Composer Lookalikes

[Boilk]

Can't help noticing how some celebritries
always remind me of a certain composer.

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_bennett.png http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_shotakovich_1.png
Comrade Dmitri ... and playright Alan Bennett

Or is it the other way around? :winkeye:

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_glass_1.png http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_spector_1.png

One Phil gave us the Wall of Sound in the late Sixties,
but another made an entire career out of it.

Or maybe it's the same person with a wig?

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_spector_2.png http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_stockhausen_1.png

Stockhausen and Spector ... the eyes have it.

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_rossini_1.png http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_manning_1.png

Entertainment can sometimes run in the family for generations
... whether it's opera or dodgy jokes.

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_part_1.png http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_fingerbobs_1.png

Judging by the pool of blood, it's Cantus in Memorium Fingerbobs.

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_ives_1.png http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_freud_1.png

If Charles Ives had got psychoanalysis from his lookalike,
maybe he wouldn't have retreated into 30 years of silence?

[Caliban]

:laugh: :laugh: :cracker: The Rossini - Manning pairing is particularly fun! :ok: Nothing incongruous at all! :laugh:

The Bennett-DSCH connection has struck me before.

Must be the first time 'Fingerbobs' has occurred to me in the best part of 40 years. I always found the title music rather depressing but boy it doesn't have take one back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU32lw4WXZw

Great Stuff, Bolik ! :ok:

[Petrushka]

Great fun, Bolik, keep 'em coming!

On a related topic, what about those composers who bear an uncanny resemblance to other composers? Can't do the images, sorry, but Anthony Payne has always struck me as a Richard Wagner lookalike while Gustav Mahler could win a Franz Schubert lookalike compo any day (though Rodin considered him to look more like Mozart). Also Edvard Greig and Gabriel Faure could be brothers.

[Boilk]

Great fun, Bolik, keep 'em coming!

... Anthony Payne has always struck me as a Richard Wagner lookalike

I can see where Petrushka is coming from re. Payne/Wagner, but I see Payne (centre below) more as the secret lovechild of Wagner and Cage.

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_wagner.jpg http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_payne.jpg http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_cage.jpg

[antongould]

On a bit of a tangent can I share my true story - having already bored my Alphabet Associations "chums" - of the Rossini Italian Restaurant in Barcelona where all the pictures are of Verdi!!!

[Beef Oven]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_ives_1.png http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_freud_1.png

If Charles Ives had got psychoanalysis from his lookalike,
maybe he wouldn't have retreated into 30 years of silence?

But he would have still sold insurance!

Very good look-alike.

[Beef Oven]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_rossini_1.png http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_manning_1.png

Entertainment can sometimes run in the family for generations
... whether it's opera or dodgy jokes.

This is ruddy hilarious!!!!!

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_britten1.jpg http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_james1.jpg

At first glance?

[Beef Oven]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_britten1.jpg http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_james1.jpg

At first glance?

Yes, keep 'em coming Boilk, I'm nearly in tears here!!!

[Thomas Roth]

Riccardo Chailly could be my twin brother.

[Beef Oven]

To many people Bernard Manning was a pariah, but wouldn't they change their minds if they knew he wrote those jolly string symphonies and The Barber of Seville?

[Petrushka]

Confession time: Shostakovich could be my twin brother - and no I'm not putting up a photo to prove it!

I think Sir Edward Downes was told that he looked like Shostakovich...by DSCH himself! Can someone confirm this story which I think Sir Edward told in a TV interview?

[Caliban]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_britten1.jpg http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_james1.jpg

At first glance?

Long beyond the first glance: that's perfect!! :bubbly: :cracker: :laugh: :laugh:

And have you noticed, you never saw them in the same room together..?

I wonder... :erm:

[amateur51]

To many people Bernard Manning was a pariah, but wouldn't they change their minds if they knew he wrote those jolly string symphonies and The Barber of Seville?Bernard Msanning had a nice tenor singing voice and cut several songs for Decca. I remember Pete Murray playing some on his Sunday night show on LBC aeons ago

I can't find examples anywhere :sadface:

[EdgeleyRob]

Shostakovich / Harry Potter ?

http://qso.com.au/composer-lookalike

[ahinton]

Gustav Mahler could win a Franz Schubert lookalike compo any day (though Rodin considered him to look more like Mozart)
It may be partly their respective oft-portrayed spectacles but, be this as it may (or may not), this resemblance hit me to such an extent that, towards the end of the first movement of the score of my Concerto for 22 (wind) Instruments, I actually took the liberty to draw two pairs of adjacent spectacles (representing each of them) at the point at which the (transposed) openings of Schubert's A minor Piano Sonata and B minor Symphony rub contrapuntal noses with the (also transposed) opening themes of the first movement, scherzo and finale of Mahler's Sixth Symphony in company with the opening theme of the first movement of my own work...

