Comments on: The celebrated chop waltz

The celebrated chop waltz

twoleftfeet — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:27:07 -0800

The Celebrated Chop Waltz is probably one of the best known musical pieces of all time. Usually performed on piano (for example, this version, inspired by Franz Liszt) it has also been performed by full orchestra, notably in versions by Rimsky-Korsakov and others. Other versions: guitar, mini-harmonica, ukelele, accordion, Liberace, and Tom Hanks.

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:12:09 -0800

I searched high and low for that scene from "The Best Years of Our Lives", where Hoagy Carmichael plays this with Harold Russell, who had no hands. If you can find this, please post it here.

By: Mooseli

Mooseli — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:37:39 -0800

"Christmas Chopsticks" - describes my family's Jewish Christmas to a T. Or to a =, since it looks more like chopsticks eating Chinese food on Christmas.

By: Segundus

Segundus — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:59:53 -0800

This is the piano piece that people who don't play the piano invariably play, but I've never known quite why.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:03:38 -0800

guitar, mini-harmonica, ukelele, accordion, Liberace, and Tom Hanks. This list has a parallelism issue.

By: IAmBroom

IAmBroom — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:28:12 -0800

wolfdog, are you somehow suggesting that guitar -> accordion is not || to Liberace -> Tom Hanks? Or that mini-harmonica is non-collinear with guitar -> accordion ? Show your work!

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:29:15 -0800

I am just saying that it appears at first to be a coherent list of musical instruments, and then one's mindframe is uncomfortably jerked in a different direction entirely by the inclusion of the ukelele.

By: IAmBroom

IAmBroom — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:39:00 -0800

Yeah, I got it. It was a joke.