All of the content comes from the kids. The impetus of the show came in part from all the attention lavished on high school gymnasts and other athletes. High school musicians tend to labor away in obscurity. We thought they should have an outlet. |
Beethoven was probably better known as an improviser until people started paying attention to his symphonies. Liszt, taking Hungarian folk songs and making them into these orchestral piano fantasies. Bartok used the raw building blocks of popular music as the way he set up major pieces of art. And then Stravinsky would lift them whole cloth. |
I really loved the kids we had tonight. We went high and we went low (with the jokes and material) and a couple of places in between. |