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 »
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 »
WANTED: Clarity.
And maybe a little color balance.
February 8, 2012 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward environment, string quartet | 2 Comments »
… rogue string player at a horn conference?
November 8, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, french horn, horn | Leave A Comment »
As if recorders aren’t awkward enough without helmet hair.
October 28, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles, winds | Tags: awkward poses, calling the fashion police, outdoors, recorders, wind instruments | 4 Comments »
I really don’t want to know what that squatting violinist is up to.
But at least, in the end, they reach the golf cart on the right-hand side of the street.
September 28, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, compromising position, concert dress out of context, contrived poses, fun and games, outdoors, string quintet | Leave A Comment »
That’s not quite what they meant by “col legno”…
September 23, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, fun and games, string quartets, what is going on here? | Leave A Comment »
Don’t fall off the wall with the force of the blast, folks.
September 9, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, fun and games, outdoors | 1 Comment »
Another one in the category of “let’s carefully lay out all our instruments on the floor” while the musicians sit back. In what looks like an empty airport lounge.
September 7, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: contrived poses, lay down your arms, string quartets, take a seat | 2 Comments »
And toast to…. I don’t know what.
August 29, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, brass quintet, outdoors, water feature | Leave A Comment »
If not a feather, perhaps was it an earthquake that knocked them over? A hurricane? Tornado?
And what are we supposed to think of that leg wrap-around? Gentlemen, care to explain?
August 26, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, compromising position, contrived poses, string quartets, what is going on here? | 4 Comments »
It’s like a new kind of jack-in-the-box: a quartet popping out from behind a double bass.
August 25, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, clucker%uck, fun and games, string ensembles | 1 Comment »
We’ve had Awkward Piano Trio Day. We’ve had Blowin’ in the Wind Day. We’ve had Column-Buyin’. And more.
But none of these trios had figured out the Eternal Piano Problem: how to include the pianist’s instrument in a photo shoot without draping everyone awkwardly around the piano itself.
Fear not. There is a solution.
A tiny, toy solution.
August 23, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, awkward props, contrived poses, piano trios | 2 Comments »
Yeah, these aren’t strictly classical albums. But we couldn’t resist.
These puns weigh heavily upon us.
August 21, 2011 | Categories: album covers, chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward photo shoots, awkward poses, living it up in the garden, matching outfits, outdoors, punny, why? | Leave A Comment »
The paranoid photographer says, “Stop looking at me.” One guy laughs and looks away. “Seriously, do not look at me.” Another one looks away. “I mean it.” They look serious and turn their eyes away.
(Thanks to Saporman99 for sending this in.)
August 19, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: outdoors, awkward poses, vacant stare, what are we looking at?, vocal ensembles | Leave A Comment »
He got tired of feeling like a mere prop to lovely women in red dresses.
They wouldn’t even look at him.
So he took matters into his own arms.
August 18, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, compromising position, contrived poses, lame backgrounds, piano trios | 1 Comment »
Also: color balance, anyone? That poor horn player looks a little jaundiced.
August 15, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward photoshopping, awkward poses, contrived poses, wind quintet | 3 Comments »
A brave musician sent in some awkward outtakes from her quartet’s photo shoot.
I could swear there were four pe – hey, dude behind the tree, your viola is showing.
August 14, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward outtakes, awkward poses, outdoors, self-exposure | 2 Comments »
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.
