Worst Dressed Performer?
Wed, May 8 2013, 4:44PM
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That's right, Jane ! Another conductor who favours the Chinese visuals is Christoph Eschenbach. With his black oriental-looking outfit and his bald head, he always seems to come straight to the podium after a praying session with the Dalai Lama...
Wed, May 8 2013, 4:56PM
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Quite right, ganymede. But Grimaud is so pretty she manages to get away with it fine.
Wed, May 8 2013, 5:00PM
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Yes, Eschenbach! I think the mystical/spiritual connotations of the outfit must be deliberate. The holy leader, eyes blazing with transcendent insight, leads the exodus to enlightenment........
Even the women are at it:
Wed, May 8 2013, 5:11PM
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What's next? Druidical robes?
Wed, May 8 2013, 9:33PM
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The ageing hitman reflects on his latest execution.......
A still of Helen Mirren from the forthcoming film, "Oscar Wilde, the Final Years."
Wed, May 8 2013, 10:30PM
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J.E.G. also likes the Chinese look.
Wed, May 8 2013, 11:15PM
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Whereas the renowned Chinese conductor Muhai Tang likes to wear:
Wed, May 8 2013, 11:18PM
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And Carl the Bear likes this:
It's all very perplexing.......
Thu, May 9 2013, 2:50AM
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I don't know if it's "perplexing" or a sort of what globalisation may mean and cause. In Asia, almost all conductors I have seen in various concerts opt for the western outfits, while, in the West, apparently, the guys (and dolls) have started feeling the fatigue of the good old, very formal, western fashion. In a way, it's refreshing, interesting and it does not always dictates bad taste. It indicates, however, the mood and possibly the character of the performer.
Parla
Sun, May 12 2013, 7:41PM
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Bruno Walter and Toscanini appear in photographs wearing Dr No style jackets too, so maybe it is not just a recent trend. But surely this style is preferable to when the conductor chooses to go topless:
Ted
Sun, May 12 2013, 7:58PM
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Bruno Walter and Toscanini appear in photographs wearing Dr No style jackets too, so maybe it is not just a recent trend. But surely this style is preferable to when the conductor chooses to go topless:
If you've got your top off already, why not going all the way?
Sun, May 12 2013, 9:10PM
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Rattle goes Dr No......
Mon, May 13 2013, 4:05AM
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I have a sense, Jane, that your great "interest" (to put it as neutrally as pollible) in fashion cannot be accidental. You should be in the profession, in one or the other way. Are you a sort of seamstress or a designer, perhaps? Possibly from Southern England?
Parla
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...Well, that's another way to "translate" melancholy, Jane.
Barenboim is a sort of maverick vis a vis the more conservative ones...that's all.
Parla