Peter did not answer. Because, after all, it was a rhetorical question.
June 19, 2020 9:48 PM Subscribe
October 4, 1988 [the same year as Even Worse was released] saw the release of a basically lost project by "Weird Al" Yankovic and Wendy Carlos -- a recording/reimagining of Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter And The Wolf", and Camille Saint-Saëns' "Carnival Of The Animals - Part Two". YouTube Playlist [~55m]
Carnival Of The Animals - Part Two is a parody piece and was not actually composed by Saint-Saëns. It's Carlos being inventive using orchestral textures, and of course... Yankovic.
Carnival Of The Animals - Part Two is a parody piece and was not actually composed by Saint-Saëns. It's Carlos being inventive using orchestral textures, and of course... Yankovic.
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posted by DoctorFedora at 10:14 PM on June 19, 2020 [2 favorites]
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posted by hippybear at 10:23 PM on June 19, 2020 [6 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 10:23 PM on June 19, 2020 [6 favorites]
Love this record.
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 10:39 PM on June 19, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 10:39 PM on June 19, 2020 [1 favorite]
omg this is like catnip that shoots catnip out of its mouth for me
posted by away for regrooving at 12:03 AM on June 20, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by away for regrooving at 12:03 AM on June 20, 2020 [7 favorites]
I think I am in love with you hippybear
posted by wheelieman at 3:58 AM on June 20, 2020
posted by wheelieman at 3:58 AM on June 20, 2020
Lost? I owned a copy until my CD collection got stolen by a former roommate when they moved out while I wasn’t home.
...and I never was able to find it again,.,
Yeah, I guess it counts as “lost”. But it’s great.
posted by mephron at 5:13 AM on June 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
...and I never was able to find it again,.,
Yeah, I guess it counts as “lost”. But it’s great.
posted by mephron at 5:13 AM on June 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
Thank you. This is all I ever wanted.
Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra scratches this itch for me, too.
posted by sugar and confetti at 6:10 AM on June 20, 2020
Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra scratches this itch for me, too.
posted by sugar and confetti at 6:10 AM on June 20, 2020
Very excited to listen to this today!
posted by panhopticon at 8:41 AM on June 20, 2020
posted by panhopticon at 8:41 AM on June 20, 2020
I fucking love this and when I went to see him perform with an orchestra last year I was tres peeves that there were no nods to Peter. I even wrote him a letter about it.
He did not reply.
posted by bq at 8:41 AM on June 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
He did not reply.
posted by bq at 8:41 AM on June 20, 2020 [1 favorite]
That quote in the Wikipedia entry:
posted by JoeZydeco at 8:58 AM on June 20, 2020
[Carlos] later recounted that "the project was a chance for some musical fun and tomfoolery, working with a bright, witty collaborator, before getting back to more adventurous tuning and timbre projects."Why would she say that at the end? Was she dissing the source material, or Al?
posted by JoeZydeco at 8:58 AM on June 20, 2020
before getting back to more adventurous tuning and timbre projects.
I don't read that as dismissive, but rather Carlos remarking that her work is usually pretty esoteric and that it was nice to do something a little less serious and detailed and without the particular challenge of creative innovation (which is what most she mostly does). And, as a composer, she mostly works alone, so it sounds like she found it kind of novel to have a creative collaborator--my sense of it is more like, 'it was nice to take a break and have some fun with this project, especially with someone who was fun to work with, before I get back to my regular grind.'
posted by LooseFilter at 9:14 AM on June 20, 2020 [6 favorites]
I don't read that as dismissive, but rather Carlos remarking that her work is usually pretty esoteric and that it was nice to do something a little less serious and detailed and without the particular challenge of creative innovation (which is what most she mostly does). And, as a composer, she mostly works alone, so it sounds like she found it kind of novel to have a creative collaborator--my sense of it is more like, 'it was nice to take a break and have some fun with this project, especially with someone who was fun to work with, before I get back to my regular grind.'
posted by LooseFilter at 9:14 AM on June 20, 2020 [6 favorites]
Why would she say that at the end? Was she dissing the source material, or Al?I don’t think she was dissing either. I think she’s characterizing the experience of this work as more playful than the subsequent year and half she spent reimagining her take on Bach, and its composition and orchestration as more approachable than her experimental film scores and other recordings.
On preview: what LooseFilter said.
posted by Songdog at 9:18 AM on June 20, 2020
Previously. That may be the only CD we bought that is truly collectible now. Hard to imagine that in the era of print-on-demand anything ever truly goes out of print, but some, apparently, do. A gem.
posted by wnissen at 11:42 AM on June 20, 2020
posted by wnissen at 11:42 AM on June 20, 2020
I thought I’d seen this here before. It is the only possible way I would even know about it to begin with.
posted by hwestiii at 1:42 PM on June 20, 2020
posted by hwestiii at 1:42 PM on June 20, 2020
I suspect that many people lent this tape/cd/record to friends and never saw it again. I had it on record and never got it back...
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 3:15 PM on June 20, 2020
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 3:15 PM on June 20, 2020
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And, it appears all the instruments are Carlos' programming inventions, so go her in the early days of electronic music! (As had been for long before this!)
posted by hippybear at 10:09 PM on June 19, 2020 [4 favorites]