h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Gack! The dreaded non-reply.

I just checked and we still haven't put that back log on the bonfire.

I've scheduled the fireworks extravaganza for the next fourteen nights and the orchestra will arrive soon for the 1812 overture -- the cannon are already in place and the I'm having a few carilon towers built as fast as the bells can be cast. We'll have to make do with these strings of jingle bells and the dinner bell till then. Watch the conductor for the cue.

Don't worry about the militia, they're just here to tend to the cannon.

I understand we are starting off with some Prokoviev till dusk sets in and the rockets can glare properly in a dark sky.

Please start when you are ready, maestro.

Oh! He told me that the band could feel free to play along. There are extra washboards and thimbles for those who want them.

Now, where did I set that jar? Oh, Blue! Darn it. Okay, I'll just scrape this off the top over the porch edge and let it self-sterilize. That may actually taste better! But, I won't know till I get to the bottom of the jar and start another. Any one want a taste?

Barton

I wonder how the 1812 overture will turn out this time. Last time I played it publicly was in a performance of three massed bands/orchestras where I happened to be in all three - playing different instruments! It had been very confusing/difficult switching between desks for the other pieces played by the individual orchestras throughout the evening but for the 1812 I could only manage to be in one place at one time.

Does anyone have any plans to play the house at all? We could probably do something with the resonant frequency of the chimney. Many rooms have a natural resonant frequency but not all are very useful. Then there are the roof slates and the picket fence (or slatted walls?) which might be like a huge washboard.

Its very now to be playing Prokofiev, 2 of the proms I went to at the Royal Albert Hall, were Prokofiev!

Tomorrow, for my last prom, its conducted by Bobby McFerrin!! With another Prokofiev - Symphony No 1, Vivaldis' Concerto in G minor, Mozarts Symphony 25, Dukas - Sorcerers Apprentice and Ravels Bolero, and lets not forget McFerrins own vocal improvisations?!

Don't worry, be happy?!

Oh and of course we shall be in the Royal Box as usual, last time Moonglum was asked if he was royalty!! We always get peered at by the boxes next door, as they want to see who we are!!

This is probably not the place for this posting, but you did mention Prokofiev, and I got carried away, so there.

Either Kaz tried the shine, or else the fumes are really strong

Why not use the Royal Box, if no one else is using it?

Otherwise, it's only polite to ask them to make a bit of room on the end. Remember be firm but don't insist.

Barton

No-one is allowed to use the Royal Box unless they have permission, you need a palace authorised ticket.

I think the fumes must be strong. I've been rather dizzy all day. I hope it isn't something worse but perhaps there isn't anything worse than that shine.

Considering there's a hole in the board now, I think you may be right...

Lieutenant Kiji
The march from "Love for three oranges"
Cinderella (ballet)
Romeo and Juliet )ballet)
Peter and the Wolf

( for Symphony)

Prokofiev never wrote no music for this here kinda harp, so I'll jus' sit this'un out.


Count Zero, puttin' his 'harp back in his pocket.

That's a pity, as harp music is sublime.

Handel wrote a harp concerto, but he also transcribed it for organ.
Faure's "Cantique de Jean Racine" can be accompanied
either by orchestra, or by solo harp.
I have heard lute music played on harps. Or guitars.
The lute lost its primacy in the early 17th century when the
harpsichord was invented. Thus, you will sometimes hear music
meant for lute played on the harpsichord. Or vice versa.
I have also heard Scarlatti's harpsichord sonatas played on
guitar, to good effect. I'd like to hear them on harp as well.

Sorry about the rambling, Count Zero. My point (and I do have
one, if I can find it at the bottom of this tall stack of
papers ) is that there might be Prokofiev pieces not
meant for harp that might nevertheless be transcribed.

*looks around for red shock wig, dirty raincoat,scissors & bulb horn*

I have lots of scissors but none of the other things.

Sorry Paul, you're absolutely correct, but I'm not playin' that kinda harp.
My 'harp sounds like this:



It's a juice[sic] harp. This here porch had a bit of a appalachian/cajun/ozark/(insert your favorite coloquial countryness region here) feel to it so while we were drinking moonshine and sasparilly I pulled out this here twangy trump. I'm fairly certain that Prokofiev ne'er wrote nuthin for this here type of 'harp. If'n he did, I wanna here it!

Count Zero, who has trouble snappin' outta this accent sometime'

Perhaps we should dig him up and commission a piece for jaw-harp and didgeridoo with optional washboard and spoons parts. I don't know if anyone here can play a didgeridoo but I suddenly thought it might go quite well in tone with the jaw-harp. I have one such type of harp with several metal prongs but there is another type with just one prong to twang where all the pitch adjustment is done with the mouth. Is one of those the type you have CZ?

Yeppers. <teethmissing>

Oooh! Didgeridoo with banjo, jaw harp, washtub gee-tar an' a full set o concert viOlins should sound real good.

Count Zero, gettin' more hillbilly by the second.

*wonders why Granny doesn't just get some mufflewhumps, as she knows how they work*

Came by to make sure blue is feed and watered with all this moonshine and fireworks folks might forget about him.
*blue likes the harp*