Is Hamelin adding an orchestra to Gershwin's Concerto?!?

[john11inc]

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:






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.

[thalbergmad]

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

[orangesodaking]

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

[furtwaengler]

My head hurts.

[pianowolfi]

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.

[furtwaengler]

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

[pianowolfi]

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