman & Joo are and what they are doing. Clip 5 is one culmination of their work. Clip 6 is an interview that starts off rambling a bit, but it does get good after a point. Part of the process appreciating music appreciating the process, so I’d like you to go through it. Write something that has coherent thought. As with so many of the open-ended assignments that I give, you’re welcome to take the responses in any direction you feel appropriate. Your responses should demonstrate that you’ve thought about the clips, not just passively consumed it.
For the following clips:
Watch and reflect. Respond as you did in the assignment above.
7.) What Bose Headphones can do for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGwWnpKqHI (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
8.) Vogue the Violin – Funk the String
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a0mlf69-34 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
9.) The Cyber Conductor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFltd2838gc (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
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Classical music has been seen to be in a class of its own as this genre is mostly thought to be serious in nature. The lovers of classical music are therefore not too many but those that are, are very loyal to this genre of music. When evaluating how classical music can be made fun we have to evaluate Igudesman and Joo as these two artists have made unique attempts to make classical music fun.
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