The Humor of Hadyn | St. Lawrence String Quartet | TEDxStanford

[@tishprouse3893]

Rest in Peace, Geoff Nuttall. What a great artist, character, and instructor. Canada has lost a great member of our musical family. My sympathies and condolences to all those who worked with him, knew him, and were his close friends and family.

[@MKPiatkowski]

Came here after hearing the news. What a great loss.

[@ambroseezzat2703]

Ah Yes. Good ol' Hadyn. I've always like that fellow. When it comes to the Classical Era, A lot of people argue that Moazrt and Beethevon are the best, but I disagree. Hadyn is where it's at. After all, he's the father of the symphony! Love you forever Frazn Joesph Hadyn!

[@tommybalboa3499]

haydn haydn haydn

[@bret6484]

Very subtel joke, mad rescept

[@justineraytizon4118]

Truly humorous. who new music could actually make you laugh like for real. not just laugh out of enjoyment, but laugh because it's funny. and without words even.

[@1018jsmart]

Haydn *

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

ya boi really be out here headbanging while playing violin - that's quite a feat.

[@AlexRiversMusic]

HAYDN ❤️

[@ambroselam626]

Here comes a question: at the three-bar rest near the end, should a good musician a) act like the music has ended and have the audience fall for the joke, or b) be able to convince the audience that the music is going on even with such a long stop?

[@jackthegiankiller]

When I've seen SLSQ perform this, they always let the audience fall for it, then keep playing! Completes the effect. This is such a great video to watch to help even more people get on board to the power and sophistication of musical language.

[@davekeyes5589]

Some audience members laughed when Geoff said that “Haydn is God”. Poor souls just don’t understand; in time perhaps they will.

[@darshan7771patil]

What an amazing quartet and the players 👌

[@gberndt4music]

Bravo!

[@OmfgOakt]

actually that second violinist is Matthias McIntire, not Mark Fewer

[@nickandrew3458]

Great fantastic I loved. congrats..

[@Enlimdr]

Grand stuff !

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

Schubert did great musical jokes based on expectation - i.e end of Wanderer Fantasia or Phantasie in f min for 4 hands. Not so much jokes as...studies in the meaning of life wrapped up into a kernal of musical genius - also based on expectation.

[@安妮瘋古物]

It is very good but it is very loud but it’s not easy to do the viola But it is very good and it’s not easy to play and I am going to stop playing the viola and I think it’s really hard

[@matthewmartinez3079]

Which string quartet is this by Haydn?

[@johnkiunke5617]

op. 33 no. 2

[@dunnedigby4957]

It was mentioned many times - where were you?

[@88tongued]

Make sure you guffaw out loud so others know you're smart enough to notice the main punchlines. They aren't hilarious, but you don't want to be the odd one out.

[@josephbarker3717]

Terrible acoustic to play/listen in

[@montazmeahii6029]

Jokes aren’t as funny when you explain them

[@jackthegiankiller]

That is true of one liners, I agree. But in this case, think of it as explaining a joke in Spanish, for example, to a non-native speaker, not only are the words unfamiliar, but so are the cultural contexts etc. For those unfamiliar with the complexity of language and what is and can be communicated with music, and in this case, classical music, a little explanation goes a long way toward helping newbies get on board an enjoy the richness of music so much more.

[@lotusbuds2000]

don't care for the 1st violin's sound.

[@MaggieBoy12345]

It’s not them, it’s the acoustic. There’s absolutely no resonance at all; it’s a dead room.

[@felixdeckers8863]

They were playing really bad though

[@dunnedigby4957]

You just didn't get it, did you. (Not only that, your grammar's not that hot. It's badly, not bad.) They are a top professional string quartet, and that was a stunning demonstration of a classical composer having a lot of fun. You obviously are out of your league here. However, I do congratulate you on choosing a lump of broccoli to represent you. An excellent choice.

[@liomatsu1931]

They were playing in a room with terrible acoustics so that significantly affected their overall sound

[@jackblank8197]

@@dunnedigby4957 ​ Dunne Digby bro try chill and enjoy the music instead of insulting people in the comments because of how much more musically inclined you may be than them. Everyone's entitled to their own opinions about music.