80sFan 108 Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 I like the two of JW with Luciano Pavarotti & Jessye Norman https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/historic-photos-classical-composers-doing-normal-things/ Fabulin and Falstaft 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,506 Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Local copies: Spoiler 1999 "John Williams dropping by to visit Luciano Pavarotti in his dressing room at the Grammy Awards". 2012 "Opera legend Jessye Norman and film maestro John Williams share a moment". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,462 Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 There is a whole site devoted to this (Prokofiev walking his dog and stuff like that, Stravinsky doing normal things in LA), but I can't remember what it was called. I love the one with Franz Waxman on a boat, I think outside New York. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,023 Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 On 7/12/2021 at 4:18 PM, Fabulin said: 1999 "John Williams dropping by to visit Luciano Pavarotti in his dressing room at the Grammy Awards". Pavarotti: If I hold my hand upwards and you hold your hand horizontally, it will look like we're about to shake hands. Are you game? JW: Yes, Giorgio. Strauss: Scheisse, I definitely should have removed that butt plug. Prokofiev: Who farted? ... JW: Jessye, I just love sucking on your eyeballs. Jessye: And I love to... MWAHAHA! Dedicated to @Sweeping Strings. Sweeping Strings and crlbrg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,272 Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Anybody remember Blume's caption contests? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,632 Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 It is nice to see how much these performers love him. No one's perfect, but he exudes class like no other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,903 Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 Very nice pictures but some captions are a bit inaccurate. The 1910 picture showing Mahler enjoying family time includes his two daughters Anna and Maria but Maria died in 1907 and Mahler would have been quite sickly in 1910 just months from his own death from heart failure. The picture is probably from 1906 placing it just before he would work on his Symphony No. 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,344 Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 On 7/12/2021 at 8:09 PM, Jurassic Shark said: Pavarotti: If I hold my hand upwards and you hold your hand horizontally, it will look like we're about to shake hands. Are you game? JW: Yes, Giorgio. Strauss: Scheisse, I definitely should have removed that butt plug. Prokofiev: Who farted? ... JW: Jessye, I just love sucking on your eyeballs. Jessye: And I love to... MWAHAHA! Dedicated to @Sweeping Strings. Umm ... thanks? Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,172 Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 22 hours ago, karelm said: Very nice pictures but some captions ar a bit inaccurate. The 1910 picture showing Mahler enjoying family time includes his two daughters Anna and Maria but Maria died in 1907 Or if the captions are accurate, the title isn't, because in that case Mahler isn't doing "incredibly normal" things in that photo… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,023 Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 I'd say enjoying time with your family is incredibly normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,632 Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 I used to hang out with Pavarotti all the time--turns out we both liked Dily Bars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,172 Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 3 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: I'd say enjoying time with your family is incredibly normal. Sure, but enjoying time with your dead family…? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,023 Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 Now you're being picky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,632 Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 3 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said: Sure, but enjoying time with your dead family…? A threat? Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,023 Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 Where are the mods when you need them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,279 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Those are great, even if the ordinariness of them is variable (I mean, who hasn't dropped into the Grammys...?!). Of the many downsides to social media and the ease of taking photos, it's much less of a thrill seeing pictures of contemporary composers. The daily updates on John Powell's (admittedly adorable) dog don't have quite the magic of gaining a tiny insight into the life of people of such historic importance. Even retrospectively, I'm not sure people in 100 years will get quite the same thrill seeing the picture of (for example) Sally Beamish in a hammock as the one of Shostakovich watching the footie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,023 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 If they'd been topless, I know which one I'd been the most thrilled of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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