Humbert is a pianist

mahesh69a

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But is he as good as the maestro/virtuoso ?

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yokied

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Humbert could really go places folks. About the only thing against him is that he’s French.

Sysyphus said:
a lot of people don't know this, but whenever the french players aren't playing tennis, they all actually sit around playing songs from the soundtrack of Amélie over and over again. it's part of the culture.
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They have a special edition of White Christmas they do courtside for Dan Evans matches.
 
Bender

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Sysyphus said:
a lot of people don't know this, but whenever the french players aren't playing tennis, they all actually sit around playing songs from the soundtrack of Amélie over and over again. it's part of the culture.
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And when French WTA players aren't playing tennis, they all actually sit around quoting lines from La Vie d'Adèle and smoking through quellazaires.

Meanwhile, the uncouth Spanish players in their spare time do nothing but brutish footwork and movement drills during the local encierro where they let loose the Nadal on the streets of Majorca and they try to avoid getting trampled. Apparently it's easier to escape on cement roads because bulls can change direction on dirt far better than most humans can.
 
NonP

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Man you jokers can't leave well enough alone. So the guy is no Liberace, let alone Horowitz. BFD.

Anyhoo:

BeatlesFan said:
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mahesh69a said:
But is he as good as the maestro/virtuoso ?

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A pretty smart pair of jeans, actually. Uniqlo invaded my local mall (one of the few thriving in the US) a couple years before they landed probably their biggest marketing coup in Fed, and every time I pass by the store it seems to be doing pretty brisk business, at least before the pandemic.

Alexrb said:
This.

Saw 'pianist' and expected Liszt but got Mary had a little lamb. It's cool he can play, but the video was very awkward to watch. Like why is the chef and three other rando's standing there?
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Most of Liszt's showpieces make even pros squirm. And those guys were clearly appreciating a pro athlete displaying his skill outside his usual arena.

Zetty said:
Just copying and replaying someone else's music, big difference!
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Like 99% of all concert pianists today. "Composer-pianist" ain't a thing no more, except part-timers like Hamelin or improvisers like Montero:

 
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It doesn't surprise me they can play piano, too. When you meet these kind of people when they are kids, they do everything. Music, sport, academics.
 
Wurm

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Man you jokers can't leave well enough alone. So the guy is no Liberace, let alone Horowitz. BFD.
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I wasn't expecting to see him serenely wafting his way through Chopin's Revolutionary Etude but "Meet the piano man of tennis" is pregnant with the expectation that he'll be playing something a tiny bit harder than he is. Not Humbert's fault, mind (unless he chose to play something well within him so he didn't screw it up), it's whoever put the video together and gave it that title - it's as if tennis players aren't expected to have the ability to do much more than wipe their own backsides.

Up next, a video of a tennis player playing Smells Like Teen Spirit with the title: "Meet the guitar man of tennis".
 
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merwy

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Don’t want to sound snobbish but when I was in middle school there were multiple kids in my class that had taught themselves how to play that Amelie song. I play classical piano and I can tell you that it’s not exactly the most difficult piece out there.
 
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merwy said:
Don’t want to sound snobbish but when I was in middle school there were multiple kids in my class that had taught themselves how to play that Amelie song. I play classical piano and I can tell you that it’s not exactly the most difficult piece out there.
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How were their backhands?
 
NonP

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Wurm said:
I wasn't expecting to see him serenely wafting his way through Chopin's Revolutionary Etude but "Meet the piano man of tennis" is pregnant with the expectation that he'll be playing something a tiny bit harder than he is. Not Humbert's fault, mind (unless he chose to play something well within him so he didn't screw it up), it's whoever put the video together and gave it that title - it's as if tennis players aren't expected to have the ability to do much more than wipe their own backsides.

Up next, a video of a tennis player playing Smells Like Teen Spirit with the title: "Meet the guitar man of tennis".
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As a classically (mostly self-)trained pianist myself I can tell you Ugo has a good sense of rhythm and his grace notes are tastefully deployed. Granted nobody would describe his tone as cantabile, but that can be said of pretty much every other amateur's. I'm glad he's got such a rewarding hobby and hope he keeps it up.

