Posted on 04/07/2011 7:40:01 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Classical music still effective at dispersing loitering teens
April 4, 2011 | 9:00am
With all sorts of the funding cuts hitting orchestras during the recent recession, there is still one aspect of classical music that local governments find valuable -- the music's unfailing ability to disperse loitering teenagers from public areas.
Whether its Handel piped into New York's Port Authority or Tchaikovsky at a public library in London, the sound of classical music is apparently so repellent to teenagers that it sends them scurrying away like frightened mice. Private institutions also find it useful: chains such as McDonald's and 7-Eleven, not to mention countless shopping malls around the world, have relied on classical music to shoo away potentially troublesome kids.
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"I've got a little Liszt. I've got a little Liszt. Some Bach, Beethoven, Mozart too. I've got a little Liszt."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
more evidence that the sense of life projected by the music one hates is a clue to one's own sense of life
I love Chris—he rocks! ‘Hysteria’ is pretty much my favorite of their songs, but it’s hard to choose. My daughter was playing ‘Assassin’ on Guitar Hero the other night. She said ‘that wasn’t so bad.’ I told her if she could play the bass from ‘Hysteria,’ she could die happy ;) She rolled her eyes at me because she knows that song, and knows it would be impossible for her! LOL
All my kids (ages almost 13 down to 3.5) love ‘Time is Running Out’ BTW :)
They had hundreds of music rolls - Gershwin playing Gershwin (how cool is that?), and my personal fave, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 played by Jan Ignaz Paderiewski - the definitive recording of that piece IMHO (most pianists think it's a race to the finish and they play it entirely too fast - it needs to ebb and flow).
When I was 12 or 13 my grandfather called me on my birthday and played the entire roll for me over the phone. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, but then again, I've always been pretty geeky.
FWIW a comic strip a few years back tried to turn the tables and accuse deployers of classical music of ethnic stereotyping. A rapper dude bops into a business and asks,
“What it is, ma man? That be Schubert’s “Trout Quintet” you playin’ now?
“Why, uh, yes. You..you like it?
“Right on, dude! Ol’ Franz baby, he my DAWG!!
(Yeah, right)
Who did the better job, Tom or Bugs Bunny?
I don’t know too much of Moby’s work, but I don’t think so. Maybe a more knowledgeable FReeper would be able to comment on that. Muse has one of the best bass players ever.
Maybe not a good one, but yes.
I dunno...my 5 year-old often asks us to play Pavarotti when we get in the car...
FWIW a comic strip a few years back tried to turn the tables and accuse deployers of classical music of ethnic stereotyping. A rapper dude bops into a business and asks,
“What it is, ma man? That be Schubert’s “Trout Quintet” you playin’ now?
“Why, uh, yes. You..you like it?
“Right on, dude! Ol’ Franz baby, he my DAWG!!
(Yeah, right)
Are you familiar with the Mummers parade in Philly every New Years Day? 10 or 12 years ago one of the clubs had 50 guys dressed as Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble choreographed to "Hooked on a Feeling." Brilliant and hilarious.
Play Kenny G. and you’ll disperse most of us!
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