oscaralbert Review of High Note

High Note (1960)

Elementary school music class proved a problem for many pupils . . .

[8/10 · 19 March 2016]

. . . back in the 1900s, when most American public schools still had a music teacher, music classes, and Music Education. (I cannot for the life of me figure out how such a subject could help a kid better sell a batch of McNuggets 10 years down the road.) HIGH NOTE is carefully constructed by Warner Bros. animators to help U.S. school kids feel better about flunking Music. What other subject REQUIRES you to rest--whether you need to or not--for a precise number of instants, this duration derived from some obscure code of hieroglyphics used nowhere in the Real World?! What if you MUST rest for two beats, but the symbol written on your "music" by some dude who died 400 years ago calls for only half a beat's vacation? If bathroom breaks were doled out in such a regimented fashion, no classroom would have a dry floor by the day's final bell. Warner comments on this Resting Scandal by have a quarter note rest turn into a yipping dog toward the end of HIGH NOTE. While the conductor's busy chasing this mutt, most of the notes get high. If J.K. Simmons saw HIGH NOTE, all this mayhem would surely give him WHIPLASH!