A bit of instrumental music today, just for a change, with Steve Sharp Nelson and his identical cellist twin fighting a cello lightsaber battle while playing around with John Williams’ music. Watch out for Darth Vader’s solo…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgAlQuqzl8o&hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0]Honestly, I can’t think of a single thing to add to this. It this speaks for itself.
You will start cello lessons now.
If you want to see Nelson being slightly more serious (but only slightly), I can also recommend his version of J.S. Bach’s Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1: Prelude, in which he undergoes mitosis into 8 versions of himself and plays both the Prelude and a fairly entertaining series of accompaniments. I’m a bit of a sucker for the whole ‘cello used like a guitar’ thing, I must say.
Enjoy! And may the force be with you!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4BzonlVlw&version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0]
[…] (everyone writes operas based on Beaumarchais’s work). Friday’s bit of silliness was Steve Sharp Nelson’s Cello Wars. If you’ve ever wondered whether you could play a cello with a lightsaber, wonder no more! […]