Thanks for joining us for our first week of Intermezzo! So far we've talked about we talked about comedic timing, teasing, physical comedy and defying expectation in classical music. Today we're exploring exaggeration.
When you tell a story and totally exaggerate just one part of it, it becomes something totally different. For example, if you get a caricature drawn, the artist will exaggerate one part of you — glasses, hair or your nose. Or you can exaggerate elements of a story.
Erik Satie has a piano piece, written over 100 years ago, with a French title that basically translates to "dried-out lobster embryo." At the end, he exaggerates the kind of ending that you'd expect from Beethoven.
Music in this episode:
Satie: "Embryons Desséchés"
Leopold Mozart: "Die Bauernhochzeit" for hurdy-gurdy, bagpipe and orchestra
