Well, if you’d taken up the violin like your mother wanted, you wouldn’t be in this position, now would you? 
(Just kidding, I love the cello the bestest. But there are some boring cello parts, I believe you! Like singing alto, it’s all support and the music would sound terrible without it, but you’ve either got weird intervals or the same damn droning thing for 7 minutes.)
I absolutely love this song.
Not to hijack, but I played French Horn for about 12 years, and when I wasn’t playing off-notes for rhythm on some piece designed for trumpet and woodwinds, I was playing Die Mesitersinger. Makes my skin crawl to think of it.
Or Barber.
Anyone who listens to Classic FM in the UK soon becomes sick of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, Grieg’s Piano Concerto (the famous movement, naturally), the Lark Ascending, the Four Seasons, and various other usual suspects. I reckon you could fit most of their playlist on to a modestly-sized CD rack, or one iPod.
This movie is why I fell in love with it; now I can barely stand it. I specifically requested that the string trio at my wedding NOT play it. AND THEY PLAYED IT!
The examples would not be complete with out TSO’s Christmas Canon.
I found this version a couple of years ago, not sure if anyone here will like it, but here it is.
Nor was it incomplete. See post #34.
“Classical Westport” was a record store in Kansas City, MO. The cash register had a cartoon taped to it.
A man is chained to the wall of a dungeon, and the speech balloon from a large speaker on the wall opposite is saying “Now, once again, for your listening pleasure, Pachelbel’s Canon”.
It was titled “Prisoner of Pachelbel”.
Update: Found it! Not exactly as I remember it, but it was from 1981!
Good point. I’m fixing it. [Previously titled “Pachelbel’s Canon in D Minor”]
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It’s not as overplayed as Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, but at least Mozart has another 600 or so opuses that get into the rotation. Pachelbel’s Vespers for choir is an amazing piece, but he will forever be known as THE one hit wonder of classical music (even though the definitive one hit wonder is Paul Dukas, for Sorceror’s Apprentice, mainly because his will ordered all copies of his compositions burned upon his death, and that was one of the few that survived).
Pachelbel’s Chaconne in f is pretty good and more durable than the Canon.
Barber at least gets some of his other pieces played. Albinoni didn’t even write the one piece attributed to him that gets any radio play - the Adagio in G was written in 1945 by Remo Giazotto “based on a fragment by Albinoni” (or not, depending on the version of the story you believe).