Most cliche'd piece of classical music

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"Figaro Figaro Figaro" Bugs Bunny

[urtextmeister]

I am surprised no one has mentioned this since we are close to the holiday season.

NUTCRACKER

What would holiday advertising be without Trepak, Waltz of the Flowers and Sugar Plum to name but three selections?

[Gurn Blanston]

Originally posted by urtextmeister:
I am surprised no one has mentioned this since we are close to the holiday season.

NUTCRACKER

What would holiday advertising be without Trepak, Waltz of the Flowers and Sugar Plum to name but three selections?

You are so right! How could I have forgotten?



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[Rutradelusasa]

How about those famous Italian Operas?
-Musetta´s waltz (from Là Boheme)
-Opening from Il Guarany (from Carlos Gomes, here in Brazil we can´t take it anymore, they play only the first measures of it, again and again and again)
-Choruses and marchs from Verdi´s Operas

(Did anyone mention this?) CARMINA BURANA!

Also, check your cell phone, it has THE selection from such pieces, I´m sorry for the composers...

[This message has been edited by Rutradelusasa (edited December 09, 2003).]

[Pastorali]

Could also be a candidate:
J. S. Bach: Overture Nr.3 "Air"

[urtextmeister]

Rutradelusasa,

I agree with your examples except for the second one, which I have never heard of.

Is the term "cliche" really appropriate? If I utter a cliche, I am saying something that has been said so many times before that it no longer has meaning. When much of this music was written, it was original and even brilliant. It is only our over playing it that has made it a cliche.

Beethoven's fifth, for instance is still a great piece, even though it has become a huge cliche.

[Rutradelusasa]

Originally posted by urtextmeister:
Rutradelusasa,

I agree with your examples except for the second one, which I have never heard of.
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If you want, I can give you the mp3, but I don't know where could I put it. Contact me if you want the mp3.

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It must be difficult for music directors to
present Grand Opera's such as Carmen,La Boheme, and Madame Butterfly in fresh new light. The public hates to see anything but what they are expecting,and rail against minimilest set designs and a Mimi with piercings.But from what I understand one needs 5 Mimis or Carmens to cover one performance of a new work at the box office.

Another too oft heard chestnut, Handel's "Largo"

[Beyond Within]

if it hasnt been mentioned: Rossinis Barber, and cindarella.

Also, that flute concerto by mozart that also goes by the name "twinkle twinkle little star"

Someone else mentioned in another thread the third movement of Chopins first piano sonata.

[SR]

Originally posted by Beyond Within:
Also, that flute concerto by mozart that also goes by the name "twinkle twinkle little star"

Thats a set of piano variations in C, K 265.
It's based on a French folk melody "Ah, vous dirai-je Maman" It means basically "I will tell you Mom" I don't have a clue how twinkling stars got involved.

Steve

[beetlover]

Originally posted by urtextmeister:
I am surprised no one has mentioned this since we are close to the holiday season.

NUTCRACKER

What would holiday advertising be without Trepak, Waltz of the Flowers and Sugar Plum to name but three selections?

Another thing from Tchaikovsky is Romeo and Juliet, not the entire thing but the part in the middle. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I hear it everywhere!

[Rutradelusasa]

Originally posted by beetlover:
Another thing from Tchaikovsky is Romeo and Juliet, not the entire thing but the part in the middle. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I hear it everywhere!

Sure, just get in The Sims your Simguy to kiss a Simgirl and you'll hear it .

[beetlover]

Originally posted by Rutradelusasa:
Sure, just get in The Sims your Simguy to kiss a Simgirl and you'll hear it .

LOL

[Pastorali]

To mention it today: André Rieux, that guy sucks

[Rutradelusasa]

Originally posted by Pastorali:
To mention it today: André Rieux, that guy sucks

Along with Sara Brightman, Charlotte Church, etc etc etc.
Oh my god, there are so many of them!