Victor Borge

good evening and welcome to Minneapolis I have been looking forward to this evenings performance ever since 7:30 two weeks development we are going to have an information pretty soon I'm right in pardon me pardon me pardon me positive where do you come from well oh you don't know each other I come from Copenhagen that was here before you anyway are there any children in the audience yes okay Oh we do have some children here that means I can't do the second half in the loot I wear the tie the long one the very long one yet I have a request I usually do not do requests numbers unless of course I have been asked to do so and that has happened I have a request from a lady called me at the hotel she said mr. boogie would you be kind enough to play and then she could remember the title of the things you wanted to hear so I said perhaps you could come and sing it for me and if I know it I will play it and she said well I can't remember go and then she said you're the musician you oughta know the piece I said I'm sorry I can't help you in in in this instant and she said it really doesn't matter because I'm not going to be there tonight so now I'm going to play something else I'm going to play a little piece by a Danish composer Mozart and Christian Mozart as you know many of you know Mozart was only from here up you have seen replicas of Mozart of course mozart was what we call a bust and stood on many pianos in windows and things and the scholars and sisters in spite of that physical handicap Mozart was fairly happily married but mrs. Mozart wasn't she went all the way to the floor what a fair compensation he rolled in four flats because he had to move three times we never stayed long enough in any of them to finish this piece and this is called a Bagatelle and it's in the key of C but who cares I hope you will enjoy it and if you don't as absolutely nothing I can do about it why were you so late you you well three pedals they only have two feet mozart's Bagatelle the key of C No where the heck is si you didn't mock the sea now I understand why so many people in America say long time no see initiate these big fat opera singers always lean against the pianos and pencil the heavy arias Mota I'm always asked to play something straight and you know it is not easy oh my time is up sorry upside-down my grandfather gave me this one a few minutes before he died for 20 bucks plus tax he was a Danish inventor he invented the soft drink which he called for up but the Danes didn't get off with this so he added some sugar I think and then he caught his fiber still no but then he tried once more at that time he called it six up well but no luck so he finally gave up and died heartbroken little did you know how close he came come right in pardon me pardon me pardon me pardon me you haven't missed much and I'm afraid you will never know who gave me this watch I don't tell them as a matter of fact he added something to music my grandfather he wasn't very musical and he was not a composer but he he wrote this and that is very important because without this we should never have had this I gave my first concert at 8:00 a few minutes after 8:00 because you know for 12 years I was concert izing and I often had an opportunity to do an encore which I generally did early in the evenings so the people when they left early could hear some of the uncle's disease some of my favorite uncles were a series of Viennese waltzes by a Japanese by a was that seriously I said japanese i speak there are three things you know I must tell you there are three things I can never remember for I speak a little Japanese and you know how I learned to speak of course you don't but there's a wonderful method we never tell you about with which you can speak or learn to speak any language you witch or anything you want to learn while you sleep not your course butters under the pillow in your bed or any bed you put a cassette player and then you insert a tape on which must be what you wish to learn of course in my case it was lessons in the Japanese language and then you run it every night until you have absorbed subconsciously what is on the tape may take weeks or months maybe a year but that's the way I learned I know you won't believe it of course but this is true I don't speak it perfectly well but I can get along and I have been doing so unfortunately I can only speak of and I'm sound asleep but I remember words like Toyota here's a good word Negi nega nega means onion in english nega nega 200 such an easy language I mentioned this particular word because if you ever are near a Japanese person who has eaten onions and it kind of bothers you just say nega nega yes so polite every mean you say a soul and back up and then they will check your picture and remember they are not very tall people they only get you from here down yeah the rest is Mozart sorry uncle I was speaking about so these Viennese waltzes as a matter of fact it is very difficult you know to choose a musical program for an audience who is not present on account of a specific musical program such as a boxing recital for instance first of all which bus hey Johan Sebastian often I found a general you have an audience likes real roses this kind of music and the other half likes riddles that's kind of music and so I'm going to play a little of this kind and I am going to play a little of that kind so that would be something for each one of you who enjoy I have a problem as you have noticed pronouncing th particularly when they are close together it's easy not easy when you have to learn to speak English and you're not brought up in an english-speaking country you have to stick out your tongue now guys things like that I'll just stick out your tongue you never know how far you know in Denmark where I grew up we speak way back here that's just a small country and we don't have much room to fool around it and it's cold in the wintertime over there I can assure you and we don't stick out anything on this because let's go get it back in again well I have some music on the piano bench a little listen along Jack and that's memorial little awesome I can assure you I prefer bit of I here bang-bang oh this is supposed to be a book not Lucy well I'm sorry what about you you care for piano music good some that'll be 85 cents do you read music you too there will be a dollar-fifty this is supposed to be a real listen little that this see these are all this is it's not a single that among these the one I gave you is that as this or that that's