The anonymous cellist of Westminster Bridge
mainThis beautiful portrait was taken yesterday by the mezzo-soprano Siobhain Gibson during the climate protests in London. Do we know who he is? What he’s playing?
Why is it always a cellist?
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He did it at the Notre Dame two days ago
Last moment fill in for YoYo?
He’s playing the cello, Norman.
“Why is it always a cellist?”
– Nobility of sound
– Vulnerability while playing (must play seated; immobilized, can’t easily duck/ dodge/ run away)
After the “global warming” meme as a method of brainwashing the credulous public and extracting more taxes was finally discredited, the controllers have changed their tack to “climate change” even though there are still no data to support any of their claims and the models purporting to predict future climate parameters are useless. More disquietingly, they have now resorted to indoctrinating schoolchildren to spread the propaganda.
But if cello playing will “save the planet”, who could possibly object? At least the cello won’t spontaneously combust like a Tesla electric automobile.
It appears you’ve not seen the movie: “The
Witches of Eastwick.”
Hear hear!
Are you a climate scientist? I ask, because you should clarify on what authority you so strenuously deny the work of those who are.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-47988337
“It may sound frightening, but the scientific evidence is that if we have not taken dramatic action within the next decade, we could face irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies.”
Er…there is lots of data. The most compelling, for me anyway, is the direct link between carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere and temperature (where we can construct record for millions of years). We have been pumping lots of CO-2 into the atmosphere and the temperature will go up.
Janos Starker put it quite succinctly: “The ‘cello can
only weep.”
Looks to me like he’s playing Casals’ “Song of the Birds” unaccompanied…
Isn’t he often outside Embankment tube after shows?