Chamber music on board

[jimi]

I've always though a yacht a perfect place for a Chamber music string quartet with the cello player seated in the heads, the viola perched in the companionway and the two violinists wedged in seaberths .. has anyone tried this and if so what music did they find to be the most effective in calling to the dolphins?

 

[Anchorite]

Re: Haydn in the loo? (nm)

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[Twister_Ken]

Not chamber music, but

Brittens Sea Suite, from Peter Grimes.

(actually, Wee Jim's describing a bog-standard string quartet - what we really need is a proper chamber orchestra.)

 

[jhr]

Dolphins

I believe that Dolphins find The Water Music quite easy to Handel, but then they are afishionadoes of the Baroque.

Does this count as a cetacean citation?

 

[Marmalade]

A harpist situated just by the Dali hung in the cabin might do it?

 

[StugeronSteve]

The crew on jimi's boat are always har always pist.

 

[jhr]

Then of course, there are the Glen Rosa variations.

The piece starts out rudderless, without much sense of direction but soon morphs into a series of movements that build to a crescendo of increasing pressure, with the lingering sub-motif of an undiscovered place at the very heart of the boat. How? Why? - Who knows? Plainly not the captain of this mythical craft.

The finale uses a large cast of doppelgangers, with the keening of the Harridae providing a mournful counterpoint to the soprano soloist (traditionally played by a man masquerading as a woman).

This is followed by a brief coda, with the names of numerous fish set to a repetitive Gaelic chant.

 

[Talbot]

The only chamber music we have onboard is when a guest makes use of the heads! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[jimi]

I see GR as a harmonious place with the crew all pulling together in a noteworthy fashion getting the best performance out of a finely tuned craft!

 

[Kilter]

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I see GR as a harmonious place with the crew all pulling together in a noteworthy fashion getting the best performance out of a finely tuned craft!

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pulling cos you can't sail and the engine's broke? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Kilter]

No mention of Aubrey and Maturin summoning up dolphins so it clearly doesn't work!

 

[paddywackcocker]

Talbot thats pan piped music
Pat

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Jimi is beginning to unRavel... must be working too hard and suffering from Strauss..

He'll be Haydn in his boat after all this....

 

[Oldhand]

Nothing beats a piper on the foredeck IMHO.

 

[Oliveoyl]

I know for certain that dolphins and other intelligent sea mammals flee "Country" music like the plague. Rumour has it that the whale which swam up the Thames was trying to escape from Tammy Wynette.
Popeye is now warned that such stuff is not tolerated on board, and that if he ever tries it again, all his CD's will be rapidly consigned to a watery grave.

 

[longjohnsadler]

Re: Singin the Blues

If ye can fit a cello into the heids of an Oceanis 331 its no goin' to be playin much muzak...

 

[Slow_boat]

Hear about the lady you could, sing country music from her, erm, privates?

Nothing clever about that, any tw*t can do it!

 

[Kilter]

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Nothing beats a piper on the foredeck IMHO.

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Actually a piper attached to the anchor and dropped in to deep water wins every time! Start countdown before Sgeir comes skirling to the rescue of pipers! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Ships_Cat]

Like on the Titanic as it went down - they played a hymn I think, can't remember which, a jaunty "Life on the Ocean Waves" perhaps?

John

 

[jhr]

"Nearer My God to Thee" - though they appeared to be going down, rather than up.