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Geoffroy MB sheesh it was made in 10 minutes

And he jokes its in one chord and he has to be creative.

record yourself and do better

🤡 hatin on someone who’s done much more musically in his life then you will ever accomplish in any field u work in.

@@folkwhore8322 lmao bro the only thing this guys can do type in a comment section

griffin Kay - this was the pentatonix concert in 2018, and Calum Scott opened for them :)

Na

@@morbidone88 lol what?

Nope. A talented director can work with any high school band anywhere. If this doesn't ring true for your high school, get a new director.

@@andrewbrown6272 lol that might be true usually, but the way Ben is conducting here, do you really think it would have worked with a high school band? The orchestra not only is able to take his directions, but also work together. Especially when he just says, you know what to do or gives them the choice to add whatever that want. I am a 100% sure this would not have worked with a high school orchestra. The orchestra he's working with are professionals and it's full of very talented musicians who can adapt, learn quickly and work together. If it wasn't for this, what Ben did would not have worked.

@@andrewbrown6272 and also there's a lot more than directing. In my opinion the most important job in a high school job is arranging and orchestrating. They have the most crucial job because their outputs are what usually goes into the sheet music that the kids will play. Orchestrators must know the limits of their orchestra, especially in terms of Brass, who always sound not in tune. You need to rearrange sections and parts to make it easier for the kids to stay in tune and in time, ensure to stay in an easy range that they can play, ensure there are no complicated articulations for the children. If the Orchestrator or arranger doesn't adapt a piece to their orchestra, no matter how good the director is, it just won't work. The kids have a talent ceiling, and it's up to the orchestrator or arranger to ensure the music is arranged in a way that it fits their talent. So I think a director or conductor is not as important as the orchestrator or arranger.

Ben Folds is the pianist. If you haven't checked out Ben Folds or Ben Folds Five (two of his bands), you should! He's super talented!

I never said it was a BAD piece... I said... interesting with promise... But... most pianists wanna play Beethoven and Brahms...

OK armchair critic, let's hear your concerto. Then get back to us. I think this

A little piece I wrote for the LAST Papal visit of John Paul II to the States that was INTERNATIONALLY televised... (that means ALL OVER THE WORLD)

Congratulations. Sincerely.

I don't care until you've been as successful as Ben Folds has.

Depending on what your view of success is...? Writing for a papal visit... teaching ten year old's how to play Chopin and Liszt piano Concertos... Playing as a local concert pianist with orchestras and and at other important venues... playing on the radio... Writing Music for a Cathedral Basilica... which also happens to be the WORLDS largest collection of Mosaics... and Writing Operatic Musical... and acting as an ambassador for other musicians and musical groups... IF that's not a success story... please tell me what is...?

Me too!!! That was the most amazing part .... I relived my entire Ben Folds experience in one amazing Symphonic work of art!

+louisvonbeethoven At least its compelling... and draws your attention... nice tunes... cool verity... what else can you ask for now a days...(Better then a LOT of new crap they throw at us...)

+465marko Your ass is showing.

+louisvonbeethoven I certainly hope you're right about "the atonal freak show winter of the last century."

Atonality hasn't gone anywhere, thankfully. It's been integrated into pop, hip-hop, videogame soundtracks… The fact that you don't enjoy it means very little in the grand scheme of things-or was explored for a reason, great works came out of that, and it gave all current musicians interesting tools.

Are you simply judging this piece on compositional skill? sure it's only a high school skill piece, but I still think this piece is awesome. Un-technical songs can be good too, do you think he was trying to be on par with Rachmaninov?

CriterionCafe he had to have at least least saturated himself with a ton of John Williams....or Hans Zimmer. I applaud him on his attempt, but the outcome is a piano concerto, without the piano in it.

I think this is mostly meant to promote "serious music" to people who know nothing about concertoes and orchestras (like myself), but have a taste educated enough to know Ben Folds in the first place. And it fulfills that objective nicely.

V1kte on that point, I don't argue. It does promote serious music to the uninitiated. Ood point.

Do you actually play ? can you write original music people want to listen to ? He was humble enough to admit he was not Rachmaniov, seriously people lets not pour criticism on all music that does not sound like Rach 2 !!

Oli Allan : It’s a bit late but have you ever listened to Weird Al’s cover of Fancy “Tacky”? It’s just as good or even better I’d say

+V1kte Mine too! What's it called that he's doing when putting one hand on the piano strings like that?

hey peenslayer, u should get back to moderatoring /r/atheism pls :) i saw some le fundies try raid it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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