Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 06, 2023

Do not try the Jerk & Jeté at home!! ;-(

During the Farewell Symphony, the composer was haydn to make sure none of the musicians actually said Farewell.

One time there were three fiddles.

That symphony must have been a great show. I just tried playing it in youtube but my internet is so awful I gave up!

A lot of basketball players have taken ballet.

That song is practically the opposite of “Bolero”, which adds instruments as it goes along. There is an excellent You Tube video showing an orchestra playing it. I can’t remember the orchestra or the conductor. But I do remember that the conductor is Russian, and uses a toothpick for a baton, believe it or not.

I was told in elementary school that Haydn wrote his Farewell Symphony to send a message to Prince Miklos Esterhazy, his employer, about he an his orchestra need a vacation. Prince Esterházy understood the message, and let them go for a while.

Come back. COME BACK. COME BAAAAAAACCKKK!. ~ Anxious Amy, they’re leaving because of me I just KNOW it.. everything is about MEEEEE

May the implored be with you as they are with Amy. And gesundheit.

Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 45 in F♯ minor, known as the “Farewell” Symphony (German: Abschieds-Symphonie; modern orthography: Abschiedssinfonie), is a symphony dated 1772 on the autograph score. A typical performance of the symphony lasts around twenty-five minutes.

The tale of how the symphony was composed was told by Haydn in old age to his biographers Albert Christoph Dies and Georg August Griesinger.

At that time, Haydn’s patron Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy was resident, together with all his musicians and retinue, at his favorite summer palace at Eszterháza in rural Hungary. The stay there had been longer than expected, and most of the musicians had been forced to leave their wives back at home in Eisenstadt, about a day’s journey away. Longing to return, the musicians appealed to their Kapellmeister for help. The diplomatic Haydn, instead of making a direct appeal, put his request into the music of the symphony: during the final adagio each musician stops playing, snuffs out the candle on his music stand, and leaves in turn, so that at the end, there are just two muted violins left (played by Haydn himself and his concertmaster, Luigi Tomasini). Esterházy seems to have understood the message: the court returned to Eisenstadt the day following the performance.

Believe it or not, they cut a very long board… Amazing! :D

I played the Farewell Symphony solo on the piano, they are still wondering where I am.

I wonder who ate the charcuterie board?

Arnold had a lot of posters of bodybuilders in his childhood home and his mother was afraid that he was gay!! Something his housekeeper could vouch as being a wrong conclusion.

She had that Camarillo Brillo…

what if you play the “Farewell Symphony” in reverse?

My favorite daily (& nightly) motto%proverb is “you learn something every day (and night)!”

Californians weren’t impressed with Arnold’s ballet skills when he was governor

It isn’t unusual for athletic coaches to want their players to take ballet. Football players are asked to take ballet.

How many people (students) did the charcuterie board feed?

Farewell symphony link (start at 3:21 if you don’t have 9 minutes) https://youtu.be/kjFeDk6Kr3U

Who says ballet can’t be manly?

Talk about stinky cheese!