Ghostface Killah conducts Handel and Haydn?
By BStu - 1/14/08 - 11:13 am
Maybe Boston.com's staff is out making snow angels, but they let an amusing problem slip past them. If you look for a review of Friday's concert by the Handel and Haydn Society, you'll find a big picture of the Wu-Tang clan and a by-line from pop music critic Sarah Rodman. The text, however, is actually the review of Handel and Haydn's concert. (Screenshot here for when the Globe fixes it)
Likewise, if you want a review of the Wu-Tang performances, you'll find no photo a by-line for Classical critic David Perkins. (Again, screenshot here)
Maybe this is the Globe's way of suggesting that Handel and Haydn bring in Method Man for next year's Messiah concert.
Comments
That's hilarious! I'm glad
By eileen (not verified) - 1/14/08 - 12:23 pm
That's hilarious! I'm glad you noticed.
I would pay
By Caroline (not verified) - 1/14/08 - 1:40 pm
I would pay to see Method Man involved with the Messiah!
Boston Magazine on the case, too
By BStu - 1/14/08 - 1:46 pm
Boston Magazine spotted this about the same time as I did. And I do realize that I should full disclosure that I do work for Handel and Haydn, though not Wu-Tang.
So you can make this
By Miss M (not verified) - 1/14/08 - 3:11 pm
So you can make this Ghostface Killah thing happen, yes? Actually, didn't RZA score a few movies? Maybe you could get him!
Metallica has been known to
By Mollynotloggedin (not verified) - 1/14/08 - 3:22 pm
Metallica has been known to perform with symphony orchestras. I don't think this is too far of a stretch.
There's A Simpsons Quote For Everything
By Michael - 1/14/08 - 3:33 pm
"Who is playing with the London Symphony Orchestra? Come on, people, somebody ordered the London Symphony Orchestra...posssibly while high...Cypress Hill, I'm looking in your direction..."
Admittedly
By BStu - 1/14/08 - 3:38 pm
I actually wished I had gotten to see Ben Folds play with the Pops last year, too. (though not as much after the fight)
Handel and Haydn, though is a period-instrument orchestra so we generally perform on instruments that were either built when the music was composed or are modern reproductions. I'm pretty sure the Gibson Flying V came a little while after Beethoven, so I think its out of our genre.
I was going to make a joke about a flying V lute, but evidently Gibson actually did make one, which is funnier to me than my joke would have been.
BSO
By Suldog - 1/14/08 - 3:47 pm
Brian Setzer Orchestra, that is.
Off the original topic, but I just received their "Wolfgang's Big Night Out" CD for Christmas. All adaptations of classical pieces for Big Band, with some amazing guitar all the way through. Highly recommended.
Suldog
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