Bill Bailey & The Orchestra
Saturday, May 9th, 2009 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tourmalineZOMG you have to watch this programme! It's half-way through now, but you must catch it on iPlayer or a repeat showing or whatever you normally do. Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide To The Orchestra. It's Bill Bailey and the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Anne Dudley (who composed the Jeeves & Wooster theme music, among other things). It's got lots of Bill Bailey's standard stuff in (Cockney influences in classical music, Theremin etc) but it's a fun way to see an orchestra.
It's so awesome cos when I was a kid, music lessons were full of how classical music is Stuff You Should Know And Appreciate and it was completely humourless. And popular music was the Devil's work. The Head of Music at my school wanted me to learn the Bassoon, apparently because there was one left in the central place where the city's school instruments were kept. The school couldn't have it delivered unless I said yes I would learn it. I didn't know what a bassoon was, but because I couldn't see one unless I said I wanted to learn it, I didn't get to see one in real life. And I didn't want to agree to learn the bassoon without seeing one, and apparently there were no pictures of bassoons anywhere at school. But now, thanks to this programme, I've seen one :)
It's so awesome cos when I was a kid, music lessons were full of how classical music is Stuff You Should Know And Appreciate and it was completely humourless. And popular music was the Devil's work. The Head of Music at my school wanted me to learn the Bassoon, apparently because there was one left in the central place where the city's school instruments were kept. The school couldn't have it delivered unless I said yes I would learn it. I didn't know what a bassoon was, but because I couldn't see one unless I said I wanted to learn it, I didn't get to see one in real life. And I didn't want to agree to learn the bassoon without seeing one, and apparently there were no pictures of bassoons anywhere at school. But now, thanks to this programme, I've seen one :)
