Meet the clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe.
She has posted a new image with the invitation: ‘ I’m thrilled to invite you to a special Q&A session where you can dive into everything you’ve ever wanted to know about me as an artist!’
Interesting approach.
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Serious Norman, this is all you can say about a Belgian artist?
Ms. Van Wauwe is lucky that the word “Belgian” was not included in the headline. Belgians and Poles get a very bad rap on here.
She is Belgian!
Oh, wauwe.
I will book a front row seat.
For myself and my carer
that won’t fly. You need to look down not up.
Methinks she knows exactly what she’s doing.
I don’t see anything at all risqué about this photograph. You don’t seem to have a problem with a pianist breast feeding her child on the stage of Carnegie Hall or a pianist dressed like a pole dancer!!
It’s all relative with classical music. This would be church attire for many pop stars. But classical is stuck in a Victorian concept of marketing and attire.
Women tease and flaunt themselves as sex objects far more than men do, and in many more subtle ways. Just beware of buying into it – as it’s there for ‘the gaze’ and to satisfy the narcissistic need of the teaser.
There’s something to be said for ‘the girl next door’ types; oh my word, yes.
A Q&A session is certainly an effective way of keeping everyone abreast of her news.
And there’s the deliberately-posed priapic image of the clarinet to be considered. What’s up girls; the boys have been put off, have they, by your #metoo?
Actions. Consequences.
Stand by for shocked outrage in 3, 2, 1….
Sometimes, to paraphrase Freud (or at least a quote attributed to Freud), a clarinet is just a clarinet.
Classical music has all but lost its dignity. Its degenerated into a dumpster fire.
The backstories of works like Lulu and Symphonie Fantastique would suggest were were always so. That’s the life.
Oh. A bit of cleavage. What. A. Tragedy.
Seriously, you can stop being scandalized by the human body and sex. It belies…. issues you may want to address.
As for classical music… when have we ever NOT been somewhat sexually open, as a community? Artists generally aren’t so repressed.
Critics, though? Since they’re *not* artists, I can’t say for sure.
What a pity your completely OTT #metoo advocates aren’t similarly tolerant about males, the human body and sex. It is they you need to be addressing, instead of hysterical ‘he touched me on my shoulder’ schtick.
I recall a dichotomy in my youth. Some of my more generously endowed female friends exposed cleavage because it would attract welcome attention, whereas others refused to do so, since the attention would be unwelcome.
These days, I’m told, it works the other way round. Cleavage is no longer so attention grabbing, so the brazen ones see little point in exposure and the more modest ones see little discomfort.
She had a good concert in Auckland, New Zealand with the Auckland Philharmonia recently and was also very active with the musical education element while she was here. It was all about the music.
Well, there’s always the viola players. Could they just show up, shut up, and PLAY?
Boys – and girls – beware!! Avoid the tease at all cost; you can be ruined.
Are you seriously shaming an artist for showing some cleavage?!? What is this, 1951? This post says so much about you, and absolutely nothing about the artist. Find something better to critique, geez.
Nothing else to do Norman! Should she dress like a non, little sexist!
Benny Goodman’s “heavage” didn’t make it on to his record covers, alas.
My first thought was horror-movie TV host Elvira, AKA Cassandra Peterson
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