Ok, I've joined the youtube video uploaders generation. Guess there's no turning back:) I figured as long as everyone else seems to have copies of tapes of Dad and are posting them, that I might as well join the throng. Although I'm sure the calvacade of posts, "more please, please, pleaase!!!... etc" is inevitable. Anyway now that I have my vhs to dvd converter and the latest MS movie maker it shouldn't be too hard.
And here is the Youtube link to video snippet
Funny ending on it. Enjoy!
December 29, 2008
December 21, 2008
Concerts and Coughing
Recently, I re-discovered this little solo excerpt from a live concert from 2000. Although at the time I was pretty annoyed, when I listen now, I can't help but crack up at the gentleman in the audience apparently in need of a lung operation during the performance.
When I think on it I realize now that coughing during a concert is an established nuisance universally tolerated but secretly despised by performers and other audience members alike probably since the dawn of time.
Picture if you will, the archetypal moment with all performers throughout the ages: bear skinned caveman over mastadon bones, angelic youth in a toga with aulos, Franz Liszt & Bugs Bunny in tux and finally myself at piano - arched back, clubs raised, hair and long ears thrown back, with arms raised ready to begin when suddenly...
"HAACKKKKKKKKKK...cough..cough ..COUGGGGGGH!!... kaff....................kaff kaff!!
What is it about quiet moments requiring rapt attention that elicits the worst coughing fits imaginable? Any ideas?
I think most of us would have liked to have used Bugs' "take matters into his own hands" solution featured in below video. But I guess the rest of us will have to imagine it in our heads.
Enjoy
Bugs Bunny and Franz Liszt
Jon Raney
When I think on it I realize now that coughing during a concert is an established nuisance universally tolerated but secretly despised by performers and other audience members alike probably since the dawn of time.
Picture if you will, the archetypal moment with all performers throughout the ages: bear skinned caveman over mastadon bones, angelic youth in a toga with aulos, Franz Liszt & Bugs Bunny in tux and finally myself at piano - arched back, clubs raised, hair and long ears thrown back, with arms raised ready to begin when suddenly...
"HAACKKKKKKKKKK...cough..cough ..COUGGGGGGH!!... kaff....................kaff kaff!!
What is it about quiet moments requiring rapt attention that elicits the worst coughing fits imaginable? Any ideas?
I think most of us would have liked to have used Bugs' "take matters into his own hands" solution featured in below video. But I guess the rest of us will have to imagine it in our heads.
Enjoy
Bugs Bunny and Franz Liszt
Jon Raney
December 20, 2008
To a Fan
Just a note. The other day I got a very nice email/note to my Jon Raney website email from a pianist fan from Boston, MA. I reviewed it and was about to answer it the following morning, but somehow the email just vanished. It was nowhere to be found. I asked the admin at 1&1 email to try to recover it but they could not.
So, to the fan out there hailing from Boston, MA thanks for the note and sorry for misplacing your email and I hope you visit again to the blog or jonraney.com.
Sincerely,
Jon Raney
So, to the fan out there hailing from Boston, MA thanks for the note and sorry for misplacing your email and I hope you visit again to the blog or jonraney.com.
Sincerely,
Jon Raney
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