See what’s wrong with the cover image of the new issue of the self-styled Bibleof string playing?
Is there no-one at the magazine who can tell right from left?
This is Julian in real-time:
Red faces all round at The Strad.
The Mozart concerto due to be played three…
The Manhattan School of Music this morning quietly…
The tenor Ian Bostridge shocked Symphony Hall Birmingham…
The orchestra’s president Gary Ginstling has engaged Katya…
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Oof. Reversal aside, he also looks about 20 years younger in the Strad photo.
I recall the early James Levine recording of Verdi’s “Giovanna D’Arco,” where in the LP program booklet, a large photograph of the musical forces is reversed.
Yeah, that’s pretty bad….
I’m still not going to cancel my subscription, though.
As soon as I received my copy about two weeks ago I contacted The Strad. I was quite amazed that an International magazine such as The Strad could not have had this checked out. I did ask if Julian had suddenly become left handed!! Maybe there should have been a prize for the first reader to spot this!!!
they employ staff with no knowledge
of music.
nothing new
But they’re pretty..
Well, he is a bit of a Leftie.
Would be easier to manage the instrument if Julian chose the
double-bass …
I’m surprised to learn there is still a print edition for such an oversight to be immortalized on.
I’m going to guess that the layout of the magazine has been outsourced to firm staffed from a re-education camp in another land.
More likely education camps in their own land called comprehensive schools.
What a shameful, snobbish comment
The right-left reversal of Strad is Darts.
Perhaps that’s what they ought to try their hand at.
Plenty of string-players are told by their teachers to practice with a mirror. When they look, what do you think they see? Not like this is something no one has ever seen before, and it isn’t difficult to reverse the image again if you really want to see it without the reversal.
I am going to say that it is some intentional PR tactic to get more media exposure, something that they are achieving.
April joke? Or a photograph taken of Julian’s mirror image. Or done on purpose to wake people up and/or elicit the kind of comments on display here. Memorable cover, in any case.
Isaac Stern got the same treatment about 30 years ago, as you can see here:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174262550795?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338722076&toolid=10001
Oops…
Ed.
One of the big nightmares of graphic design, at least in those less computerised days, was that the printer would flip the trannie – ie, view the transparency from the wrong side and print it that way. Writing “view from this side” was essential. But the golden rule of printers was always: If something can go wrong, it will. If something can’t go wrong, it still will.
I don’t see what is so exciting about this. No doubt all of you remember the right-handed horns introduced by the Berlin Philharmonic horns a couple of years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ61bxBYIOA
So the idiots who ran the record companies are now running The Strad!
After all these years, I’ve realized I’ve been looking at backwards pictures of Paul McCartney.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, which bow arm is the best of all?
Facebook is one of the worst culprits when it comes to printing musicians in reverse. Itzaak Perlman was published only about a month ago playing as if he were ‘corrie fisted’. And loads of amateurs upload their own pictures in reverse.
It seems to be an infectious problem in the UK: BBC Music Magazine inverted an Isaac Stern photo on page 96 of its February 2021 issue.
Now, I’m waiting for a picture of Sir Donald Runnicles holding a baton in his right hand!
My first thought was, “Flippin’ heck… they got that wrong.”
He apparently quotes the review I gave him in The Strad, and spits when my name is mentioned. My critique in the Evening Standard caused him to ring the paper and complain. Result! If you make a named Stradivarius sound as if it had just come off a Chinese production line, you deserve all you get.
I can’t wait to see the cover of the next issue showing a picture of an oboist blowing at the wrong end.
I can’t wait to see the cover of the next issue with a picture of an oboist blowing at the other end.