Football Fight

Superbowl + Classical Music
(or: Let's all just get along.)


Previous Super Bowl Ads That Feature Symphonic Music

Can Music Predict the Super Bowl Winner?

Jay-Z and the Rutgers Symphony 2010

And then there's my favorite: The Super Bowl Classical Collection
Who even why what?



Bonus: basketball gets in on the action.

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

Obviously I used up my vuvuzela post too soon.

No matter: I refer you to Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise for a little Brahms vuvuzela-style.

(As Maureen points out: Alex Ross AND classical music (okay, no surprise there) AND Germany AND men in tuxes AND soccer - what's not to like?)
(Vielen Dank, Maureen!)

Dream The Impossible Dream

Matt Manos (who, as it turns out, was also the design intern for the Bravo Gustavo online/iphone game) learns how to to play a mandolin and ride a unicycle at the SAME TIME: The Mandolin & Unicycle Project.



Now THAT is a senior thesis, you know? The practical application may be a bit fuzzy, but you could say the same about musicology.

(For the more advanced team: Unicycle with Tuba and Trombone)

(via metafilter)

You Can Skate Around The Issue / If You Like

In the 1988 Olympics, pair skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov made some - interesting - musical choices for their free-skate. The program started off nice and cozy with Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 - but then it transitioned into Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 - and on into an instrumental version of the "Revolutionary" etude - and on into Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" overture (with a disco beat, no less) - and on!

WHAT.
C'mon figure skaters: get it together. Everyone knows Mendelssohn does not Chopin does not Mozart equal - especially in 4 1/2 minutes. What a horrible mess for the musicologists in the audience!

Read Anne Midgette's wonderful, almost-scathing article about the choosing, splicing, speeding, and editing of music in the figure skating world.

(image via ekaterinagordeeva)