A wonderful joke, ruined completely by attempting to perform the thing. My sister actually has the sheet music up in her apartment, and I'm pretty sure it got passed around by someone or another in my high school band/musical theater group. I'd rather forgotten about it, but knew immediately what it was as soon as I saw the title.
It really works much more effectively as a sight gag. "Listening to" or "watching" that performance was painfully awkward and in no way captured the impression you get actually looking at the score (assuming you can read the notation, of course). I guess the internet continuously proves that someone, somewhere is always (ALWAYS) willing to try to do the absurd just to try to do the absurd. Next time friends, next time.
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