Pretentious bollocksPossibly the worst event I ever went to was an evening of turntablists in London. The lights went down, the first guy put a cymbal onto a turntable, dropped the needle on it and left it making screeching noises for ten minutes.
When the lights came up, half the audience had snuck out.
What's the most pretentious rubbish you've ever been to see in the name of art?
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chthonic, Wed 28 Sep 2005, 14:19)
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Modern classical musicMy boyfriend sings with a fairly large prestigious choir. I usually go along to see him sing. Unfortunately his choir and the associated orchestra are seen as a public service which means that they sometime have to do less well-known and not very popular pieces.
This 'music' is the most pretentious discordant crap that I have ever had the misfortune to hear. Imagine a room full of six-year-olds given instruments and told to play what they like and sing any old random words and you'll get the general idea.
The worst was by a guy called John Adams which was commissioned as a memorial to 911. It was played during the Proms at the Albert Hall two years ago. The choir had to sing words taken from the last words of people who managed to phone before the planes crashed ("I see buildings, I see water"). Accompanying this and the terrible discordant music was a recorded list of the names of people who had died. Pretentious bollocks of the highest order and in incredibly poor taste.
I have learned to avoid pieces by composers that are still alive.
(, Thu 29 Sep 2005, 11:14, Reply)
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