A little joke I heard

[Mr String]

An orchestra is playing a symphony and the first violinist is playing completely out of tempo and out of tune and thus ruining the whole performance. The symphony ends and people start clapping but, suddenly, somebody among the audience shouts: "That violinist is a real son of a *#$#%!" The conductor turns around and replies angrily: "Who has called this son of a *#$#% a violinist?"

[jasensmith]

That's cute Mr. String,

Por cierto, me encanto Beunos Aires. chao 

[Mr String]

@jasensmith said:

me encanto Buenos Aires

I'm so glad to know you've been in Argentina! I've been listening to your song "Analía de Buenos Aires". It's richly orchestrated, (I guess it took you some time to compose it). Curiously, I noticed something that I can't help mentioning...castanets are never used in Argentina, they appear nowhere (not even in other countries of South America). Castanets are mainly used in Spain. I mean, nowadays, there are castanets anywhwere in the world but the frequency of use in certain places is non-existent. Oh, I'm sorry, maybe you wanted to include castanets for personal reasons. In this case, congratulations...maybe you wanted castanets and you just created something beautiful with them no matter if Argentina uses them or not. I leave you a few YouTube links for you (and everyone else) to enjoy:

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1) Mi Buenos Aires querido. (I may translate this as "My loved Buenos Aires"). Notice that they are on a ship and that the song goes "My loved Buenos Aires, when I see you again there will be no more sorrow and no oblivion".

=== 2) MI BUENOS AIRES QUERIDO DE NOCHE. The title of this video may be translated as "My loved Buenos Aires at the evening".

=== 3) "Libertango" dancer: Pablo Alonso. Just a man and a beautiful(?) woman dancing Piazzola's "Libertango". Notice the amount of hits the video has received, almost 2 million hits

=== 4) El Choclo. Very funny, an Argentinian and an Italian woman dance the tango called "El Choclo" (= corn marrow, in obvious reference to the male reproductive organ!)...they talk but she doesn't understand Argentinian Spanish language.

=== 5) The modern tango of Gotan Project. Here you'll see an interview and a bit of the music of the group called "Gotan Project", a group that is enriching tango with the benefits of technology...If you don't want to see the 10 minute interview, just go to YouTube and search for Gotan Project (you'll get lots of nice quality videos).

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I hope all this music inspires you to compose passionate orchestral music. Chau!

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(NOTE: none of the videos are mine, I'm only providing the links).

[jasensmith]

Hola Mr. Strings,

First of all, thank you for taking the time to listen to my piece and thank you for the kind words.  Analia de Buenos Aires was composed with VSL.

I composed the piece as a tribute to my Spanish teacher (maestra de Castellano), Analia when I took a Spanish immersion course in Buenos Aires some years ago.  She was rather fond of castanets and it was meant as a personal joke between her and I. 

I live along the border with Mexico y hablo espanol con fluidez but I've, unfortunately forgot my Castellano.  However, from time to time, when I'm speaking to my wife or the many Mexicans who live around here I'll slip some voseo in here and there.  It's funny to see the looks on their faces.

I'll take a look at these videos when I get some more time, MI BUENOS AIRES QUERIDO DE NOCHE sounds familiar and I think I've seen it before but thank you for the links.

Me encanto Bariloche tambien

    

   

[Mr String]

OK.