The Humor of Hadyn | St. Lawrence String Quartet | TEDxStanford
"A sound that has just about everything one wants from a quartet, most notably precision, warmth and an electricity that conveys the excitement of playing whatever is on their stands at the moment." - New York Times
The St. Lawrence String Quartet has developed an undisputed reputation as a world-class chamber ensemble since its establishment in 1989. The quartet performs over 120 concerts annually worldwide and has been the ensemble in residence at Stanford University since 1998, This residency includes working with music students, faculty and departments to use music to explore a myriad of topics. Recent collaborations have involved the School of Medicine, School of Education and the Law School. The members of SLSQ are also visiting artists at the University of Toronto. The SLSQ continues to build its reputation for imaginative and spontaneous music-making, through an energetic commitment to the great established quartet literature as well as the championing of new works by such composers as John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, Ezequiel Vinao and Jonathan Berger.
Geoff Nuttall, violin
Mark Fewer, violin
Lesley Robertson, viola
Christopher Costanza, cello
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Rest in Peace, Geoff Nuttall. What a great artist, character, and instructor. Canada has lost a great member of our musical family. My sympathies and condolences to all those who worked with him, knew him, and were his close friends and family.
@MKPiatkowski
Жыл бұрын
Came here after hearing the news. What a great loss.
Truly humorous. who new music could actually make you laugh like for real. not just laugh out of enjoyment, but laugh because it's funny. and without words even.
Ah Yes. Good ol' Hadyn. I've always like that fellow. When it comes to the Classical Era, A lot of people argue that Moazrt and Beethevon are the best, but I disagree. Hadyn is where it's at. After all, he's the father of the symphony! Love you forever Frazn Joesph Hadyn!
@tommybalboa3499
5 жыл бұрын
haydn haydn haydn
@bret6484
3 жыл бұрын
Very subtel joke, mad rescept
Haydn *
Bravo!
Great fantastic I loved. congrats..
HAYDN ❤️
ya boi really be out here headbanging while playing violin - that's quite a feat.
What an amazing quartet and the players 👌
Grand stuff !
actually that second violinist is Matthias McIntire, not Mark Fewer
Here comes a question: at the three-bar rest near the end, should a good musician a) act like the music has ended and have the audience fall for the joke, or b) be able to convince the audience that the music is going on even with such a long stop?
@jackthegiankiller
4 жыл бұрын
When I've seen SLSQ perform this, they always let the audience fall for it, then keep playing! Completes the effect. This is such a great video to watch to help even more people get on board to the power and sophistication of musical language.
Some audience members laughed when Geoff said that “Haydn is God”. Poor souls just don’t understand; in time perhaps they will.
Which string quartet is this by Haydn?
@johnkiunke5617
7 жыл бұрын
op. 33 no. 2
@dunnedigby4957
6 жыл бұрын
It was mentioned many times - where were you?
Schubert did great musical jokes based on expectation - i.e end of Wanderer Fantasia or Phantasie in f min for 4 hands. Not so much jokes as...studies in the meaning of life wrapped up into a kernal of musical genius - also based on expectation.
It is very good but it is very loud but it’s not easy to do the viola But it is very good and it’s not easy to play and I am going to stop playing the viola and I think it’s really hard
Make sure you guffaw out loud so others know you're smart enough to notice the main punchlines. They aren't hilarious, but you don't want to be the odd one out.
Jokes aren’t as funny when you explain them
@jackthegiankiller
4 жыл бұрын
That is true of one liners, I agree. But in this case, think of it as explaining a joke in Spanish, for example, to a non-native speaker, not only are the words unfamiliar, but so are the cultural contexts etc. For those unfamiliar with the complexity of language and what is and can be communicated with music, and in this case, classical music, a little explanation goes a long way toward helping newbies get on board an enjoy the richness of music so much more.
Terrible acoustic to play/listen in
They were playing really bad though
@dunnedigby4957
6 жыл бұрын
You just didn't get it, did you. (Not only that, your grammar's not that hot. It's badly, not bad.) They are a top professional string quartet, and that was a stunning demonstration of a classical composer having a lot of fun. You obviously are out of your league here. However, I do congratulate you on choosing a lump of broccoli to represent you. An excellent choice.
@liomatsu1931
4 жыл бұрын
They were playing in a room with terrible acoustics so that significantly affected their overall sound
@jackblank8197
4 жыл бұрын
@@dunnedigby4957 Dunne Digby bro try chill and enjoy the music instead of insulting people in the comments because of how much more musically inclined you may be than them. Everyone's entitled to their own opinions about music.
don't care for the 1st violin's sound.
@MaggieBoy12345
3 жыл бұрын
It’s not them, it’s the acoustic. There’s absolutely no resonance at all; it’s a dead room.