Video: How to play Paganini with your face

Video: How to play Paganini with your face

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norman lebrecht

January 08, 2014

You don’t want to watch this. Trust me, you really don’t.

If you absolutely must, click here.

paganini face

Don’t say you won’t warned.

Comments

  • He’s constantly ahead of the beat….

  • Donald Wright says:

    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. 🙂

  • Robert Kenchington says:

    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

  • thekingontheviolin says:

    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

  • Adrienne Sirken says:

    Marvelous acting… Who is he ?

  • Bill says:

    Some interesting bowings 😉

  • robcat2075 says:

    For people who feared that talents like Jerry Lewis’s might disappear from the Earth.

  • Roy Lisker says:

    He is, after all, part of a tradition including Victor Borge,, Harpo and Chico Marx and others. But he does i without intelligence.

  • Julien says:

    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 !).

  • Elly Winer says:

    Starker would have loved this.

  • This video reveals a performance of great genius.

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