Herbert.. Rupert.. er.. whatever. OMIGOD this is daft and insulting. I laughed at it, but it's a palm-faced headshaking laugh--like laughing at Beavis and Butthead. :P
@OrchestrationOnline I'm not really a composer myself (except when the random creative bent strikes me--but really, that's not "composition" so much as the drawing world's 'scrap doodles') but I used to work in Internet related tech support--a job where silly questions and crazy ideas about how things work is the norm from customers and delivered in rapid succession, call after call. :) Oddly, I liked it. heheh
will show this to my class. I am a music teacher at a performing arts high school in Sydney and thins is fantastic the kids will get a kick out of it.
@MusicalTalent89 Yeah, "deaf" not "death." An audience member asked me if I was deaf (since Beethoven was deaf, so all composers must be deaf, right?). Then when I told this to an interviewer, she asked me seriously if she thought I would compose better symphonies if I were deaf. *sigh*
When one has not a love of own proffecion never will respect others and will always do foolish thinks but not mistaces as mistakes may do all but important is when you wish / dare to correct.
@NinoUrushadze1 Not sure exactly what you're trying to say - but if one really loves one's profession, and cares about the new people who are joining it, then they will show them how to put up with annoying realities and still act professional.
The questions about Beethoven literally made me guffaw. How could anyone think that a composer would want to be deaf?! Composers ... love music ... O_O
As a musician myself, this interview stings, but at least it's also funny =[]
Oh man, people like this make my BLOOD BOIL!! I am not arrogant, nor do I think highly of myself, but sometimes when I speak with people like these, I want to arrogantly express what composers do, and how much more work goes into orchestration than 'rap,' or any type of band. Not that bands' music is illegitimate, but it doesn't take nearly as much work as orchestration.
When I tell people I am going to study composition, they say "oh, that's cool." As other people have commented here, composers and musicians are ridiculously underestimated. I am sorry you had to endure these patronizing interviews, Thomas! It's a shame that your expertise skill goes right over the heads of these silly interviewers. >_<
@PertinaciousOne Thanks, man, that's a natural reaction, but just you remember to keep a cool head just like Dr. Hubert Finkelsteen here. No matter how stupid a question, be gracious and try to say as much as you can about your music.
Comment #30 - Thanks for all the positive feedback on this, and I'm glad that I gave you all a couple of laughs. Behind the sarcasm, though, is a serious message: you are going to be asked questions just as stupid as these, and you are going to have to keep your cool just like poor Dr. Finklesteen, no matter how aggravating or uninformed the interview goes. When you're on the air, never let them get under your skin. You never know who might be listening...
I'm a studying composer working on my skills but even in my small area of experience I've encountered many conversations like this/these, unless the person tells me right in the beginning of a conversation understand the basic workings of theory, the conversation almost always drifts to some ''composer'' they know. 99.9% of the time those people really mean songwriter or musician.
Oh my goodness gracious! I can't believe this is even loosely based on reality!!! =))))
That's such a shame that people actually underestimate musicians immensely. I remember, one day some lady asked me about my profession. When I said I was a musician, she said something like: "To me, musicians are just lazy people who don't want to work, that's why they choose music." I will remember that for the rest of my life...
Thanks for the video, Thomas. What gave you the idea to make it?
@KlimovK Not a surprising attitude. People have no idea how much work this is.
I got the idea because videos about xtranormal videos about professional musicians and music teachers having ridiculous conversations are viral right now, and I thought it was time to add a composer version. And also to immortalize these moments of silliness for my YouTube audience, as a public service in case you all get this kind of interview someday.
It doesn't surprise me that some interviewers would ask questions this infuriating and demonstrate such little understanding of the subject matter. You would have to have been very patient.
@AlexSmithMusic Sort of - as I've said, things are slightly altered. But yes, I've been interviewed not once but several times in which the interviewer went on and on about people they knew who were "composers" and never let me get a word in edgewise.
You know, I think have met that interviewer. Indeed, it must be my neighbor. She asked me to play my latest composition, fired up a cigarette, and fell to sleep halfway through the prelude. At the end, she awoke to say (without removing the cigarette from her lips) "You should hear my cousin play and he never had a lesson. Here, gimme that gitbox and I'll teach ya the first two chords of Take This Job and Shove It."
@biggbaddjohn It's bits and pieces from different interviews. The thing about being deaf actually came from an audience member, but the rest of the comments are from various interviews, altered slightly to protect the innocent (me).
