Pardon My Blooper!

[Michael]

Just spotted this on Google news. I have not tampered with it in any way.


The Langroise Trio takes on Beethoven
- Idaho Statesman
Edition Date: 11/09/07

What can a composer do with four notes? If it's Ludwig von Beethoven, the possibilities are limitless. Beethoven became famous for so many reasons, none the least for what are probably the most known four notes in classical music: da, da, da, dummmm, from Sonata No. opus 27 known as "Moonlight" (1801).

[Michael]

... and the von.....ooooogh, the von ....aaaargh ...etc.


(Incidentally, Peter, what's Dan Dare got to do with Ludwig VON Beethoven? I realise now he's too thin to be Digby ....)

[PDG]

Eleanor Digby

Well done, Michael! 'Tis indeed Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future. He looks a bit like me in serious mode...

[Peter]

... and the von.....ooooogh, the von ....aaaargh ...etc.

Beethoven would have loved that!

[Fidelio]

Yes....he did.

[Michael]

Beethoven would have loved that!

He really would have loved that. For all his disdain of titles, he was not averse to being mistaken for one of the nobility!

[Peter]

He really would have loved that. For all his disdain of titles, he was not averse to being mistaken for one of the nobility!

Well of course he tried to give that impression during the legal battles over custody of karl.

[Michael]

Can anyone spot yet another blooper here?


Timesofmalta.com
Wednesday, 14th November 2007

Beethoven Scottish songs by Austrian mezzo soprano

Austrian-born mezzo soprano Lydia Vierlinger will feature in a concert by the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt which the Manoel Theatre, in collaboration with Malta International Airport, will be presenting on Tuesday at 7.30 p.m.

She will sing a set of six Scottish songs by Beethoven, some to lyrics by Smyth and Burns and one to lyrics by an anonymous poet. Originally for voice and piano, these songs will be performed in an arrangement for voice and piano trio.

(Possibly two bloopers)

[PDG]

Can anyone spot yet another blooper here?


Timesofmalta.com
Wednesday, 14th November 2007

Beethoven Scottish songs by Austrian mezzo soprano

Austrian-born mezzo soprano Lydia Vierlinger will feature in a concert by the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt which the Manoel Theatre, in collaboration with Malta International Airport, will be presenting on Tuesday at 7.30 p.m.

She will sing a set of six Scottish songs by Beethoven, some to lyrics by Smyth and Burns and one to lyrics by an anonymous poet. Originally for voice and piano, these songs will be performed in an arrangement for voice and piano trio.

(Possibly two bloopers)

Er.....Lydia can't really play the piano with only four fingers? Er.....airports make terrible presenters? Er.....no, Michael, I do know this. Really...

[Michael]

Er.....Lydia can't really play the piano with only four fingers? Er.....airports make terrible presenters? Er.....no, Michael, I do know this. Really...

They are not glaring errors and I'm wide open to correction on the second one. Let's say the news item gives the wrong impression about the works. Actually, I must read it again to see if I'm imagining things ..............

[PDG]

Go on then, Michael, what's the answer?

[Michael]

It's no big deal ...... it's actually embarrassing ... but the article seems to indicate that the tunes were written by Beethoven, when, as you know well (too well!) they were merely (merely!) arrangements of folk-tunes.
I am wide open to correction on the second point, i.e. that the tunes were originally set to a solo piano accompaniment. I believe (without checking) that they were originally set to piano trio.

That's all ......

[DavidO]

Just spotted this on Google news. I have not tampered with it in any way.


The Langroise Trio takes on Beethoven
- Idaho Statesman
Edition Date: 11/09/07

What can a composer do with four notes? If it's Ludwig von Beethoven, the possibilities are limitless. Beethoven became famous for so many reasons, none the least for what are probably the most known four notes in classical music: da, da, da, dummmm, from Sonata No. opus 27 known as "Moonlight" (1801).

Somebody at the Idaho Statesman (possibly two somebodies: a writer & a rim/slot editor) has been getting a little too much moonlight ... er, sunlight.

[Michael]

Somebody at the Idaho Statesman (possibly two somebodies: a writer & a rim/slot editor) has been getting a little too much moonlight ... er, sunlight.

Moonshine, I would say .....

[Sorrano]

Moonshine, I would say .....

I did have a friend refer to the Moonlight Sonata as the Moonshine. However that was because English was not his native language.