Anyone for Classical Music Humor?

[melonkali]

Here are two of my favorite Igudesman and Joo (short) clips. If you like them, they have a channel on Youtube, a web site, and more including a short film "The Movie Critic".

Presenting: Alexsey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo

1. Rachmaninoff's Big Hands

2. Joo, All By Himself
(I love watching Igudesman on the violin -- how does one keep going when one's duet partner goes rogue, then has a meltdown on stage?)

[HarryPowell]

1. Thanks

Didn't know about these guys.

In the tradition of the great Victor Borge. ("Bach was very prolific.....He had lots of children.&quot

[dmallind]

2. I thought you were going to list classical music jokes

You know, like Andrea Bocelli and Richard Clayderman.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. Bocelli IS a joke to those of us who know better!

Me, I'm a violinist, so I like viola jokes.

Was engaged to two different viola players, didn't marry them.
First ex husband played piano/organ/cello.
Second ex husband played string bass.

Ya didn't know that orchestras are a real hotbed of romance, didja??

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

9. Well, who else would date orchestra members

Except other orchestra members.

Are you familiar with Garrison Keillor's Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra? I'm afraid it's not on YouTube.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. no, but it sounds hilarious.

Yes, orchestras are a real hotbed of romance. My trolling days are over, I'm settled down with a crazy but nice GUITAR PLAYER (OMGG!!!) who loves the Beatles. I've inflicted lots of classical music on him and dragged him to the opera. Exposed him to good 70s rock that he didn't know existed--like excellent obscure stuff The Kinks did.

Some of these guys were serious math/programming nerds. But then I'm weird--I like sweet, quiet engineers because they are practical and they can FIX things.

Somebody should do a sociological study of this. I saw a special on TV about Rosalind Franklin, who discovered the spiral structure of DNA, but Watson and Crick stole (Yes, STOLE her x-rays as spies) her x-rays and then took credit for her discoveries with a Nobel Prize. She died of cancer a few years later. Watson was jealous of her because she was dating the concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra. Yeah, I don't think Watson would have the sophistication to be in her league.

My analogous experience is: One of my old boyfriends who was a viola player wrote all the original programming at NASA for the Landsat satellites. He had a nice coffee table book with the red and green satellite pictures. I had no idea he'd done the original programming until he told me. That is a serious milestone in science.

[Alexande1304]

3. Thanks

Nice videos

[Vince843]

4. Check this one out

Peter Shickele and Itzhak Perlman:

[Mira]

5. Thanks. Fabulous. Wiping tears of joy. LMAO n/t

[Sohee]

7. I was really interested in this clip.

I saw his performance for the first time,
I think He is not only a good pianist but also a talented singer.

[reagan soft]

8. hello.

Nice music. Very classic.

[CBHagman]

11. A friend shared this clip a few months back...

...and I'm still addicted to it.

Rob Paravonian's "Pachelbel Rant."

[charlives]

12. Thanks!

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

13. A version of Pachelbel's Canon by the Piano Guys that belongs here