19. Rob Paravonian hates Pachelbel's "Canon in D" with a vengeance. He claims, as a cellist, that this is due to the monotony of the cello part which is a sequence of just eight quarter notes, repeated how many times?
From Quiz Pachelbel's Stalking Me
Answer:
54
If you're interested, those eight notes are D, A, B, F Sharp, G, D, G, A.
Johann Pachelbel was a German composer who lived from 1653 to 1706. His canon only really became popular in the twentieth century and is now used in many different ways, particularly as a wedding piece. It was also used in the 1980 film, "Ordinary People"
Rob also bemoans the uncoolness of learning the cello as a child. There is, he says, "no way to be cool when your instrument is larger than you" and he goes on to describe the bullies eying up the cello carrying school child, as though it were "a wounded gazelle in the Serengeti".
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