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July 08, 2010
Vuvuzela Concerto in B-flat
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That's very funny.
It amazes me that one of the most musical countries in the world has produced this sonic monstrosity.
Posted by: Sir Charles | July 08, 2010 at 02:54 PM
They're not new. I can remember putting up with the damn things at a college football game when I was just nine or ten years old.
Posted by: oddjob | July 08, 2010 at 03:57 PM
insistendo quasi le vespe.
Awesome.
Posted by: litbrit | July 08, 2010 at 04:16 PM
I missed that! LOL!
Posted by: oddjob | July 08, 2010 at 04:40 PM
(However, since there's no orchestration for any other instrument it probably should be more properly entitled "Vuvuzela Sonata in B Flat".)
Posted by: oddjob | July 08, 2010 at 04:42 PM
But I think it would still be a concerto, oddjob, since there are more than one of them playing.
Posted by: litbrit | July 08, 2010 at 04:46 PM
It could be a suite or sonata or concerto.
Posted by: John Hahn | July 08, 2010 at 05:05 PM
Hard not to be waspish, isn't it?
But seriously, just yesterday I posted on the full musical scope of the vuvuzela, with a little help from the good musicians of the Berlin Konzerthaus.
Posted by: Sungold | July 08, 2010 at 06:49 PM
Sungold, brilliant, brilliant! I am sending your link all over creation!
Posted by: Lisa Simeone | July 08, 2010 at 07:36 PM
omg, sungold -- fabulous!
Posted by: kathy a. | July 08, 2010 at 08:07 PM
Sungold, thank you ever so much for that. I'm so impressed! The Bolero bit got me thinking that if Frank Zappa were still alive, he'd have been all over the Vuvuzela, as he was often working the strangest of instruments (and non-instruments) into his works. I agree that the musicians were probably brass players.
I'm also impressed with anyone who can speak German. I tried, I really did, but my brain's grammar elves had already been commandeered by the Romance languages.
Still, I can wish you Guten nacht.
Posted by: litbrit | July 08, 2010 at 11:40 PM
The Dark Wraith's take on it all. :)
Posted by: oddjob | July 08, 2010 at 11:48 PM