A musical rival for Macron and Putin
mainThis is the Swiss president, Alain Berset.
He plays a mean blues.
Présentation en musique du président de la Confédération suisse, Alain Berset. #InternationalesTV5 pic.twitter.com/Cta2fQ22vr
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Emmanuel Macron no longer lets himself be filmed playing in public. Vladimir Putin cannot resist.
Can one trust a politician who plays the piano?
beware of presidents playing piano or what ? 😉
Remember President Clinton on the sax? Didn’t he play it on Saturday Night Live?
Emperor Nero played the lyre while Rome was burning, Stalin restricted himself to intently listening to records of Mozart piano concertos. The mind boggles.
Putin the Great may not blow ’em out of the concert hall with his two-fingered piano playing, but here’s his real secret talent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4IjHz2yIo
After hearing this, we might want to consider a new name for the dear leader: *Rasp*Putin.
Helmut Schmidt, once Chancellor of W Germany:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0viCMJb2dCI
Harry Truman played the piano.
And Margaret sang (sort of). Any recordings of the Pres?
Ask Paul Hume…..
A bit of impromptu playing by Truman…
https://youtu.be/QRZu0RFkHkc
And Nixon plays his own piano concerto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCsGSMze_6Q
Truman & NIxon — tail end of an era when people made their own music in the home.
So did Nixon…
ABSOLUTELY WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He certainly beats the former Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, doing a rendition of a “With a little help from my friends” with Yo Yo Ma pretending to enjoy it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOt2Qp0H9G8
Prime minister Edward Heath conducted.