Pianophilia

Liu Weh playing the piano with his feet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7CeoUZbW3Y

And totally unrelated to music, an associate of mine's
poetry machine, made from Meccano.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wuaSDzWhqQ

What do people think of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agyor0ksmqw

timgill wrote:What do people think of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agyor0ksmqw

Speaking purely personally here Tim, I found it awful, why do so many jazz musicians have to have orgasms on stage and act as if they are one stop away from alzheimers. Occasional snatches of I got rhythm, the rest a mish-mash of bits of other Gershwin pieces and a lot of high-speed fingers and not much else. I hated it but no doubt others will love it, mais...c'est la vie!
regards
Brian

HullandHellandHalifax wrote: Speaking purely personally here Tim, I found it awful, why do so many jazz musicians have to have orgasms on stage and act as if they are one stop away from alzheimers. Occasional snatches of I got rhythm, the rest a mish-mash of bits of other Gershwin pieces and a lot of high-speed fingers and not much else. I hated it but no doubt others will love it, mais...c'est la vie!
regards
Brian

I know exactly what you mean, there was a certain "substance" missing from the arrangement, and a can't stand watching pianists like Keith Jarrett writhe around at the piano, but I'm such a sucker for a pretty face so I really liked it (even with the orgasms). You have to admit though, she does have a pretty solid technique.

Arjuna wrote:

HullandHellandHalifax wrote: Speaking purely personally here Tim, I found it awful, why do so many jazz musicians have to have orgasms on stage and act as if they are one stop away from alzheimers. Occasional snatches of I got rhythm, the rest a mish-mash of bits of other Gershwin pieces and a lot of high-speed fingers and not much else. I hated it but no doubt others will love it, mais...c'est la vie!
regards
Brian

I know exactly what you mean, there was a certain "substance" missing from the arrangement, and a can't stand watching pianists like Keith Jarrett writhe around at the piano, but I'm such a sucker for a pretty face so I really liked it (even with the orgasms). You have to admit though, she does have a pretty solid technique.

you mean with the orgasms?
Brian

Maybe that's the appeal

The most eccentric reading of BEETHOVEN'S Hammerklavier Sonata you will ever encounter!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGyX5W9a_IE

alfor wrote:The most eccentric reading of BEETHOVEN'S Hammerklavier Sonata you will ever encounter!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGyX5W9a_IE

ECCENTRIC!! You mean BEST!!! don't you?
There are many good performers and perfomances of this sonata but in order to reach parts of this great work that others do not reach you need to be a composer. Don't forget that the concept of a performer is a relatively new thing, in the past all performers were composers or the reverse of that and I feel and I think recordings prove it that a composer can see further into the mind of another composer in a way that no performer ever can.
There are always going to be a few exceptions like Sofronitsky with Scriabin and Frederick Marvin with George Antheil where that understanding is almost uncanny, but generally speaking the majority of performers leave me dissatisfied and I think they they miss that element of knowing how a composer thinks which leads to my dissatisfaction.
In any case very many thanks for posting the link otherwise I would never have known of this revelatory performance. For once this sonata made sense to me.
Brian

Arjuna wrote:

HullandHellandHalifax wrote: Speaking purely personally here Tim, I found it awful, why do so many jazz musicians have to have orgasms on stage and act as if they are one stop away from alzheimers. Occasional snatches of I got rhythm, the rest a mish-mash of bits of other Gershwin pieces and a lot of high-speed fingers and not much else. I hated it but no doubt others will love it, mais...c'est la vie!
regards
Brian

I know exactly what you mean, there was a certain "substance" missing from the arrangement, and a can't stand watching pianists like Keith Jarrett writhe around at the piano, but I'm such a sucker for a pretty face so I really liked it (even with the orgasms). You have to admit though, she does have a pretty solid technique.

In relation to her technique - and whatever you might think of this piece of music - I think that her control and power of expression (and technique) are more evident in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuEJBKRW4M

Cheers

Tim

timgill wrote: In relation to her technique - and whatever you might think of this piece of music - I think that her control and power of expression (and technique) are more evident in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuEJBKRW4M

Cheers

Tim

You're right, her pianism is enviable. I didn't much like the music but that's just a question of taste I think.