Hollywood stars and their classical pals
mainMeloclassic have come up with this wonderful picture of James Dean…. with the austere German pianist Walter Gieseking. The date is uncertain, either 1951 or 1954.
So, who else have we got?
2 Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Chaplin
3 Marilyn Monroe & Irving Berlin
4 Mickey Mouse and Stokowski
5…. add your own
Nancy Kovack and Zubin Mehta
Mia Farrow and Andre Previn
and more recently…
Chiara Muti and David Fray
Clara Haskil and Charlie Chaplin
Leopold Stokowski and Greta Garbo
Arthur Rubinstein and Bette Davis (under copyright, so link only)
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/c84t6gbk/?brand=oac4
I have one with Zsa Zsa Gabor. During one of our visits at her home, she introduced me to a Hungarian lady who took care of her in Hungary when the Gabors were quite young. This was in 1988. The lady was a piano pupil of Ernst von Dohnanyi and knew her music.
Pinchas Zukerman and Tuesday Weld.
The term “classical” has always been difficult to define, but including Irving Berlin in that category stretches it to nearly meaningless extreme.
1988. Zsa Zsa with a young crazy pianist-me-perhaps one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the planet.
https://docupub.com/docs/8b889059-437d-4bf4-b47f-45b672258a0e/Zsa%20Zsa%20and%20Jeffrey%201988.pdf
George Gershwin and any number of stars from his era.
Rachmaninoff, Horowitz and…Walt Disney
http://beccamusic.blogspot.jp/2013/12/when-rachmaninov-met-walt-disney.html
From 2015…
Renee Fleming, Meryl Streep and Christine Baranski (I don’t know where the photo is but I’ve seen it)…..
Oh.. and Fleming with Patrick Stewart
There must be other current ones with other classical musicians. I’m sure Domingo, especially….
Stravinsky and Charlie Chaplin.
Stravinsky and Edward G. Robins.
No pic, but interesting anecdote about Groucho Marx and the time that he lured Segovia to his house to play guitar duets. http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/The-Surprisingly-Serious-Tale.aspx
fascinating!
Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil.
Probably no picture, but Hector Berlioz & Harriet Smithson