#48 Cover tunes.

I hate cover tunes.
That's one of the great things about classical music. You can't say that this guy did a recording, and this guy did another recording, and this guy did an acoustic version, and that band played it with kazoos, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra actually did a version that people liked, and we can't remember who wrote it, but we hate him because his song plays on every radio station because people from every genre have COPIED HIM!
No.
In classical music, ONE person writes something, and then EVERBYBODY plays it, and EVERYBODY knows who it was that wrote it.
Wait a minute, you say. What about Flight of the Bumblebee? What about Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini? What about the La ci darem la mano variations?
Yes, those are songs composers have written off of other composers.
But they are not cover tunes.
A cover tune would be when you take a composition for orchestra, say, and transcribe it for...band.
That's wrong.
We're currently playing two songs by Bach in band right now. One is a very famous organ work known as "Jesu, joy of man's desiring." (Really? Why does everybody love that song?) Also, another known as "If Thou be near."
Over 1,100 works Bach wrote, and those are the two we got.
I know for a fact that we have at least one Prelude and Fugue of his in our vault.
But we play this.
Cover tunes are evil.