Saturday, November 7, 2009

Dudley Moore: Beethoven Sonata Parody




Still from the 1960's show, "Beyond The Fringe." I found youtube videos of this exceedingly talented man doing parodies of Britten, Faure, and Schubert as well. :) I don't know which astounds me more... Moore's skill or the audience's being exceedingly well-versed in music, enough to "get" the humor. :)

In this video, Dudley Moore takes the theme of the whistle tune from THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI and transforms it into a piano parody in the compositional style of Beethoven.

1 comment:

  1. aside from the humor (yes, I find this even funnier than victor borge), this clip tells us so much about the nature of that notion "style;" add to that, /parody/ is perhaps the highest level of the construction of 'art,' because it (re)creates what "is" by paradoxically building from the point of what it is "not" supposed to be; it de-categorizes what "is"

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