Salut Salon – Competitive Foursome
An evening pause: This makes a great bookend to yesterday’s evening pause. And yes, they are having as much fun playing as the musicians yesterday.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
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What fun and talent.
I chuckled all the way through.
I’d seen another piece by these four before, this one is better. I bet that’s got to be fun to see live.
A professional upright bass player I know, a major symphony player, film studio musician, and paid “ringer” for community orchestras short of proficient bassists, once tied a rubber tarantula to the end of his bow and dangled it over the shoulder of the lady cellist (and longtime friend) seated in front of him.
During a concert.
The stuffy folks at classical music events are almost exclusively restricted to the audience.
They would be shocked beyond belief if they were ever flies on the wall at a party of all classical musicians!!!!
Add: I meant also to note that it’s fun to see that the classical music fans on BTB seem to be a lot like the musicians themselves!! On the other hand, about half of any given classical audience, radio or live, are of the snooty “upper crust” variety. There is a near total lack of corresponding types among the musicians …!