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Title: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: snyprrr on September 03, 2014, 01:09:05 PM
What's you're favourite Composer 'look'?  I like light slacks, white shirt with rolled up sleeves, like The Professor on 'Gilligan's Island'! Ready for business! And you?

As for outrageous? Try to find the pic of Roslavets! ouch!
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: EigenUser on September 03, 2014, 03:48:22 PM
Everyone seems to ignore the cool threads, including this one...

Hard to beat Ligeti in this category. This picture is framed in my music room, along with records of Bartok, Reich, and Gershwin.
(http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/imgs/s300x300/4776443.jpg)

(http://www.classical.net/music/images/composer/s/shostakovich3.jpg)

And of course,
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Erik_Satie_-_BNF1-cropped.jpeg)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: mn dave on September 03, 2014, 04:21:17 PM
(http://medias.medici.tv/artist/maurice-ravel_jpg_240x240_crop_upscale_q95.jpg)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Drasko on September 03, 2014, 04:37:09 PM
(http://s2.postimg.org/sn789eocp/640px_Puccini7.jpg)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: mn dave on September 03, 2014, 04:41:39 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Edgard_Varese.gif)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/GiorcesRossini1.jpg)
(http://www.nndb.com/people/532/000031439/bernstein-mit-zigaret.jpg)
(http://italianstudies.nd.edu/assets/59115/franz_liszt.jpg)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Florestan on September 04, 2014, 12:40:41 AM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Sergei_Rachmaninoff_LOC_33968.jpg)
(http://heroku-enescu-production.s3.amazonaws.com/2014/08/18/23/42/49/963/George_Enescu_arhiva.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Bart%C3%B3k_B%C3%A9la_1927.jpg)
(http://www.wagnerheim.com/photos/Richard_Wagner2.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/869/MI0002869234.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

But the real hero is this man:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Ilya_Repin_-_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%9C.%D0%9F.%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Rinaldo on September 04, 2014, 05:27:41 AM
Quote from: Florestan on September 04, 2014, 12:40:41 AM
But the real hero is this man:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Ilya_Repin_-_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%9C.%D0%9F.%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)

There's a Czech music journalist who could make a living as a Repin look-alike:

(http://i58.tinypic.com/2vs3o6p.jpg)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Florestan on September 04, 2014, 05:29:42 AM
Quote from: Rinaldo on September 04, 2014, 05:27:41 AM
There's a Czech music journalist who could make a living as a Repin look-alike:


You actually mean Mussorgsky, right?  :)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: mn dave on September 04, 2014, 05:30:10 AM
Quote from: Florestan on September 04, 2014, 05:29:42 AM
You actually mean Mussorgsky, right?  :)

Yeah, I was wondering...
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Sergeant Rock on September 04, 2014, 05:38:35 AM
Quote from: snyprrr on September 03, 2014, 01:09:05 PM
What's you're favourite Composer 'look'?

The country bumpkin look with the oversized jacket. Just off the bus (carriage), taking in the big city for the first time.

(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/may2014/Anton_bruckner.jpg)


Sarge
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Florestan on September 04, 2014, 05:42:57 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 04, 2014, 05:38:35 AM
The country bumpkin look with the oversized jacket. Just off the bus (carriage), taking in the big city for the first time.

:D :D :D Nice one.
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: springrite on September 04, 2014, 05:48:00 AM
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Lenny
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: mn dave on September 04, 2014, 05:49:15 AM
Quote from: springrite on September 04, 2014, 05:48:00 AM
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Lenny

THIS POST IS INVALID WITHOUT IMAGES!
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Rinaldo on September 04, 2014, 06:41:52 AM
Quote from: Florestan on September 04, 2014, 05:29:42 AM
You actually mean Mussorgsky, right?  :)

Right! Got caught looking at Repin's other portraits and suffered a brain mix-up :o
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: springrite on September 04, 2014, 06:46:54 AM
Quote from: Mn Dave on September 04, 2014, 05:49:15 AM
THIS POST IS INVALID WITHOUT IMAGES!
Validity is overrated.
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: mn dave on September 04, 2014, 07:58:34 AM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Gaspare_Spontini.jpg)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: TheGSMoeller on September 04, 2014, 08:43:51 AM
Yanni.
Classic, elegant.
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: snyprrr on September 04, 2014, 11:50:27 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 04, 2014, 05:38:35 AM
The country bumpkin look with the oversized jacket. Just off the bus (carriage), taking in the big city for the first time.

(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/may2014/Anton_bruckner.jpg)


Sarge

You can almost see how his coat is away from his collar, it's so big! ;)




Wow! Everyone took THIS Thread seriously, haha!! SOME REALLY AWESOME DUDS ALL AROUND!!! Them Composer types certainly have an idea of what they want to look like.

