Earlier this year I read somewhere--and now I can't remember where, but perhaps in one of Phil Laak or Jennifer Tilly's columns in Bluff magazine--about how the players in this season's PartyPoker Big Game series got to pick their own entrance music, the theme that would be played upon their grand entrance to the poker rooom.
It's not especially likely that I'll be invited to play on that or any other televised poker show anytime soon, but upon reading that, surely I'm not the only one who starts imagining what music I'd pick should that miraculous day ever come.
It didn't take me long to decide. For as long as I can remember, there has been one piece of music that for me most perfectly embodies the idea of triumph, which is what I would want to convey in that kind of setting. No, it's not the theme from "Rocky" (though that's not half bad). It's the final movement of Beethoven's Symphony #7.
So if you ever hear that the Poker Grump is going to be appearing on the Big Game, here's what you can expect to hear as I am seen walking through the casino door. This is a performance conducted by the man who could put the brio in an allegro con brio like nobody else, the late, great Leonard Bernstein. Enjoy.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
What would you pick?
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I feel the same way about the final movement in the the 9th. Solti did a fine job conducting the Chicago Symphony.
I don't think you could have picked a better song, although I admit I'm a bit of a Beethoven fanboy.
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Um, that piece is over seven minutes... never seen the show you're writing about but I'd be surprised if they could use more than a few seconds of it.
Gotta say, I am disappointed, Grump, not a very inspiring movement at all.
Wouldn't "Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off To Work We Go" from Sleeping Beauty be more appropriate?
I'd have to go with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWVP64BEUyo&
Oh...and hate to be a Disney movie nit, but "Heigh Ho" is from Snow White.
I'd probably have to pick Aaron Copeland's Grand Canyon Suite (or parts of it, lol).
The Grand Canyon Suite is by Ferde Grofe, not Copland. And yes, I'm enough of a musical nerd that I knew that without looking it up. Perhaps you meant Billy the Kid, or Appalachian Spring or El Salon Mexico or Rodeo?
That's actually a game my gf and I play at college baseball games (where the players usually get to pick the song that plays as they come up to bat). I always thought it would be fun to use music wildly inappropriate to the competitive atmosphere - something like "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies" or "Yakety Sax."
-Chuck
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