My word... This cousin does indeed sound very professional...
chrismearscomposer 1 month ago
Fantastic, I guess I have all this to look forward to, very funny though. :)
TerenceJonesMusic 1 month ago
Herbert.. Rupert.. er.. whatever. OMIGOD this is daft and insulting. I laughed at it, but it's a palm-faced headshaking laugh--like laughing at Beavis and Butthead. :P
Mi1ezDR 1 month ago
@Mi1ezDR I predict that you'll get asked even sillier questions one day...all part of this wonderful business we call composing!
OrchestrationOnline 1 month ago
@OrchestrationOnline I'm not really a composer myself (except when the random creative bent strikes me--but really, that's not "composition" so much as the drawing world's 'scrap doodles') but I used to work in Internet related tech support--a job where silly questions and crazy ideas about how things work is the norm from customers and delivered in rapid succession, call after call. :) Oddly, I liked it. heheh
Mi1ezDR 1 month ago
will show this to my class. I am a music teacher at a performing arts high school in Sydney and thins is fantastic the kids will get a kick out of it.
romo182 2 months ago
Wow, I laughed out loud for some of these
doob10163 2 months ago
OMG，That is sooooo interesting~~ How did you make that? apart from TTS technology? the animation?
joggerxiong 2 months ago
Wow... that was really awkward... Did they really ask you if you wanted to be death so you can be like beethoven?
MusicalTalent89 2 months ago
@MusicalTalent89 Yeah, "deaf" not "death." An audience member asked me if I was deaf (since Beethoven was deaf, so all composers must be deaf, right?). Then when I told this to an interviewer, she asked me seriously if she thought I would compose better symphonies if I were deaf. *sigh*
OrchestrationOnline 2 months ago
Haha, so funny:) Loved it:)
ComposerLarsik 3 months ago
Someone once asked me how many "dots and lines" my piece had
24Pianist 4 months ago
When one has not a love of own proffecion never will respect others and will always do foolish thinks but not mistaces as mistakes may do all but important is when you wish / dare to correct.
NinoUrushadze1 4 months ago
@NinoUrushadze1 Not sure exactly what you're trying to say - but if one really loves one's profession, and cares about the new people who are joining it, then they will show them how to put up with annoying realities and still act professional.
OrchestrationOnline 4 months ago
@OrchestrationOnline
ah, just not writen in order as i mind on my native (Georgian) and write in English :)
I agree with you surely.
NinoUrushadze1 4 months ago
The questions about Beethoven literally made me guffaw. How could anyone think that a composer would want to be deaf?! Composers ... love music ... O_O
As a musician myself, this interview stings, but at least it's also funny =[]
ZachEatonMusic 4 months ago
@ZachEatonMusic :D
gonrolgonrol 4 months ago
Deliciously!
MartinRaetzJr 6 months ago
"You get money for writing music?" "Yes, this is the Job description of a professional composer!" How great!
NiclasThobaben 6 months ago
Arthur "two sheds" Jackson
5hit4 7 months ago
I still love this video. So hilarious. Hahaha
DanielCiurlizza 9 months ago
I feel kinda bad watching this 'cause I knoooow I've asked dumb questions and cut people odd before.. :(
RisuRoars 10 months ago
People are DUMB. Lol
chichi123xx 10 months ago
Oh man, people like this make my BLOOD BOIL!! I am not arrogant, nor do I think highly of myself, but sometimes when I speak with people like these, I want to arrogantly express what composers do, and how much more work goes into orchestration than 'rap,' or any type of band. Not that bands' music is illegitimate, but it doesn't take nearly as much work as orchestration.
PertinaciousOne 1 year ago 4
@PertinaciousOne
(cont)
When I tell people I am going to study composition, they say "oh, that's cool." As other people have commented here, composers and musicians are ridiculously underestimated. I am sorry you had to endure these patronizing interviews, Thomas! It's a shame that your expertise skill goes right over the heads of these silly interviewers. >_<
PertinaciousOne 1 year ago
@PertinaciousOne Thanks, man, that's a natural reaction, but just you remember to keep a cool head just like Dr. Hubert Finkelsteen here. No matter how stupid a question, be gracious and try to say as much as you can about your music.
OrchestrationOnline 1 year ago 4
@OrchestrationOnline
I'll definitely keep that in mind, maestro!
