This morning's post might as well be titled "And now for something completely different" . . .
It seems that in several parts of the world, vegetable orchestras have become a thing. My attention was drawn to them when King Charles of formerly Great Britain played a carrot recorder in concert with the London Vegetable Orchestra last week. You can read more about them at the link.
Here's the LVO with "Resolution Song".
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra is an older group, and performs all over the world, including an occasional tour in the USA.
Here they perform at a TedX concert in Vienna.
Last but not least, there's a US version too: the Long Island Vegetable Orchestra. Here Conan O'Brien interviews its founder, Dr. Dale Stuckenbruck, complete with instrument-crafting and -playing.
Dr. Stuckenbruck emphasizes that after playing the "instruments", you have to eat them. This is refreshing, and reminds me of a butcher's advertisement in England a few decades ago, after the movie "Watership Down" came out. Above a display of rabbit carcasses was the inscription: "You've read the book, you've seen the film, now eat the cast!"
Peter
7 comments:
Yes, I never would have guessed this type of orchestra would exist. Not even a little bit.
I do know that Gallagher was so out of his mind that the group would NOT allow him to participate. They insisted this was a vegetable, not a fruit, orchestra. And they didn't need another percussionist.
I always wondered if "vegetable orchestra" referred to the instruments or the players.
The leftists should be protesting that there are food deserts in America, and these people are wasting food. Hardly seems sustainable.
Not quite the same, but there is the swing tune The Sweet Potato Piper.
Though, it does include the line, "You ought to know you can't jam on a yam" (Glenn Miller version)
uh, Hard NO.
Milton
This may be the only case where the audience may get pelted by rotting vegetables!
BTW, a few weeks ago I played that 'Dwarf Metal' to my resident hamster. She has since excavated what I can only describe as a subterranean Throne Room and declared herself Queen.
This is both ridiculous and awesome. Music should be fun!
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