Quote from: Mn Dave on September 04, 2014, 07:58:34 AM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Gaspare_Spontini.jpg)

I'm quite impressed by this Boris Karloff look-alike's wondrously complex attire. Who is this??





Bartok

Ravel

Man I really have to get me some threads!! Surely I would write some good stuff if I just wore the right clothes? Currently I'm wearing the uniform of the new world slave (jeans/t-shirt)--- this won't do, This Thread Has Changed My Life!! ;D

Quote from: Florestan on September 04, 2014, 12:40:41 AM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Sergei_Rachmaninoff_LOC_33968.jpg)
(http://heroku-enescu-production.s3.amazonaws.com/2014/08/18/23/42/49/963/George_Enescu_arhiva.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Bart%C3%B3k_B%C3%A9la_1927.jpg)
(http://www.wagnerheim.com/photos/Richard_Wagner2.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/869/MI0002869234.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

But the real hero is this man:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Ilya_Repin_-_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%9C.%D0%9F.%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)

Rachy and Bruckner Tie !!

But would you look at all them Sharped Dressed Men!!! "Every girl's crazy..."


Modest's Playboy Look gets my second vote!!! Look at those PJs underneath!!! :laugh: :laugh:

However, Wagner has always been the most "laid back", no? Always ready for ... lounging!!



wow, some great stuff- STILL wanna see Roslavets,... Langaard??... I KNOW I've see worse bow ties!!



Lenny was such a fashion whore. mm mm mm--- GOTTA LOVE TURTLENECK + JACKET OVER SHOULDER!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: snyprrr on September 04, 2014, 11:52:52 AM
Quote from: EigenUser on September 03, 2014, 03:48:22 PM
Everyone seems to ignore the cool threads, including this one...

Hard to beat Ligeti in this category. This picture is framed in my music room, along with records of Bartok, Reich, and Gershwin.
(http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/imgs/s300x300/4776443.jpg)

(http://www.classical.net/music/images/composer/s/shostakovich3.jpg)

And of course,
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Erik_Satie_-_BNF1-cropped.jpeg)

yEA, you know that's IT right there, aint it!! It's the Donald Erb look, too, but he also rocked the Elvis hair--- Ligeti simply goes for the AllTime Classic!!

Ffffffuuuuuuu.... where are you going to find a decent jj ??
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions -DEAR KARLHEINZ....-
Post by: snyprrr on September 04, 2014, 11:56:05 AM
i Definitely Vote Stockhausen the Worst Fashion Faux Pas... that semi sci-fi/totalitarian furturist look... IN TAN... no less. no No NOOOO!!! James- I expect you to back me up on this... wait... are you wearing one NOW??!!! ???


DOES ANYONE actually wear the style of their Favourite Composer?? I'm just going MAKE Bartok my favourite and go from there, haha!!
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: snyprrr on September 04, 2014, 11:57:25 AM
There's the cover of the Ralph Shapey CD on Arabesque where he's wearing a plaid shirt Mexican gang-style. Hilarious!




Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on September 04, 2014, 11:58:42 AM
This is a fascinating and amusing, if ultimately, for me, a frustrating thread.  One should be careful of exaggeration, but there was up through the 19th century - vestiges remain today - a language of clothing, one that spoke of the social class, taste and breeding and sometimes of the personality of its wearers.  I wish we knew the language because it would make for some interesting discussion here.  In this era of flip-flops and baseball caps it's something we can hardly believe much less understand and it's waaaay too late in the game for me to attempt to acquire this knowledge.  But perhaps a fashion historian or a particularly ambitious music student might compile a catalog of composer's portraits and decode them for publication.  Might also be interesting to see who dresses like whom - a consideration in formal portraiture.
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions -CALLING OUT KARL-
Post by: snyprrr on September 04, 2014, 12:01:05 PM
Then there's the rat-tail and suspenders look... uh... Karl?? You there?
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: snyprrr on September 04, 2014, 12:04:14 PM
Quote from: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on September 04, 2014, 11:58:42 AM
This is a fascinating and amusing, if ultimately, for me, a frustrating thread.  One should be careful of exaggeration, but there was up through the 19th century - vestiges remain today - a language of clothing, one that spoke of the social class, taste and breeding and sometimes of the personality of its wearers.  I wish we knew the language because it would make for some interesting discussion here.  In this era of flip-flops and baseball caps it's something we can hardly believe much less understand and it's waaaay too late in the game for me to attempt to acquire this knowledge.  But perhaps a fashion historian or a particularly ambitious music student might compile a catalog of composer's portraits and decode them for publication.  Might also be interesting to see who dresses like whom - a consideration in formal portraiture.

