A puzzling question

Posted on 05/30/2008 by Meryl Yourish

If anyone can figure out why I’ve had Brahms’ Hungarian Dances running through my head all morning, I’d appreciate it. Because it took me a while to figure out that no, it isn’t Slovanic Dances, and no, Sorena’s orchestra did not play it at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday, and, well, I haven’t heard it in an age, so I have no idea why this music refuses to exit my brain.

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9 Responses to A puzzling question

  1. Mathias Hellsten says:
    05/30/2008 at 11:38 am

    It’s a great piece of music, must be why! :)

  2. DJ Wahaba says:
    05/30/2008 at 11:50 am

    The best explanation will the freudian one: try to think where, when or with whom did you hear it to last; try to be conscious to the emotions the music gives you and then, with the combination of the first, why do you remember it now.

    Another one will be that the NSA had implanted a nano sized bug in your right lobe of the brain to spy on you and it’s Microsoft based so… bugs you know…

  3. John M says:
    05/30/2008 at 12:13 pm

    Hope it’s not a tumor ;-)

  4. Meryl Yourish says:
    05/30/2008 at 1:28 pm

    DJ, I think sometimes a song is just a song… but if I have to choose, I’ll take Theory Number Two, please.

  5. Sabba Hillel says:
    05/30/2008 at 2:04 pm

    Maybe you are about to meet someone with whom you are going to hear the music and it will come to have a significant meaning.

    BTW, you forgot to say whether you preferred Theory 2A or 2B.

    Actually, according to Theory 2B, they are trying to send you a message. I doubt if a nanosized device whould be able to contain the Micro$oft bloat.

    Besides, VISTA probably would be unable to transmit or receive.

  6. Elisson says:
    05/30/2008 at 4:04 pm

    Too many Warner Brothers cartoons, p’raps.

  7. Meryl Yourish says:
    05/30/2008 at 4:23 pm

    Yeah, except I haven’t seen any Bugs Bunny cartoons in ages. Or even thought about them. The only thing I thought of lately in that vein is the Three Stooges. And they didn’t have anything to do with Hungarian Dance #5 as far as I know.

  8. Alex Bensky says:
    05/30/2008 at 8:36 pm

    I could be wrong, but I don’t think the Brahms Hungarian dances are used in the Warner Bros. cartoon. Smetena is and of course there’s Rossini and Wagner. Even my brother, who for some reason loves Wagner and sits through the entire Ring cycle when they do it in Seattle, told me that when he saw “Die Valkyrie,” every time they played the main theme all he could think was, “Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit…”

  9. Long_rifle says:
    05/30/2008 at 10:17 pm

    Two words for ya:

    “Space Herpes”.

    It’s the gift that keeps on giving!