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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Some poor innocent coyote has just pulled the lever on his ACME Rocket Launcher, perfectly aimed to hit his approaching meal, when the roadrunner sees a sudden banana peel and stops short so he’s narrowly missed by the rocket, which skids on the peel, flipping and spinning in the air before blowing up the anchor of the spit of rock that was suspending the coyote over a gorge. Humorous falling, flattening and accordion-walking ensue.












  • In addition to all the good answers previously given, a conductor interprets what the composer has written. And different conductors may create very different interpretations of the same piece. They can set the basic tempo faster or slower, they can get the orchestra to really lean in to a particular musical phrase or de-emphasise it, they can bring out the horns at one point or hush them a bit and let us focus on the oboe or piccolo… A good conductor has studied and notated the entire score for some time before they and the orchestra even begin to rehearse.

    So, part of that bow at the end can be to say, “what do you think of this interpretation compared to all the other times you’ve heard this famous symphony?” Then they usually turn around and wave the orchestra members to stand, which means, “and didn’t these guys do a great job executing it!?”