Worst Messiah Mishap ever
I blogged this about the same time last year, but Alex Ross reminded me of this fantastically amusing musical disaster. Although I like to think of my Nutcracker disaster story as a great holiday mishap, this one really takes the cake. My recent slip & slide three mile run with my bass, though a good story, can’t hold a candle to this one. Click the player above for the most colossal mistake ever (not that the performance sounded that great beforehand), or download it and pass it around. Good stuff!
12 December 2007, 6:48 am
I really feel for them – Im always doing stuff like this in jazz
20 December 2007, 11:08 pm
At least the voices hung in there and the organ ended on the right key.
21 December 2007, 12:17 am
Quite true! Still, one can’t help but wish to be a fly on the wall for that one.
09 January 2008, 10:16 pm
[...] over either coffee or beer (depending on the hour!). Whether it’s butchering the Messiah by whacking the transposition button on the organ, dropping bows and breaking into hysterics mid-concert, or finding oneself [...]
10 November 2008, 12:40 pm
Oh dear oh dear.
I did
get some enjoyment
and was sort of
horrified.
That would have been awkward.
Perhaps.
04 June 2009, 6:00 am
[...] other over either coffee or beer (depending on the hour!). Whether it’s butchering the Messiah by whacking the transposition button on the organ, dropping bows and breaking into hysterics mid-concert, or finding oneself [...]