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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Sometimes, we’re just left without words.
Two different people have sent this one in.
August 13, 2011 | Categories: album covers | Tags: awkward poses, awkward props, calling the fashion police, compromising position, contrived poses, what is going on here? | 5 Comments »
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 »
Or is that what those two guys are toasting to?
Also, I want to see a fountain spraying out of the saxophone.
Thank to @leahkardos for this photo.
July 18, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: contrived poses, outdoors, overly earnest, water feature, what is going on here? | 2 Comments »
Points for playfulness, demerits for incoherence. What exactly is the bass clarinetist, particular, doing?
July 2, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, clarinet quartet, what is going on here? | 2 Comments »
