About Throwcase

This site was created by a classical musician who was busy waiting for a concert to start. It seemed like a good idea at the time…

There’s a beautiful spirit of irreverence and mischief amongst classical musicians that is rarely visible to the world. This humble site asks: what would it be like if the sorts of things we say to each other in green rooms, on trains, and under great pressure from impossibly high standards and a precarious industry, could be captured and shared?

Would it spark joy and wonder, like one of Mozart’s masterpieces? Or would it perhaps be moderately enjoyable, like his first two hundred or so pieces?

You decide.

13 thoughts on “About Throwcase

  • November 10, 2014 at 12:02 am
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    Please clear up a problem for me. I have been racking my brain trying to understand why you call your blog “Throwcase.” I know you are a pianist so is it that you have accompanied a particularly uppity violinist and were seized by the desire to throw his (violin) case (without the violin in it, I hope) out the window (and maybe him, too)? Or do you throw around piano cases to keep in shape and to convince uppity violinist to be a lot less uppity? Please resolve this for me.This and the search for the unified theory of quantum mechanics are keeping me up at night. Sincerely, A Perplexed (and very unassuming) Violinist.

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    • November 10, 2014 at 8:55 am
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      Glad you have been thinking about it!
      That was the plan.
      🙂

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  • November 10, 2014 at 9:05 am
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    On behalf of uppity violinists everywhere, at least please tell me you don’t have it in for us? I need to sleep at night without worrying about deranged (or justifiably irritated) pianists. A Perplexed (and very tired) Violinist.

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    • November 10, 2014 at 9:07 am
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      No connection to any violinists, don’t worry. I often work with singers, so I’m not afraid of the odd crazy string-player!

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    • April 27, 2015 at 10:14 pm
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      Thanks!
      What a fascinatingly weird site.

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  • April 28, 2015 at 1:55 am
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    You, sir/madam, are a Verbarast…a word molester. Well done. Don’t forget you must make your presence known to local literary authorities when you move.

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    • April 28, 2015 at 6:05 am
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      Thanks!
      I like the term “verbarast”. I might steal that one.
      Check out the ‘Illogic’ articles too for even more verbarasty.

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  • April 29, 2015 at 4:49 am
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    Purloin away! A recent coinage, it has been languishing, little used. To us verbarasts (oui, mea culpa aussi) it’s all chowder.

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  • May 1, 2015 at 4:13 am
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    Forgot to alloy my thanks for your Illogic! Neither bood nor gad, but fully both, as behooves ill fine magic.

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    • May 1, 2015 at 8:06 am
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      You magical my morning!

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  • May 24, 2015 at 5:41 am
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    Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York
    He had ten thousand men
    He marched them up to the top of the hill
    And he had them all again

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