this you keep that what's that oh that's this all social business this that was between those theses does that's that actually that's a list but you know no different my my glasses my glasses they're not in the piano Oh a stagehand I told the doctor that I don't need blood I always try to sell you something we have a neighbor well who doesn't but he he is our next window neighbor because we do not have a door in that end of the house I'll give you five seconds more on that one he is a physician a good friend of the family his own of course and I went to see him and he said you need glasses so on the way out of his office I took her and now he wants to see me when I get back home but he can't because I got the glasses where the doctor told me that and he's a doctor he knows what he's talking about he said a person with one eye can see more than a person the two eyes can see and I doubted that of course but he said that's true because the one with one eye can see the other person's two eyes whereas the person with the two eyes can only see the other that's what you said you you you sorry but I'm sorry about that but somebody come and help me please I need somebody to turn the pages for me anybody here you work here oh I thought you were breathing what do you do I call the lights I'm Benjamin I call the lights I don't think you heard me I said what do you do here like all the whites you call the lights and that's what you do what do you call their lives you don't know I do Barb's what happened what happens is the light don't come in your column you don't know that I do long time no see I've run the lights what I run the lights you'll run denied that's against the law that's against the law are you afraid of losing your hand you're holding onto it you make your own clothes like a polymer like that so what can I do for you oh yeah I'm sorry would you be kind enough to turn the I forgot Oliver would you turn the pages for me yes we go do that thank you nice Philip but the fertilised him a lot because he should wait a minute when I'm playing I should have told you that I'm sorry on me madam are you laying eggs okay this is a nice piece nega nega apparently you don't read music but I'm sorry I should have lasted please do not hear to a slow one which gives me a chance to tell you what to do and where to do it this is a nice no she'll be kind enough it begins here and comes up your and here it says peepee but don't pay attention to that because that means pianissimo that is an italian abbreviation just the opposite of so when I say now you take this this corner a single sheet and you turn it look like that you don't have to say Zoop you can just look okay but take it up here otherwise you block my view if you put Anya as simple as that see I need the back obviously then I go over here and finish that as simple as that once English okay this is leader strong by cliffs you know bliss bliss this F this young man is frist you don't say I'm exhausted Lepus drown by frist I hope your enjoy could you put a foot of water too far too far okay press down press press like this that's it you Oh you he is an attorney American folk song 5:30 in the morning from the vile vile West ha ha ha OOP OOP OOP okay to contribute murmurs the keys welcome Marilyn Mosby excuse me what happened to your arms there might be a Mozart Marilyn has sung in many operas and has also not sung sung in many operas also not sung in many operas yesterday song Romania person has also not sung in many opposite sir exactly what I meant and it's exactly what I said hands off please she has a habit you shouldn't lean against the pianos melon because sometimes I might not be a pillar 59 of the piano next to you whooping when you say maybe a flute player you can hang on to it he can't flout the flute melody celebrating actually today she celebrating her second wedding anniversary is that true how long were you married Oh two years yes I see that's what it is yeah that's the second anyway hands off beauty but have you chosen to sing for us this evening I'd like to start with a folk song uh-huh oh one of the folk songs your uncle brought from from where Croatia yeah that's right her uncle is an archaeologist and has been archaeologist thing recently in the very far where Croatia is and he found in an old monkey in the basement of the monastery or you can say nunnery why can't you say mockery well anyway that's not my problem but anyway ah yeah hands up to Melanie's uncle brought back some manuscripts she found in that wherever it was and there are six songs and Marilyn sings all six not now but she know the more these are some old folk songs for the old folks fi some old folks and Devon but which one have you chosen to sing tonight well isn't sure we do you think I should start sing the one you like the most because I'm gonna pray the one I like but oh no no I tried not to Marilyn remember she wants me say don't hum along because you know musicians when we play friend you player-coach it you stay there and you sing along without really knowing it you hung on the violates me oh did you all these things over and I have the habit myself and I must remember not handsome this is one of those songs - of Megan Oh to three Oh too late and if you don't know the song you're gonna sing don't sing it you're an opera singer you should sing opera melanin is a collateral and shooting why don't you sing an aria from what is this you you like our is wait should you hear what she is constable thank you when this ovation has died down what have you chosen to sing them I'd like to sing the economy from Rigoletto Oh God alright for the ones of you who are saying Maryland missing the caca may divert the Kagome I can owe me aria from the opera rigor mortis by by all means who wrote that man Giuseppe Verdi why tell me why yes why yes yeah that's the next present why yes it's your language I'm just trying to use it them why yes Giuseppe Verdi Joe Greene to you hands off me it should take long I'll be like on the open Oh oh you don't tuna what's the matter don't you know it Oh one law is mine sorry Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh in it Oh Oh we do have an agreement she doesn't touch my piano I don't lay hands on her quarter Oh you can set that twice I thought you had that fixed

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Keywords: Victor Borge (Musical Artist), Comedy (Theater Genre)

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Length: 45min 1sec (2701 seconds)

Published: Fri May 01 2015