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Let's say you saw Tom Mulcair performing at the symphony...
March 27, 2012 - 2:02pm
1. What instrument would you see him playing?
2. What top 3 classical pieces would you like to hear him tackle?
1. Piano
2. Flight of the Bumblebee, Thus Spach Zarathustra, 1812 Overture.
*ducking and running*
These are fun.
If Thomas Mulcair were moonlighting as a clown for children's birthday parties, what balloon animals would you ask him to make?
Instrument: French horn.
I'll get back to you on the rest.
Instrument:Howitzer
1812 Overture
1. string
2. Beethoven's Fifth - (the end approacheth for the Harpers)
Oboe
The Rite of Spring
1. Tuba
2. J. Haydn's The Creation, J.S. Bach's Das Wohltemperierte Clavier and D. Leppard's "Pour some sugar on me."
1. Contrabassoon (a vastly underrated instrument)
2. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Stairway to Heaven and Smoke On The Water (classic rock, a vastly overrated genre)
so, between vastly underrated and vastly overrated we should find a comfortable center)
...moving this thread to the centre.
The Eaton Centre? The centre of the Earth?
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1. Second fiddle.
2. (a) Busfare for the Common Man
(b) Libby-amo from La Traviata
(c) Overture to King Stephen by Beethoven
Let's say Thomas Mulcair is performing in a band at Octoberfest. What instrument and piece would he be playing?
Accordion, the Chicken Dance.
The organ, and specifically the 3rd movement, which he would start about 7 bars too soon and keep going into intermission.
Edited to amend... Lemme change that a bit. Start 7 bars too soon, but increase the tempo by about 1/5th thus finishing ahead of the orchestra, when he would launch into selections from Phantom of the Opera while cackling madly.
@ Mr. Tea
Doesn't matter, he'd make spiders
No unionist, the centre is moving to this thread.
(This tread is not big enough for such a big "discount" tent.)
You spent some time thinking about that... It's too good for off the cuff. You're disqualified. Yeah, I know, we're promulgating rules as we go and applying them retroactively. Mahler and Prokofiev would have done that too, had the occasion arisen.
Mulcair would be conducting Prokofiev's "Dance of the Knights" from Romeo and Julliet. It's an ominous piece that would keep Harper awake at night in a cold sweat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_hOR50u7ek
If you're looking for something that keeps Harper awake at night, I think some lovely Norwegian death metal would do the trick.
Composition: Also Sprach Zarathustra, by Strauss
Instrument: the timpani part, transposed to Uzi.
Another suggestion for Maestro Mulcair: "Mars: Bringer of War" from Holst's The Planets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I
Or, on a film soundtrack night, he might lead the whistle chorus on the "Colonel Bogey March" in order to underscore his commitment to a tough defense policy.
Given that he is such a Beatles fan... I would suggest a tape loop of Yoko Ono's vocal tracks from Life With the Lions, volume turned to 11 of course.
I've always liked Yoko. Never liked Paul much.