Video: How to play Paganini with your face
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Don’t say you won’t warned.
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The only thing more alarming than the video was the text that accompanied it: “The man in this video has found a way to play a song [sic] from one of Paganini’s concerts [sic].” I’m feeling slightly nauseous. 🙂
No worse than the facial contortions of most opera singers or certain instrumentalists!
If there’s time for someone to make this kind of video, find others to watch it and comment on it, then I think we all might have to much time on our hands
He has an extraordinary talent. His interpretation is so similar to my own as to be uncanny. I am shocked that people misperceive hist intent and ability.
Music is an expression using symbols. His facial expressions are another version of manifesting those same symbols. He does it marvellously well.
I do not find the video alarming or nauseating. I do not need a warning against it. It needs to be recognised as an artistic endeavour carried out with mastery, beauty and aplomb. I recently met Ida Haendel who commented to me on the plethora of mediocrities having so called success in the media. She said:
“Notoriety can be bought; talent is not for sale!”
Please acknowledge this guy’s talent without envy or disparagement
Damn – TOO! Sorry.
Marvelous acting… Who is he ?
Some interesting bowings 😉
For people who feared that talents like Jerry Lewis’s might disappear from the Earth.
He is, after all, part of a tradition including Victor Borge,, Harpo and Chico Marx and others. But he does i without intelligence.
His name is Nicola-Frank Vachon. He is an actor and photograph from Quebec. It seems to be an old video (4-5 years).
You can read this in Wikipedia (french) : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola-Frank_Vachon
And he has a personal website : http://www.nfvstudio.com/nfvstudio/START.html
I am a musician and I really appreciate his talent and his sensibilty. He feels music better than a lot of professional musicians.
Thank you Norman, and please don’t apologize, I’m sure you love it (a lot !).
Merci, Julien.
Starker would have loved this.
This video reveals a performance of great genius.