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    Which Hungarian composer's setting of which Scottish poem calls for an espresso coffee machine?

    Question #99211. Asked by Baloo55th. (Sep 06 08 1:12 PM)


    edmund80

    		Mátyás Seiber.

    William McGonagall, Scottish poet among other things, wrote " The Famous Tay Whale ", which was set to music by the above Hungarian composer first performed in 1958. The score call for the use of a full orchestra plus an espresso machine and a fog horn !

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_Seiber

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall


    Sep 06 08, 3:08 PM
    Baloo55th

    		Yay! The piece was, of course a commission for a Hoffnung Festival concert. (Another classic example of 'Hoffnung' music involved vacuum cleaners, floor polisher and rifles... Not to mention the 1812 Overture played by the Dolmetsch Recorder Consort.) If you ever find an old (or reissued) record of Hoffnung Festival music, get it. Definitely different...

    Sep 06 08, 3:27 PM

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