
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 »

Yeah, this probably isn’t classical, but some things are too awkward not to share.
November 30, 2011 | Categories: duos, perhaps not classical | Tags: awkward poses, fun and games, it's a bear!, what is going on here? | 2 Comments »

“Oh, yeah?”
“I’m pretty sure.”

“Well, ready… aim… You’re fired.”
October 14, 2011 | Categories: winds | Tags: awkward poses, blowin' in the wind, contrived poses, fun and games, wind instruments | 2 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 »

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 »
…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 »

How high can a contrabass recorder go?
This quartet is about to find out.
August 12, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward scenarios, concert dress out of context, early music, fun and games, outdoors, recorders | 1 Comment »

We hear a lot lately about performing arts organizations in limbo. I don’t think this is what they’re all talking about.
July 24, 2011 | Categories: miscellaneous ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, compromising position, concert dress out of context, fun and games, living it up in the garden, outdoors | 1 Comment »