neither had I, but Leonard
Solomon is a musician who builds and performs on unusual homemade
instruments and His latest instrument is a bottle organ, which he controls with
air bladders next to the bottles, in this video, Solomon performs "Papageno's
Song" from Mozart's opera The
Magic Flute, as you can see in this video, Solomon is not only a performer
of music, but an entertainer who engages with his audience, in an interview about this work, Solomon describes the
bliss of gelling with his audience, 'One of my favorite moments performing, was in a big stage
show in Jordan Hall, Boston, a grand old concert hall. I was part of a show
called "A Taste of Passover." in which I was doing short 5-minute
bits in between the other acts. In one of my entrances, I was planning to play
just the first few measures of a song on a harmonica, before going into the
comedy routine. But when I started the song, the people started humming along.
It was an old familiar Jewish melody, and they all knew the tune. So instead of
doing the routine as I had planned, I just kept playing the song on the
harmonica. The whole audience was swaying back and forth and humming along with
my simple music, and for a timeless minute, I felt like I was in a dream; as if
I had seen this experience in a vision, long ago. It was one of the sweetest
moments I've ever had on stage', what a performance that must have been!
That was amazing, sounded just like a medieval flute playing as you often see in the old medieval films, I'm not going to change it because I laughed when I saw what I had typed. It was almost as though I was implying that they used to film in the Middle Ages. You obviously know that I meant medieval style films but it was funny all the same.
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