This? This is nothing. Just wait ’til she balances the bow on top of the scroll.
March 5, 2013 | Categories: soloists | Tags: balancing act, viola | Leave A Comment »
He didn’t know which pose looked best, so he chose all of them.
June 18, 2012 | Categories: soloists | Tags: brass, trombonists | 3 Comments »
Didn’t her mother teach her not to sit like that?
February 27, 2012 | Categories: soloists | Tags: compromising position, guitarists | 3 Comments »
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 »
Dear sir:
I regret to inform you that this is not the Harlem Globetrotters.
The judges were, however, impressed with your ability to balance random objects on your fingertip.
November 4, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, balancing act, contrived poses, french horn, horn | 1 Comment »
I didn’t know you played the horn!
Or wore skinny jeans!
October 31, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, awkward props, contrived poses, horn, jump up and get down, umbrella | 9 Comments »
Keep reaching. Your hands are almost there.
UPDATE
The subject of the photos has written in to say:
Could you please credit me, the performer, Rachel Cama (and yes, I’m also a yoga teacher).
And also, can you credit the photographer:
Becky Oehlers
Many thanks…it was a very enjoyable photoshoot and not awkward, for me, at all.
October 26, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, cellist, cello, compromising position, contortionist, hide your face, what is going on here?, yoga | 11 Comments »
“Thankfully the violinist survived the tragic steamroller accident to play another day,” said the reader who submitted this.
But seriously, where did her legs go? Is she a mermaid?
September 21, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, mermaids, violinist | 1 Comment »
And just look what those biceps can do.
Hangin’ tough.
September 20, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: cellist, contrived poses, muscle man | 6 Comments »
If looks could kill, then it was definitely Colonel Mustard in the Ballroom with the, er, flute.
September 19, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: don't smile, flutist, serious business | 2 Comments »
My, my. He has so many instruments, and all of them are, uhh, standing at attention.
September 12, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, clarinet, don't smile, overly earnest, serious business, wind instruments | Leave A Comment »
…and your cello even closer.
August 28, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, cello | 5 Comments »
…mp.
Thanks to @jaygabler for inspiring today’s post with this tweet:
There are few things more awkward than promo photos of classical ensembles jumping into the air to look “vibrant” and “exciting.”
Watch out: this may become a series.
August 24, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: cellist, concert dress out of context, fun and games, jump up and get down, water feature | Leave A Comment »
Rachmaninoff looks like he was having a really bad case of the Mondays.
August 22, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: composers, don't smile, i'm a pianist look at my hands!, miserere, pianists, rachmaninoff | Leave A Comment »
Why so glum? Looks like everything’s set up for a party in the back.
Definitely no party here, though. Except maybe a pity party.
August 6, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: early music, serious business, so sad, vacant stare | 3 Comments »
We didn’t think it would happen, but here’s a photo of a male musician lying on the floor.
Sorry for the small photo.
This introduces a whole new category, in the words of the (female) harpist who sent this in: “Male harpists who have to proclaim their masculinity by knocking their harps over.”
Here’s another.
And another.
Very manly.
August 5, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, contrived poses, harpists, serious business | 2 Comments »
What is it about lying down?
On the floor.
In bed.
Under the boardwalk.
Legs up the wall.
Oh, and if anyone see any pictures of *male* performers lying on the floor, send them in.
August 4, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, compromising position, contrived poses, flutists, guitarists, violinists | 3 Comments »
If she crouches over that disco ball long enough, will it hatch?
August 3, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, awkward props, disco balls, flutists, let there be light | 1 Comment »
The startled look on his face. The undone bowtie. And the wedding ring.
What?
July 30, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, awkwardly disheveled, what is going on here? | 4 Comments »
Unless you think that more is more. More patterns, more colors, more details.
July 27, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, clashing, clucker%uck, too much going on | 4 Comments »
