It’s a… It’s a… Look, we don’t know. We just found ourselves outside wearing mismatched shades of black looking for our instruments. Or the concert hall. Or anything that would tell us what’s going on.
March 11, 2013 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Leave A Comment »
Mine is bigger than yours.
(Seriously. The cellist looks more confident than anyone else. Apparently size does matter to this group.)
March 7, 2013 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: don't smile, put it all out there, serious business, string quartets | Leave A Comment »
Perhaps a bassoon mustache?
June 25, 2012 | Categories: winds | Tags: awkward poses, bassoon, fun and games, wind instruments | 3 Comments »
Tip your hat to this piano trio. Maybe their getup will help rope in new audiences.
April 23, 2012 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, bad ideas, fun and games, piano trios | 3 Comments »
One look at the design for this CD, and the color drained from his face.
(Thanks, @tjbassoon!)
April 20, 2012 | Categories: composers | Tags: awkward photoshopping, composers, don't smile, what is going on here? | Leave A Comment »
“That’s my wife? …Wow. I, uh, I’m going to sit here and look baffled. And slightly tickled.”
April 18, 2012 | Categories: duos | Tags: awkward couples, awkward poses, guitarists | 3 Comments »
The submitter asks: “Is she playing Debussy or Ravel, by any chance???”
Cue a whole-tone scale, or the music for the Neighborhood of Make-Believe…
March 28, 2012 | Categories: pianists | Tags: awkward photoshopping, pianists, what is going on here? | 1 Comment »
The email submitting this photograph read:
Sure, this guy has an impressive biography and discography…but where are his pants? Surely he can afford them. Is he cupping something more than just the bell of his clarinet?
March 12, 2012 | Categories: winds | Tags: awkward poses, clarinet, compromising position, self-exposure, what is going on here? | 2 Comments »
…wood?
But not too sexy for argyle. Or makeup. Or airbrushing.
March 7, 2012 | Categories: winds | Tags: clarinet, compromising position, wind instruments | 2 Comments »
Didn’t her mother teach her not to sit like that?
February 27, 2012 | Categories: soloists | Tags: compromising position, guitarists | 3 Comments »
The person who submitted this wrote:
“Aaron Jay Kernis’ face just says, ‘I’ve been left out of this joke but I’m smiling because everybody else is.’ Also: his sweater.”
Yep.
February 23, 2012 | Categories: composers | Tags: awkward cluenessness, awkward raucousness, awkward situations, calling the fashion police | 1 Comment »
At least the one knee that we can see. The other leg… well, who knows?
(via @wheresstephane, who asked: “Why would anyone allow this picture of them to be taken, and published?”)
February 17, 2012 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, compromising position, flutist, overly earnest, wind instruments | Leave A Comment »
Looks like they were comparing notes.
But not playing any. Because it’s hard to play when you’re draped over the keyboard, overcome with sadness.
February 13, 2012 | Categories: pianists | Tags: don't smile, harpsichordists, overly earnest, pianists, serious business | 1 Comment »
WANTED: Clarity.
And maybe a little color balance.
February 8, 2012 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward environment, string quartet | 2 Comments »
Here’s a key solution to the perpetual problem of how to identify pianists without pinning them inside the piano.
(previous solution)
January 9, 2012 | Categories: pianists | Tags: awkward poses, awkward props, outdoors, pianists | Leave A Comment »
Finally, Awkward Classical Music Photos meets Awkward Family Photos.
You know, even though they’re all stuck under the piano, they look happy. Except for the one who’s actually in focus.
January 4, 2012 | Categories: pianists | Tags: awkward poses, compromising position, pianists, what is going on here? | 1 Comment »
The reader who submitted this admitted to being one of the people in the photo. The picture was taken for a flyer for an “alternative opera-cabaret-burlesque show.” And it wasn’t Photoshopped.
December 19, 2011 | Categories: opera, perhaps not classical | Tags: awkward opera photo shoots, awkward poses, compromising position, contrived poses, what is going on here? | Leave A Comment »
Just imagine the gossip they’re exchanging so intensely.
December 17, 2011 | Categories: duos | Tags: awkward poses, close talkers, serious business, wind instruments | 2 Comments »
One day we’re going to run out of captions, because people keep doing the same awkward things. “Hey! More musicians acting formal except for the fact that they’re hiding their faces behind their instruments!”
December 2, 2011 | Categories: miscellaneous ensembles | Leave A Comment »
It’s a… It’s a… Look, we don’t know. We just found ourselves outside wearing mismatched shades of black looking for our instruments. Or the concert hall. Or anything that would tell us what’s going on.
