GRAINGER Children’s March, “Over the Hills and Far A...

"Biz, what's your favorite piece you've ever played and/or conducted?" Still have this one memorized! Click only the nice music video and not this plurk unless you want to learn something amazingly horrible about the composer.

Good ol' Percy was a masochist who enjoyed being chained to the wall and whipped by children.

"Biz... Biz... this song is called 'Children's March.'" I KNOW. I KNOW, OKAY.

welp

It's... a really fun piece to play...

It is a lovely piece! And I appreciate the info, haha

I think I was fifteen and playing in my first grown-up ensemble when the director just whipped that tidbit out.

sdlkjlk oh my god

Weirdly enough, I knew another song with the same title. Totally different song, by Nightwish. It sings about adultery in a weirdly positive way, so that was fun

We think of composers as stodgy old men wrapped in paper reams of music theory and it mostly turns out that composing is just viable career path for lunatics who like math and making sounds.

And probably also they really enjoy fart jokes.

Nice Amadeus reference

Mozart giggling in the distance

Mozart lived for poop jokes. And a lot of other popular composers were giant weirdos like Tchaikovsky, who was so happy he had a patron say "make music for me but no eye contact" or Ravel's tiny doll house obsession...

Right? Tchaikovsky out here living the dream. "Make music but never talk to me or even acknowledge me in public."