For more on appreciating classical music, Michial and I recommend this podcast, Sticky Notes. Here’s an episode on Joseph Haydn and particularly the comedy of his pieces (although oddly he left out the bassoon fart)
He also has some more episodes that would be of particular interest to Fantasia lovers:
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-zaGM39Cik&w=854&h=480]
I’m declaring Haydn the patron composer of middle school orchestras everywhere.
“Antony Hodgson identifies George Szell as a conductor who was not afraid to overdo “the vulgarity of this joke”. Hodgson argues that “if, in concert, none of the audience laughs, then the episode must have been underplayed.””
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