Water Course/Exchange (How Crayons Are Made)

I videotaped myself (rather poorly) using an iSight playing the baby grand at my parents' house, and then went back to my dorm to add the extra instruments to the mix using GarageBand. Of course, the arpeggiator sound near the end was made at home using a Roland XP-30 synthesizer.

I admit I hit a couple of clams in the beginning, and I rushed the middle section a tiny iota. But overall, I feel this should be interesting. The first time I get to show my face on youtube. If I'm lucky, I might get a video camera of my own.

EDIT: I finally got the names of both pieces in this segment, and the composer who wrote them. Thanks everybody!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• sesame
• street
• music
• piano
• vintage
• Richard
• Harvey
• Exchange
• Water
• Course

[faamore]

I have been watching this over & over since I found it. Thanks so much for posting!

[mcguinnfan]

Beautiful. This is really a nice performance of a piece of music I've always adored. Thanks for posting this.

[JonasClark]

Goodness, all the good mysteries finally getting solved - first the Sesame Street "toys, robots and satellites" song being named, now these! Fantastic transcription and playing!

[cyberspektor7]

Wow, you have some real talent. And i loved this piece of music on Sesame Street when i was a kid. So good memories!!!! Thanks for posting!

[NLind]

ALERT- It's now on iTunes!

[AlexRGravlin]

Another month. Still not on iTunes.

[mrDryMartin]

Nifty digits the original KPM LP is finally out on itunes.... the tracks used here are "Water course" and "Exchange".....

[AlexRGravlin]

I searched. It's not on there yet...

[criticalmess1]

Josh, you have been recognised. Richard Harvey, who composed this amazing music, is playing in Kingston on 20 July 2009, with John Williams. Please attend if you can and make yourself known to Richard. They're at the Rose Theatre, as part of an extended world tour. JW plays guitar like no-one else on earth, while RH plays recorders, mandolin, pan pipes, ocarina, percussion, flutes, psaltery and many other instruments, most of them more or less at the same time. Tickets from Rose Theatre Kingston

[criticalmess1]

Great stuff, Josh. You should come to Kingston on 20 July, to the John Williams / Richard Harvey World Tour concert at the Rose Theatre and make yourself known to Richard. Concert will be great. JW plays guitar like no-one else on earth, while RH plays recorders, mandolin, pan pipes, ocarina, percussion, flutes, psaltery and many other instruments, most of them more or less at the same time. Tickets available now online from Rose Theatre Kingston