Category Archives: Musical Muckaround
Which in my view remains the best way to interest kids in music…
Sophie’s Piano Practice
Original YT playout date: 29 October 2009
Duration: 1:13
She’s on two hands, already. Progress can be painful, but as they say, “no paino, no piano”.
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How Deep is Your Love?
Original YT playout date: 10 October 2009
Duration: 4:38
Lucjan O. Poworocki makes an extraordinary rendition of this Gibbs Brothers classic. Afterwards the Boss gives a dressing down to Miss Jones for being inappropriately dressed at the office.
The Boss was a one-off character made by me but his only real distinguishing feature was having one eye. Other than that he was similar to other characters I had already done. The irony of someone with only one eye criticising colleagues for their apprearance at work was supposed to be something along the lines of beams and motes, but when I checked about real human cyclopses the images of cyclopia were too tragic really to be adjoined to any flippant humour, so effectively I didn’t take the idea any further.
Huliganov covers Russian Sailor’s cover of “Let it Be”
Original YT playout date: 11 September 2009
Duration: 8:05
It was written up in the Telegraph newspaper as the next big buzz, so Huli jumps on the bandwagon as ever…
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The Pancakes of the Opera
Original YT playout date: 27 August 2009
Duration: 4:31
I eat pancakes while Sophie sings the Phantom of the Opera song.
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Not gonna get us
Original YT playout date: 23 August 2009
Duration: 1:35
Huli is joined by a little Tatu impromptu tribute group, Sophie and her friend Bom, singing the Russian classic.
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Lucjan O. Powrocki’s Extraordinary Rendition of Schubert’s “An die Musik”
Original YT playout date: 23 August 2009
Duration: 3:19
“””Du holde Kunst! In wieviel grauen Stunden…”” wrote Schubert, the composer who gave his name to a popular sweet in powdered form, to his Muse known as Musik (sic). “”Thou gentle art, in how many grey hours in which the earths wild circle encompassed me, hast thou ignited warm love in my heart, and draw me into a better world…””
After this Poworocki draws himself into the world of fast food, making short work of one of Knorr’s products, reconstituted dried potato.”
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Lucjan O’Powrocki’s Extraordinary Rendition of “Lippen Schweigen”
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Original YT playout date: 14 August 2009
Duration: 1:37
From Frites Le Hair’s opera “The Merry Window”.
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La Voix
Original YT playout date: 17 May 2009
Duration: 3:13
“Move over, Malena Ernman! Little eight-year old Sophie is gonna re-set the whole standard for the singing of La Voix, the Swedish entry to this year’s Eurovision song contest. I thought this was the best entry, although I have to give kudos to Alexandr Rybak who wrote and performed his own winning entry for Norway, despite actually being Belarussian.
No more “”Norvege, nul points”” this year. Rybak’s entry had an record breaking score (helped no doubt by the fact that there are now 42 voting countries, not just 18 or so like when ah were a lad). Still, I was sorry to see Sweden’s siren only about half way down the scoreboard when all 42 countries had given their verdicts.
Eight Year-Old Composer
Original YT playout date: 21 April 2009
Duration: 5:17
Sophie likes to ad lib a bit on the keyboards – maybe she will compose something big one day.
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Non Te Scordar Di Me
Original YT playout date: 12 February 2009
Duration: 3:22
“This is the a premiere for two new characters which emerged as I was mucking around with a program called Cyberlink YouCam – Lucjan O Poworocki and then a Yorkshire comedian whom I shall probably dub Bernie Mansfield, or something like that.
I have no idea whether people will like this or not. I’ve done two of these for now: this and another similar one. Have to see how it goes from there. Anyone else would have done two separate films instead of a double bill in order to double the hits, but I’m a fool to myself, sometimes, I really am…”
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Sophie plays her variations on a theme by ABBA
Original YT playout date: 25 January 2009
Duration: 10:59
I don’t really teach my kid music, it’s enough to allow her to teach herself! Anyway, that’s how I learnt.
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