P.S. The "Revolutionary" isn't supposed to be "serene," but more like this:


You'll be hard-pressed to name anyone else past or present with a more scorching left hand in this warhorse. Con fuoco, indeed.

merwy said:
Don’t want to sound snobbish but when I was in middle school there were multiple kids in my class that had taught themselves how to play that Amelie song. I play classical piano and I can tell you that it’s not exactly the most difficult piece out there.
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None of Chopin mazurkas ain't "the most difficult piece out there" either, but no pro worth his salt would call them easy. For real cognoscenti what you can play matters less than how you play it.
 
TimHenmanATG

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Some people here are being churlish, but Ugo is clearly a very talented guy.

It's amazing how expressive and beautiful the keys on the piano can be:

 
Zetty

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NonP said:
Man you jokers can't leave well enough alone. So the guy is no Liberace, let alone Horowitz. BFD.

Anyhoo:




A pretty smart pair of jeans, actually. Uniqlo invaded my local mall (one of the few thriving in the US) a couple years before they landed probably their biggest marketing coup in Fed, and every time I pass by the store it seems to be doing pretty brisk business, at least before the pandemic.



Most of Liszt's showpieces make even pros squirm. And those guys were clearly appreciating a pro athlete displaying his skill outside his usual arena.



Like 99% of all concert pianists today. "Composer-pianist" ain't a thing no more, except part-timers like Hamelin or improvisers like Montero:

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Yea, everyone's a hack now :-D
 
Wurm

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P.S. The "Revolutionary" isn't supposed to be "serene," but more like this
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Er, serene was used to describe the possible demeanour of Humbert were he to be so in command of the instrument as to be playing such a challenging and busy piece of music effortlessly, not the piece of music itself. It's the last thing I set about learning on the piano decades ago during a brief period where I discovered, ironically via the guitar player Tony MacAlpine, there was piano music I actually liked. I abandoned the effort after a few months and just stuck to playing guitar, an instrument I prefer inestimably more.
 
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NonP said:
Man you jokers can't leave well enough alone. So the guy is no Liberace, let alone Horowitz. BFD.

Anyhoo:




A pretty smart pair of jeans, actually. Uniqlo invaded my local mall (one of the few thriving in the US) a couple years before they landed probably their biggest marketing coup in Fed, and every time I pass by the store it seems to be doing pretty brisk business, at least before the pandemic.



Most of Liszt's showpieces make even pros squirm. And those guys were clearly appreciating a pro athlete displaying his skill outside his usual arena.



Like 99% of all concert pianists today. "Composer-pianist" ain't a thing no more, except part-timers like Hamelin or improvisers like Montero:

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"He was supposed to play Chopin. Tonight, it will be Mozart and Schumann. Mikhail Pletnev does what he wants, and no one dreams of correcting him. His world is sealed in strangeness, which is nevertheless not an aesthetic, a system, because he seems to be ruled by the inspiration of the moment. Pletnev does the inverse of what others do, but he never seems to believe that he is more interesting that what he plays. There is something childlike, natural, and yet perversely playful in the way he opens up the motor of a Mozart sonata, to take it apart and put it back together backwards. [...]

In the [Schumann] Kreisleriana, op. 16, "fantasies" in the phantasmagoric sense of the word, Pletnev created a dream landscape so strange that it was at the edge of autism. When one got back home, one was tempted to consult the score in order to verify that what one heard was indeed written down. For example, at the end of the penultimate piece, Pletnev's keyboard (a Blüthner piano) managed to create the perfect illusion of an organ heard in the distance, in a closed and lonely chapel; when the motif came back, it was at the same distance, the same chapel, the same organ, but heard through the opened door. Few even understand that acoustic refinement, let alone know how to create it. That is why Mikhail Pletnev is considered by his peers as one of the greatest living pianists." https://ionarts.blogspot.com/2006/04/mikhail-pletnev-in-paris.html

 
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