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Piano Board => Repertoire => Topic started by: john11inc on March 01, 2010, 08:12:10 PM

Title: Is Hamelin adding an orchestra to Gershwin's Concerto?!?
Post by: john11inc on March 01, 2010, 08:12:10 PM

I have a video here:

As you can clearly see, "pianist" Marc-Andre Hamelin is trying to sneak in an orchestra to the Gershwin Piano Concerto in F, probably to hide his lack of technique.  This image shows exactly where it is:

(https://img532.imageshack.us/img532/6060/19961736.jpg)




There is a large, black, wooden box-thing that Hamelin is sitting in front of.  Now, I have no idea what that thing is or how it's used, but I'm pretty sure it's an orchestra.

Title: Re: Is Hamelin adding an orchestra to Gershwin's Concerto?!?
Post by: thalbergmad on March 01, 2010, 08:54:36 PM

Taking things a little far, but extremely amusing.

I was just constructing something along the lines of an extra cannon in the 1812 overture.

Thal

Title: Re: Is Hamelin adding an orchestra to Gershwin's Concerto?!?
Post by: orangesodaking on March 02, 2010, 06:01:35 PM

I didn't get it upon first read, but now I'm laughing.  :D

Title: Re: Is Hamelin adding an orchestra to Gershwin's Concerto?!?
Post by: furtwaengler on March 02, 2010, 10:09:49 PM

My head hurts.

Title: Re: Is Hamelin adding an orchestra to Gershwin's Concerto?!?
Post by: pianowolfi on March 02, 2010, 10:24:02 PM

Perhaps it's this famous "black box" that is so often missed after a plane crash?? You should call the police!! maybe you'll get a reward.

Title: Re: Is Hamelin adding an orchestra to Gershwin's Concerto?!?
Post by: furtwaengler on March 02, 2010, 10:27:44 PM

I heard Hamelin use an orchestra for Albeniz's Iberia, and I think he was even adding octaves to the orchestra ::) What a chump. 

Title: Re: Is Hamelin adding an orchestra to Gershwin's Concerto?!?
Post by: pianowolfi on March 02, 2010, 10:36:33 PM

Quote from: furtwaengler on March 02, 2010, 10:27:44 PM

I heard Hamelin use an orchestra for Albeniz's Iberia, and I think he was even adding octaves to the orchestra ::) What a chump. 

Omg, everybody nowadays knows that octaves are among the protected species  ::)