Für Elise: the honky-tonk version
Why BeethovenThis is Chopin Competition winner Bruce Liu cutting loose.
It’s one helluvan encore.
This version’s a bit straighter.
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Is it honky-tonk though?
Gotta do what you gotta do to stand out, but there’s plenty of fingerbusting tuneful encore pieces in the repertoire.
The next thing, everyone will be comparing him to Yuga Wang…without the miniskirt….
Improvisation, 21st Century style. Liszt might be rolling over in his grave with envy.
Beethoven, maybe, twitching the bones of his feet in uncontrolable “rage over a lost melody…”
At least you should try to spell the name correctly. It’s Yuja, not “Yuga.”
Whatever you think of Yuja and her miniskirt, Bruce doesn’t need any props to look and sound great.
Oh come on… it was fun. Anything wrong with that? Whatever you think of his playing, he has done plenty of serious work on the traditional repertory.
For another bit of fun starting with Beethoven (of sorts): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTkJK_adPwo
He is unique.
Why would anyone play this still-born abomination?
How to lose credibility in 4 minutes 16 seconds (if anyone can stand it for that long).
It’s not Honky-Tonk. The first is stride-piano style, as it might have been played by Fats Walle, James P. Johnson or others of that school. The second version is much like George Gershwin might have imagined it.