As xmas gets closer (dangerously so), my project is also getting closer to completion. Let me introduce to you now the members of The Silly Xmas Orchestra (is the xmas silly, or is it the orchestra? Couldn't say...):
Let's start with the strings, which are always very, very important. You don't want to upset string players of the orchestra, they are a force. Cuz they're many. Well, not that many in my smaller, chamber orchestra, but anyway... first violin (and the only one, hahaha), Mrs. Andrea Coppola.
First guitar, Mr. Dude Darabont Labyrinsky.
Second guitar, Mr. Peter Leone.
On luth (oh yeah!), Mr. Serge Tarant
Viola da gamba (not a cello, but almost) - Mr. Vasile Spiel Berger.
The harp is not really among the strings group, but it's a stringed instrument... has a sort of a special place in the orchestra, slightly separated. I placed it in the special-instruments group in my orchestra, which is going to be introduced in a sec. So say hi to Mrs. Smiley Lucas-Hardcovsky.
Let's introduce now the woodwind instruments. On blockflote (btw, it's pronounced block-floete, not bloeck-floete :| ), the uber-talented Mr. Egg Forman.
Playing the oboe, Mr. Mihai Curtiz.
Playing the bassoon, Mr. Pine Apple Jackson.
Somewhere between the woodwinds and the brass there's a weird ass instrument, called saxophone... Say hello to Mr. Soft Lumet.
OK, moving on to the brass, we can start with the very important trumpet player, Mr. Hitch 'Weird-James' Copkins.
Cornet 1 (well, in fact, nobody really knows what instrument is that, but the players tell me it's a cornet... I guess it must be some kind of obscure conspiracy...), Mr. Scorse Shostacovic.
Cornet 2, Mrs. Fernanda Coen-Browriggins.
OK, should I introduce the percussion now? Well, all right. Here's the tambourine, graciously manoeuvred by the wonderful Mrs. Li Mei.
On temple block, Mr. Silly Singer.
Most important percussion equipment, the big drum (never heard of the Big Drum? You hear now! No, it's not a bass drum...), beaten to exhaustion by Mr. Rick Kube.
Last, but not least, the special, ethnic instruments: on bagpipes, Mr. Octavian Welles.
A combination of dulcimer and hammered dulcimer... played by hand by the one and only Mrs. Donna Demme-Binsky.
Aaaaaaaaaaand we need a keyboard to conclude. On the accordion, Mr. Nolan Nevins.
Coming from as far as San Antonio Tokyo, conductor and director of the San Antonio Tokyo Symphony, give a big round of applause to Maestro Tudor Kurosawa.
(very very last character that I absolutely have to present here - 7 year old, mentally disturbed and mentally disturbing, Johnny Fincher. He will sit somewhere in the back, trying to figure out what's going on...)