PertinaciousOne 1 year ago
That's hilarious and sad at the same time
Hauris 1 year ago
Hilarious!
peter5992 1 year ago
Comment #30 - Thanks for all the positive feedback on this, and I'm glad that I gave you all a couple of laughs. Behind the sarcasm, though, is a serious message: you are going to be asked questions just as stupid as these, and you are going to have to keep your cool just like poor Dr. Finklesteen, no matter how aggravating or uninformed the interview goes. When you're on the air, never let them get under your skin. You never know who might be listening...
OrchestrationOnline 1 year ago 2
Some really terrible interviews Frank Zappa had to endure came to mind while watching this. Looks like it hasn't gotten any better since then.
brcamu 1 year ago
haha excellent very funny!!!
ezev8logos 1 year ago
this frustrates me
RKRSizzle11 1 year ago
that must have been very frustrating.
I'm a studying composer working on my skills but even in my small area of experience I've encountered many conversations like this/these, unless the person tells me right in the beginning of a conversation understand the basic workings of theory, the conversation almost always drifts to some ''composer'' they know. 99.9% of the time those people really mean songwriter or musician.
beautaillefer 1 year ago
There is only one internet dialect abbreviation that suits this: OMG. Do you wish you were deaf...
ElTGV 1 year ago
lol - I think a lot of us can relate to most of this!
JonBrooksComposer 1 year ago
This was great, thank you
danporto 1 year ago
HAHAHA.
i'm almost certain i've heard of this school in boston.
jorde18 1 year ago
Jajaja weird name for a composer (?) so weird thing to ask jaja amazing ._.
RodrigusVI 1 year ago
that was pretty funny :D
LeonComposer 1 year ago
What the... ok this was fun :D
MarkoRuzinOfficial 1 year ago
unbelievable... but it again proves my long suspected theory: There ARE stupid questions!
catburglar82 1 year ago
Oh my goodness gracious! I can't believe this is even loosely based on reality!!! =))))
That's such a shame that people actually underestimate musicians immensely. I remember, one day some lady asked me about my profession. When I said I was a musician, she said something like: "To me, musicians are just lazy people who don't want to work, that's why they choose music." I will remember that for the rest of my life...
Thanks for the video, Thomas. What gave you the idea to make it?
KlimovK 1 year ago 5
@KlimovK Not a surprising attitude. People have no idea how much work this is.
I got the idea because videos about xtranormal videos about professional musicians and music teachers having ridiculous conversations are viral right now, and I thought it was time to add a composer version. And also to immortalize these moments of silliness for my YouTube audience, as a public service in case you all get this kind of interview someday.
OrchestrationOnline 1 year ago
It doesn't surprise me that some interviewers would ask questions this infuriating and demonstrate such little understanding of the subject matter. You would have to have been very patient.
Composer1992 1 year ago
This was HILARIOUS!
jimiclaptoncarl18 1 year ago
wow, I can't believe how ignorant people can be. Was there really an interviewer that kept telling you about his/her cousin?
AlexSmithMusic 1 year ago
@AlexSmithMusic Sort of - as I've said, things are slightly altered. But yes, I've been interviewed not once but several times in which the interviewer went on and on about people they knew who were "composers" and never let me get a word in edgewise.
OrchestrationOnline 1 year ago
My deepest respects to You, sir, for not throwing anything at the interviewer :D
A hilarious compilation, but sad at the same time...
pjkorab 1 year ago
This is very funny XD The dead pan punch lines are awesome!
sutphoe 1 year ago
The computer voices of these things either makes me angry at how bad it sounds or makes it funny :D
Edbrad 1 year ago
TOO FUNNY!
nickmaestro 1 year ago
This. was. AWESOME!!!
shohanc 1 year ago
You know, I think have met that interviewer. Indeed, it must be my neighbor. She asked me to play my latest composition, fired up a cigarette, and fell to sleep halfway through the prelude. At the end, she awoke to say (without removing the cigarette from her lips) "You should hear my cousin play and he never had a lesson. Here, gimme that gitbox and I'll teach ya the first two chords of Take This Job and Shove It."
Ron
13crickets 1 year ago 2
This is based on a true story ? that's funny
biggbaddjohn 1 year ago
@biggbaddjohn It's bits and pieces from different interviews. The thing about being deaf actually came from an audience member, but the rest of the comments are from various interviews, altered slightly to protect the innocent (me).
OrchestrationOnline 1 year ago
commission that runs the orchestra and forces u to compose all day hahaha...this is gold
max05XIII 1 year ago 2
Holy good God!!!!!!! HAHAHAHA wow
saladshootavvv 1 year ago
I can imagine how awkward that must have been for you! Very funny with the animation.
miiwiiplay 1 year ago 2