Sunday, September 15, 2024 by Mary O'Connor | listening

Today, we'll be listening to the end of the William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini.  This piece, originally the overture to an opera, has been arranged for piano and is in several method books, including Piano Pronto Movements 1 and 2.  It's also in Bastien Book 4 and Piano Maestro.

The original story

https://youtu.be/nMygbxIPdfI

Maybe your grandparents watched the original Lone Ranger

https://youtu.be/0XSwVNBeNFw

Or you saw the newer Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp

https://youtu.be/_EMMH0NBcLU

Here's the entire William Tell Overture played by an orchestra

https://youtu.be/H_6_71G7xyM

Piano Solo

https://youtu.be/iyfSDlCvtMg

Franz Liszt made a really hard version for piano solo. See if you can follow along!

https://youtu.be/eisDlPuvCQo

Piano Duet (1 piano, 4 hands)

https://youtu.be/X3oOf99qyd8

Piano Duet arranged by Louis Moreau Gottschalk

https://youtu.be/BiW2EX_Ejjc

Piano Duo (2 pianos, 8 hands)

https://youtu.be/zwpeHYi1z1g

Piano Quartet (4 pianos, 16 hands)

https://youtu.be/QjvPBBePW2A

For pipe organ

https://youtu.be/N2KIqzfam_Q

For synthesizer

https://youtu.be/dcGmj9TYLqk

And then things get nuts with cartoons. Lots of cartoons used this music. Here are Mickey Mouse and friends

https://youtu.be/LGlyKv_XNXM

And Spike Jones

https://youtu.be/MRgokSbo7c8

Handbells...

https://youtu.be/82tgQ-2ufVQ

Poor Rossini - I think he'd have a fit if he knew how is music was being used.

Have a nice day!

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