Agreed- if you wear flip-flops, you won't be writing my music!!... sandals???... can you imagine your Composer wearing Birkenstocks???? :o :o :o

IT'S STILL POLITICAL

Joan Rivers Just Died
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on September 04, 2014, 12:13:25 PM
I've always felt that Von Weber might take first place in an Ichabod Crane look-alike contest!  Right down to the clothes.  (from Celebrated Pianists of Past & Present Times)

Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on September 04, 2014, 12:20:35 PM
Quote from: snyprrr on September 04, 2014, 12:04:14 PM
Agreed- if you wear flip-flops, you won't be writing my music!!... sandals???... can you imagine your Composer wearing Birkenstocks???? :o :o :o

IT'S STILL POLITICAL

Joan Rivers Just Died

We are in accord on this issue, snyprrr : men should keep their hairy toes under wraps!
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Ken B on September 04, 2014, 01:32:28 PM
(http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Shania-Twain-shania-twain-162275_597_403.jpg)

Yes, she writes music.
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: EigenUser on September 04, 2014, 05:50:57 PM
Quote from: snyprrr on September 04, 2014, 11:52:52 AM
yEA, you know that's IT right there, aint it!! It's the Donald Erb look, too, but he also rocked the Elvis hair--- Ligeti simply goes for the AllTime Classic!!

Ffffffuuuuuuu.... where are you going to find a decent jj ??
My fluid mechanics professor this semester looks a lot like Ligeti, actually. I showed people various people in the MechE department the album cover and pretty much everyone thought the resemblance was very amusing.

Quote from: snyprrr on September 04, 2014, 11:56:05 AM
i Definitely Vote Stockhausen the Worst Fashion Faux Pas... that semi sci-fi/totalitarian furturist look... IN TAN... no less. no No NOOOO!!! James- I expect you to back me up on this... wait... are you wearing one NOW??!!! ???
I was at the library today browsing scores and I came across one for Stockhausen's Kontra-Punkte. The inside cover had one of the most hideous pictures of him I've ever seen (taking up the whole page). I've always thought he looked pretty cool, but this was truly awful. God knows why Universal Edition chose to print it. I'll take a picture next time I'm there.

That being said, Ligeti has his share of unflattering pictures (check the Wikipedia one ???).
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Hollywood on September 04, 2014, 10:54:12 PM
(http://www.dominikanerinnen.at/kms/images/stories/Madame%20Tussauds/Mozart%20mit%20Notenblatt.jpg)

Party like it's 1789!

Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Florestan on September 05, 2014, 12:05:02 AM
Quote from: snyprrr on September 04, 2014, 11:50:27 AM
I'm quite impressed by this Boris Karloff look-alike's wondrously complex attire. Who is this??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspare_Spontini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspare_Spontini)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Florestan on September 05, 2014, 12:39:59 AM
It is also interesting to see how they evolved from youth to old age.

(http://www.classical.com/img/comp_72_192.jpeg)(http://assets7.classicfm.com/2011/10/composer-bizet-1299497814-view-0.jpg)

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-746gFn7Tci8/UV_bTE_4_jI/AAAAAAAA3Go/2H_EJsmGi38/s1600/misc+tidbits+brahms.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Stravinsky_Igor_Postcard-1910.jpg)(http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_09_img0666.jpg)

(http://derricksblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/young_rachmaninoff2.jpg)(http://c9900913.r13.cf2.rackcdn.com/03-15-07_sergei-rachmaninoff_original.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Der_junge_Richard_Strauss.JPG)(http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk/images/richard_strauss.jpg)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Mirror Image on September 05, 2014, 08:56:50 AM
Real composers wear blue jeans. ;D

(http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2013/08/21/1226701/556181-john-adams.jpg)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: Ken B on September 05, 2014, 04:22:18 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 05, 2014, 08:56:50 AM
Real composers wear blue jeans. ;D

(http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2013/08/21/1226701/556181-john-adams.jpg)
:laugh:
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: kishnevi on September 05, 2014, 05:01:46 PM
One more for this thread
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,2112.msg826873.html#msg826873
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: mn dave on September 05, 2014, 05:05:19 PM
(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vOszYphBipE/maxresdefault.jpg)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: ibanezmonster on September 05, 2014, 05:11:28 PM
Quote from: Mn Dave on September 05, 2014, 05:05:19 PM
(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vOszYphBipE/maxresdefault.jpg)

(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/G7mjVuGNSL8/maxresdefault.jpg)
Title: Re: Oh! No You Di'n't!: Favourite Composer Fashions
Post by: mn dave on September 05, 2014, 05:18:02 PM
\m/