Andre Rieu teaches 2,000 children how to save lives
OrchestrasThe violinist and waltzmaster has made it his mission to teach Dutch children how to perform CPR resuscitation. He once saved a life himself and wants to pass on the skills.
The music he used is “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees along with “All I Want For Christmas is You”.
Watch here.
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Not a bad insurance considering his potential to bore people to death.
Your opinion he makes millions of people happy who go to enjoy his amazing concerts l expect that is more than you do in your life time just criticise the goodness in others
Hi I go to his concerts and enjoy his music.if Andre uses music to help young people learn CPR then he is helping to potentially save thousands of lives each year. Yes I know how to do cpr and yes I have saved 2 lives.how many lives have been lost through your ignorance????
There are actually people almost dying from suddenly having to listen to Mr Rieu himself.
Pity you aren’t one then !!!!!!
Stupid comments – says more about you than it does about him or his utter professionalism.
Love this guy!
He’s very astute. Mr Rieu has found a niche market and makes good use of it. OK in the greater scheme of things it’s basically crap but it keeps a lot of players and technicians in employment and makes a lot of people happy. What’s wrong with that?
If he’s also going to spread the knowledge of CPR far and wide then that’s wonderful.
It is not crap! It’s just that you don’t like it, but that does not make it crap! it just makes you sound as if you are trying to be superior. Others love it, and they are not uneducated or idiots, or inferior to your opinion.
I’m not trying to be superior or anything else. I have hugely varied tastes in music both as a professional player and as a listener. Rieu’s musicians are good. The costumes, sets and orchestra layout are frankly absurd. They play well enough but they’re not the LSO.
BUT if you read my post carefully you’ll see that I have a great deal of time for the man and a trawl through this site’s archives will show that I’ve regularly stood up for him for the great work he does. I just happen not to enjoy it and think his shows are the equivalent of 6 spoons of sugar in your coffee! If others enjoy it I’m more than happy with that.
Many people do no like country music.
Some singers are good like waylon jennings.. . But it is not crap
Time to dump on Andrew Rieu in 3, 2,1…..
He’s rich and has popularized classical music. Well done!
No, he’s popularised a very small range of styles often in rather cheesy arrangements. He is a great bloke but will have done nothing to tempt people into a regular concert venue where they would find
“ nice” music like Andre’s and plenty of other stuff which would potentially traumatise them if they were expecting soupy waltzes and general light pieces which wouldn’t frighten the horses.
Once again, nothing wrong with him or his music if that’s what you like but you could be missing out on a wonderful collection of music which could open new doors for you.
Hi Dragonetti, I played an instrument well for about 10 years and know a great deal about classical music and jazz. I so not find AR’s popularizations “cheesy” at all, or “soupy”. You sound like a snob.
Dragonetti, You seem to have forgotten you called what he did is “it’s basically crap.” Remember that?
Mr Ron, you don’t belong here. Trolls not welcome.
I’ve been more than fair and measured in my criticism ranging from ( mostly) sticking up for Mr Rieu to criticism of his style of presentation. I certainly wouldn’t be the only one to call it crap. Many would use stronger language I think!
Name calling to those who you disagree with is not good. Although I insist on maintaining anonymity after very unpleasant experience with trolls elsewhere you’ll have to take it from me that (a) I’m no snob and (b) although finally slowing down, I have over 50 years of high end performing and teaching experience. I know skilfully presented crap when I see it.
It also goes without saying that I’m delighted that people enjoy his work.
Dragonetti, so I’m a troll for using your own words? It seems you are the troll. I am not ‘name calling,’ but using what you yourself stupidly said.
This I can understand: “After very unpleasant experience with trolls elsewhere… .” Let me guess, you called them trolls and accused them of name calling.
The comments like ‘basically crap’, ‘bore people to death’ ‘almost dying from having to listen’ ‘frankly absurd’ sent me to YouTube to find out how bad it really is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd16sNr9T2Q&t=4s
How I pity those hundreds of uneducated idiots being conned into enjoying Shostakovich’s 2nd waltz! How I congratulate myself on my superior tastes!
Look, I’m no fan of Rieu (that’s an understatement), and I get the sarcasm. But this strikes me as a worthwhile project, so kudos to him.
Andre Rieu is putting real musicians playing real musical instruments in front of large and varied audiences. To me that can only be a good thing and it has relatively little to do with the music being performed. I know many people of my generation who took up violin because in their youth their parents or grandparents watched the Lawrence Welk TV show (and likely did NOT watch the Leonard Bernstein broadcasts) every single week of the year and Welk always featured his violin section. Dick Kesner “and his Stradivarius violin,” Joe Livoti, Jimmy Getzoff and “Alladin” were among them. Almost nothing they played was classical music but the instrument was being played, and played reasonably well as those were all trained musicians. I can tell you that back then if someone asked “why did you take up the violin?” you were likely to hear that the Lawrence Welk violinists got the credit. A few years earlier George Liberace on his brother’s TV show, and Florian ZaBach (a virtuoso who did play a few classical or semi-classical pieces) on his own show did much the same for the violin.
There was live music on TV back then. It has largely disappeared now. For that reason I will not sneer at Rieu and his concerts.