Classical Music
Related: About this forumSo, I have a good friend who's basically a musical genius and thinks the 9th is a hack.
He can respectably sight-play anything on piano, guitar, bass or drums. Went to Berklee on scholarship and is a major player on the Warped Tour nowadays (not gonna say exactly what he does, for fear of my ID).
Honestly, he's also an arrogant prick. I told him I was deeply upset that I missed the NY Philharmonic performing The Ninth and he said "Why? Because Beethoven was deaf? I write shit sight unseen all the time. My finals at school were no instruments..Mozart, Liszt, wrote in stagecoaches. I can write that shit blind now."
What do I say?
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,640 posts)I'd say "You're entitled to your opinion." and let it go at that.
sir pball
(4,743 posts)I did offer to stab him in the ears and let him write better though
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)There is no good reason to even debate his assertion.
sir pball
(4,743 posts)When he said this in the bar I asked him if he ever sound-checked. He admitted he did. I then asked if he had ever written an orchestra AND chorus blind...and he got me very drunk.
FYI...write " target="_blank">this blind.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Then he can say that. Until then, he comes off, as you say, as an arrogant prick.