Pianophilia

4candles wrote:

Timtin wrote:

tobyjj wrote:Oh! Charades

In Deutscher Sprache - CHARADES - spielen sie das auch in Deutschland sans linguistic frontieres -
Gosh what a misch masch!

This is one for Tim Tim, sans doubte.

Thanks Alfor.

tobyjj

Hi Tobyjj,

I am indeed always up for a spot of composer 'punditry', although the thread containing
musical wordplay has gone rather quiet of late, which is partly my own fault, of course.
Here is something I spotted on another forum yesterday:-

You can Telemann by where he likes to live. I just Toch a trip Orff into one of the Wilder areas Faure Wieck, and to be Verdi Franck, it nearly drove Menotti.
I know opinion Varese, but even Vivaldi urban noises, the Bizet traffic, De Falla engines, as well as knowing there are Mennin the streets Callas enough to knock your Bloch off. I couldn't resist the urge to Galuppi home early Satie, and I Haieff to say I Still prefer the Mitropoulos. The Boyce were Sor that I had Gibbons up and succumbed to the Riegger of the Field so easily, but I don't give a Schuetz.
I was practically Krein from my Severacs and Pains brought on by that brief time in the countryside! Even the sounds got my Dandrieu up; let me Liszt some of them: the Rorem of the wind, a constant Birtwhistle, the Menuhin of the Katz, the Lipatti-Patti-Glinka-Poulenc of the Reiner on the roof, the Gluck-Gluck of the hens, and every morning a woodpecker or some Byrd Chopin holes in a Tree. My only company was a Thorne Busch, a Partch of poison Ives, a Braun Babbit, and sometimes a Wolf, nothing Moore. For a Forrest Grainger it may be Fine - it may be the Katz Milhaud -- but I could have died of Borodin. A friend suggested my making this Tureck; "Abegg" his pardon, but I will never go Bach to those Gotterdaemmerung Hillis. They Suk!
No, I don't care for the Ruggles life. I like a good Mehul - - a little Suppe, some Szigeti, maybe some Salome at my local Taverner with a little lime Schubert after (even if they don't always clear the Crumbs off the table). And I like to Locatelli while I'm Eaton Maderna at night. Is that asking for Egk in Meyerbeer?
Nono! So many people Berio themselves under a Holst of problems they know they can't Handel. Their answer is too Offenbach to nature - - into Haydn, it seems to me. I Karajan a d'Indy life in the Berg for the most Paert. Maybe it isn't Perle Bliss for everybody, but it's Godunov for me.

Mine's paltry in comparison, but here is one I submitted to an Irish national newspaper a few years ago in response to a running chain of letters called 'Beethoven's Chopin Liszt', which talked up people's favourite composers and (I think) the state of live classical music in Ireland. I didn't make it too complicated, because of expectations of readership (justified or otherwise) and was restricted by space, but I was pleased with it.
Unfortunately they never printed it...

Sir, - I too had a Harty laugh when reading Tan Dun Ravel-ling all the
Ries-cent pieces in this veritable symphony of a topic, especially
when De Falla was being so Pergo-lesi with his "4'33" sorbet" (but he
Berlioz an apology and I Schütt really raise my Glass to him - you're
Litolff the hook Mr Treacy!).
Nyman new voice here - and I don't want to confess Tubin a Suk - but
Kodály be brass-h and suggest that, living as we do in Ireland, we
Alkan st-Reich all these previous composers Orff our Liszts and begin
Agnew? If so, I'd be glad to Tournemire to any further Bar-Torke
because, as I Verdi suggested, it's a great theme with some fantastic
players! Now I must compose myself and stop writing before my Hans
Rott! - Yours, etc

4c