Hilarious concert poster

[bhodges]

Check out this quite interesting program offered by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, here.  (Scroll down to photo of poster.)

--Bruce

[Lethevich]

I wonder how they managed that...

[bhodges]

I think MTT should be congratulated for unearthing so many interesting-sounding new works. 

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

What's he mean, "but the composers......not even close"?

Copland really did compose the Fanfare for the Common Man! 

[Greta]

Alright, 1 composer out of 5! ROFL! 

Yes, they really need to stay away from the Scotch over in Edinburgh...my my...

Strauss' Short Ride in a Fast Machine, now that's one I'd like to hear. 

And what a great blog, I loved all the SFS tour pictures!

[BachQ]

I thought Sibelius had destroyed the score to his Third Piano Concerto .........

[longears]

Strauss' Short Ride in a Fast Machine, now that's one I'd like to hear. 

Aye, lassie!  It's nae too far from Salome's dance.

[Kullervo]

I thought Sibelius had destroyed the score to his Third Piano Concerto .........

He destroyed all three before he even wrote them.

[DavidW]

Check out this quite interesting program offered by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, here.  (Scroll down to photo of poster.)

--Bruce

That was funny.

Hey Bruce, next time would you please copy the image url and then post the image in your post?  It would just be more convenient for the rest of us (I mean lazy bums like me).

[Larry Rinkel]

Nothing by Strauss is ever short.

[BachQ]

Hey Bruce, next time would you please copy the image url and then post the image in your post?  It would just be more convenient for the rest of us (I mean lazy bums like me).

I agree.  Clicking on a link and scrolling down a webpage is so cumbersome and taxing .........

[MishaK]

Strauss' Short Ride in a Fast Machine, now that's one I'd like to hear. 

That would have been "Eine kurze Fahrt in einem schnellen BMW" if it had been by Strauss.