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.

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?”)

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.

WANTED: Clarity.

And maybe a little color balance.

Here’s a key solution to the perpetual problem of how to identify pianists without pinning them inside the piano.

(previous solution)

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.

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.