Hyung-ki Joo News
British musician
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- United Kingdom
- pianist, composer
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2024-02-03 22:45:00
[…] sound effects. Although I should probably re-edit to turn down the drums a little, I think this is pretty fun! As an epilogue, I'll note that the great musical humorist Peter Schickele (inventor of PDQ Bach, etc.) passed away recently. As I've thought about his legacy, I thought about how much he and Victor Borge and Igudesman and Joo and Two Set Violin all benefit from the generally ultra-serious attitude with which those in the classical music world think of "playing" music (even music intended to be lighthearted). All of these comedians have become popular and established enough that their audiences take great delight in the irreverent treatment they display towards the canon, but I continue to wish we cultivated a more genuinely playful attitude in general.There's a lot of mistrust about what […]
2022-06-29 23:51:56
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-05-05 07:00:40
The pianist Hyung-ki Joo has got together with... The post Menuhins gather in Song for Corinne appeared first on Slipped Disc.
2021-01-29 02:02:00
Hidden Rites
[…] able to find an audio sample, but it's not hard to imagine. First of all, an important 2021 update: I found that Rite of the Rose recording! You can hear it here. It's fun, staying mostly in a Rite of Spring vein, with the bassoon melody eventually veering into La vie en rose territory. The French tune actually takes over briefly around 2:25, but not for that long. You can also hear the musical humorist Hyung-ki Joo doing a lighthearted little mashup in the Paris airport here - for some reason, he ends with music from Stravinsky's Petrouchka. Anyway, I'm not the only one to make this connection. But ultimately, I think it's the suave, sensuous, flowing quality that unites The Rite of Spring with La vie en rose and separates both from the more muscular, insistent We are the champions. And it's a reminder that, though pitch is obviously important in defining a […]
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