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I fell into a youtube hole this afternoon and found this video that may move Pachelbel's Cannon in D from the I hate playing it category.
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On the guitar and bass guitar forums, there is a category for rants about over-played and badly-played songs. The most posted rants are about "Mustang Sally." Having played that in too many bands for too many drunk people, I understand the OP's position.

It is difficult for me to play, sing or listen to the Canon for the same reasons, especially since I had to play it for my cousin's wedding some years ago on keyboards. I am not a "real" organist by any means, but somehow I got through it. So I also appreciate the OP's perspective from that position as well.

On the other hand: take a lesson from our brass band brethern/sisters. If you attend brass band concerts, or listen to recordings on the two major web streams, eventually a piece will come up that the rest of us yell, "cheese," or something worse. But listen: even if the selection is the worst, the most cliche'd, worn out with repetition, or killed from too many bad renditions, a brass band will still do its best to get music out of the selection and avoid the cliche's, the cheese, and give it their best to make the selection into music again.

This is how I approach all of my gigs, whether concert band, party band, church choir, or whatever: stop, take a deep breath, and rise above and make music out of the selection again.

The Canon in D gets worn out from repetition, the first time. I hope I didn't miss out too much, but I could tolerate the choral arrangement for only a few seconds. The best use I could see for it, on a quick review of videos, was a busking performance where they actively pester passersby (Oopsie Mamushka), and there's a nice marimba adaptation ("Transformation of Pachelbel's Canon" by Nanae Mimura.)

I liked it- thanks for sharing.

Mark Finley wrote:I was expecting the video in the first post to be this one

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What I hate is the Messiah. I literally never heard the PC until I was almost 50, and it was in a brass quintet I started. The tuba player (I was on horn) could not hold the tempo and by the end we were ALWAYS at half speed or less. So I hated the tuba player, not the piece. But the Messiah....I played in very, very bad high school orchestra, many times over, that was always painfully out of tune. Especially the strings in C major. I just cannot STAND to hear the Messiah and would much rather be subjected to PC.