EMS "The Viola Joke" 23/2/2025

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  • Roger Webb
    Full Member
    • Feb 2024
    • 1208

    #16
    What's the difference between a viola and a trampoline?............it is customary to take one shoes off before you jump on a trampoline,

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    • oddoneout
      Full Member
      • Nov 2015
      • 9584

      #17
      Meanwhile...
      Mercifully small amount of Mr S contribution in today's programme and large amount of music, most of which was unfamiliar to me. A rewarding listen, although the less said about the 4 or 5 so-called jokes the better.
      The opening phrase of the presto from the Telemann viola concerto is now bugging me as it sounds just like something else I know, and I can't pin down what.

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30915

        #18
        I was wondering if anyone had listened and whether there was an explanation (as trailed) for why it had become 'the butt of musical jokes'.

        Mozart played the viola...
        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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        • oddoneout
          Full Member
          • Nov 2015
          • 9584

          #19
          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          I was wondering if anyone had listened and whether there was an explanation (as trailed) for why it had become 'the butt of musical jokes'.

          Mozart played the viola...
          If there was an explanation it passed me by I'm afraid.

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          • AuntDaisy
            Host
            • Jun 2018
            • 1938

            #20
            Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
            If there was an explanation it passed me by I'm afraid.
            ... and me.

            Interesting choice of pieces.

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