Random Music Thought

[fredericks]

J.S. Bach's Ciaccona (Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004): the Baroque Era :: Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby" : the Seventies. I can just imagine Bach bringing his work to some 18th century Bavarian duke or what have you, performing it, and then being told "it's hot, dawg [in German, mind], but I need it to be long enough to screw to...can you add, say, ten minutes?" Hence a musical marvel is born. Oh, the lovin' that can be soundtracked by this interpretation. Arthur Grimaux = teh man.

Comments

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

should i even make a joke about bach's twenty children? should i?

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

*grin* You should and did. Beautiful.

[klaw.livejournal.com]

Ten minutes?

C'mon, you can do better than THAT. :)

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

It works out to 13 or so when all's said and done and this isn't a commentary on my stamina! *grin* I'm just saying the music sounds a bit padded. Certainly you've heard the story behind the Summer song.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

I believe the phrase you're looking for would be "Mensch, das ist ja geil."

0=)

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

lol! You rock, A.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

Geil has two meanings: cool, and horny. Possibly my favorite german word ever.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Okay, I knew about "cool", I did not know about "horny".

This whole mental episode is making me want to learn German even more, btw.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

Horny is the older defination, or why your grandma would wrinkle her nose if she heard you use it. As I understand it, it didn't start meaning "cool" until the 60s or so.

I just discovered that CUNY Grad offers German Cont Ed classes.