In China, Kenny G’s instrumental “Going Home” has been used for years as a way to tell people to leave.
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Sunday, May 11, 2014
NYT: “Isn’t it just played everywhere?”
"At 9:30 p.m. on Monday, the Powerhouse Gym in central Beijing was a half-hour from closing. As usual, “Going Home” began looping over the loudspeakers, sending the weight lifters and treadmill runners fleeing for the locker rooms. The manager, Zhu Mingde, followed, eager to turn off the lights and lock the doors. Mr. Zhu could not pinpoint when “Going Home” had become China’s adieu anthem, nor could he identify the famous musician behind it. But despite its lack of lyrics, he understood the melody’s cultural significance. “All I know is when they play this song, it’s quitting time,” he said."
In China, Kenny G’s instrumental “Going Home” has been used for years as a way to tell people to leave.
In China, Kenny G’s instrumental “Going Home” has been used for years as a way to tell people to leave.
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You know Kenny G. plays a soprano sax, right? And that the fellow covered with bees in that picture is playing a clarinet, right? A clarinet is not a sax.
A much more evocative and beautiful "Going Home".
Sorry, it's actually "goin' home".
I am not going to listen to Kenny G, but thanks for posting that excerpt of Antonin Dvorak's From the New World.
Maybe Dvorak was the Kenny G of classical composers, but at least the cor anglais player in the Wiener Philharmoniker has a proper embouchure. I assume Mr. G was hit in the mouth with a brick or something, leading to his asymmetrical playing style.
And FtNW is a lovely piece of music. I never get tired of hearing it.
Ok, you got me there sixty.
In America to end a party we simply close the bar. Boom. Everyone leaves.
B3ta's weekly challenge is 'early prototypes'. One of the entries is a row of pods each containing a long-haired human male. Each pod has its own label; Kenney D, Kenny E, Kenny F, then finally pod busted open, Kenny G.
That's clearly a Bee Flat clarinet.
I just now saw confirmation of the game theory post about weeding out impostors.
Food Network catch a scam show where they set up cameras all over and watch what goes on when the owner isn't around.
Employees are running a charity actively, the bosses charity, but urgently not passively. They suspect evil doing and there is evil doing but not as they expected. To test if the charity is real they suggest to shave a guy's head for $100.00. If real then someone will shave, if unreal they certainly will not.
But they do!
Turns out they're still crooked but in a different way. It's just that $100 was still worth it.
The point is they tried the game theory.
At many NYC latin clubs it used to be Last Dance with Donna Summer.
Hey that is an alternative sax. You are not supposed to make fun of someone who prefers alternative sax.
What are you a bigot?
(1) Better "Going Home" than "Closing Time" which is a song that should be taken out back and beaten to within an inch of its life.
(2) There was a story, back in the day, that Elvis Costello played for, like, 30 minutes or so and the audience got disgruntled,and rowdy, and refused to leave, so the engineers pumped 120 dB of white noise through the PA to clear the theater.
I have no idea whether that story is true.
Last dance,Last dance for luuUUuuve.Yes, it's my last chance for romance to-niyiyiyiight. I need you by me -- beside me to guide me to hold me to scold me to buy me drinks to spin me to win me to... never mind you don't appear to be up to all that. It's the last dance, the last dance tonight.
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