At the beginning, there was a reference to Peter and the Wolf that the audience laughed at. And then there was the thing with the mixing of Wagner's Flight of the Valkyries with O Holy Night, that they should have laughed at. Stunning actually.
The way to have gotten a good laugh out of the audience for O Holy Night would be the entire horn section donning horned helmets before they started to play.
Because the clarinetist was playing a few bars of the "Alfred Hitchcock" theme. Just to show how talented this composer is the way he fit that theme in the middle of a Christmas song!
Heard a live performance of this in Taunton Minster a couple of weeks ago - brilliant! Had to hear it again to see how many references I could spot.
We are playing this Saturday very excited!
Alright bro it’s been five years. How’d it go?
Playing this on sunday, can’t wait!
@@abyssomega5177 GO GO GO GO GO
Been 6 years but how was it?
Better than No. 1, you can’t change my mind
it may be better but they are both my favorite christmas pieces to play and listen to
Why is there no good recording of version 2?
why was the audience laughing sometimes?
At the beginning, there was a reference to Peter and the Wolf that the audience laughed at.
And then there was the thing with the mixing of Wagner's Flight of the Valkyries with O Holy Night, that they should have laughed at. Stunning actually.
@@tabhorian peter and the wolf and sorcerers apprentice, right?
"Dance of the marionettes" was the theme music to Alfred Hitchcock's TV show.
The way to have gotten a good laugh out of the audience for O Holy Night would be the entire horn section donning horned helmets before they started to play.
Because the clarinetist was playing a few bars of the "Alfred Hitchcock" theme. Just to show how talented this composer is the way he fit that theme in the middle of a Christmas song!
Away in a manger 😥
More like away in a banger