That said, I don't think that I look like any other composer and indeed hope that I don't, for any other composer's sake...

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/311905_10150307878437998_668527997_7947178_1577377 244_n.jpg

[Caliban]

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/311905_10150307878437998_668527997_7947178_1577377 244_n.jpg

:ok::ok::laugh:

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv232/IlGrandeInquisitor/Hector_berlioz.jpg http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv232/IlGrandeInquisitor/heseltine-9862.jpg

[Beef Oven]

http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv232/IlGrandeInquisitor/Hector_berlioz.jpg http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv232/IlGrandeInquisitor/heseltine-9862.jpg

:laugh:

[Beef Oven]

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/311905_10150307878437998_668527997_7947178_1577377 244_n.jpg

:laugh:

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/sibelius.jpg ... http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/frankenstein.jpg

On a subconscious level, there was always something that scared me about Sibelius.

[Simon]

:yikes: That's weird! Good thread, kboil.

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Surely Sibelius is Uncle Fester?!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tkvPIVUr_SA/TnqU3INrgXI/AAAAAAAAGmc/8dZq_9eLHeM/s400/Sibelius%2BUncle%2BFester.jpg

[Flay]

Surely Sibelius is Uncle Fester?!

:laugh: :laugh:

I stumbled across these excellent sketches - it doesn't compare faces, but the pictures are fun: http://www.opdebeeck.com/caricaturessketchesb.html

Here's Anton: http://www.opdebeeck.com/afbeeldingen/karikatuurschetsen/large/bruckner.jpg

[mercia]

Bernard Msanning had a nice tenor singing voice

??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctnBotHv08w

[amateur51]

??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctnBotHv08wCheers mercs - I recall something a tad more romantic but it gives you a flavour ... oh how I wish I hadn't tryped that now :sadface:

[Don Petter]

Brendel and Roy Hudd?

[Beef Oven]

Brendel and Roy Hudd?

Yes! Nice one :winkeye:

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/colonel-rubbra.png

Colonel Sanders ... ... ... Edmund Rubbra

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/brendel_crumb1.png

I hope Brendel never turns up to a Crumb premiere, it could result in some confusion.

[vinteuil]

Brendel and Roy Hudd?

o, it's usually Brendel and Eric Morecambe.... or Michael Fish... :whistle:

[Chris Newman]

.....and Brendel and Jonah in the Beano........

[Panjandrum]

http://i.imgur.com/QZ43Z.jpg (http://imgur.com/QZ43Z)http://i.imgur.com/ff3zO.jpg (http://imgur.com/ff3zO)
Andrew Davis Peter Warlock

Excuse the pony & trap formatting. :blush:

[Beef Oven]

http://i.imgur.com/qz43z.jpg (http://imgur.com/qz43z)http://i.imgur.com/ff3zo.jpg (http://imgur.com/ff3zo)
andrew davis peter warlock

excuse the pony & trap formatting. :blush:

omg! Peter warlock is an absolute dead-ringer for philip heseltine!!!!

[Serial_Apologist]

omg! Peter warlock is an absolute dead-ringer for philip heseltine!!!!

See #24, relatively speaking

[Don Petter]

If B Britten had lived to be a little bit older, he would have homed in on Sid James?

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/bruckner-davros.png

With apologies to my favourite 19th century symphonist.

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/glinka_galloway.png

With apologies to Mikhail Glinka.

[Petrushka]

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/311905_10150307878437998_668527997_7947178_1577377 244_n.jpg

Either of those could be me circa 1970's

[Beef Oven]

See #24, relatively speaking

There is no connection between Peter Warlock and Michael Heseltine, or am I missing something?

P.S. Other than his real middle name is Michael.

[Serial_Apologist]

There is no connection between Peter Warlock and Michael Heseltine, or am I missing something?

Both from the same family, just a generation apart. Peter Warlock's real name was Philip Heseltine. From what I remember the Heseltines owned the Ind Coope brewery. I do know they lived in a large late Victorian house at Great Warley in Essex, just south of Brentwood. There is a very beautiful church in what were the grounds, designed by the same architect as designed the Horniman Museum in East Dulwich and built in 1906, which has a unique Art Nouveau interior. Philip Heseltine/Peter Warlock occasionally played the organ there.

S-A

[Serial_Apologist]

http://www.stmary-greatwarley.org.uk

[Beef Oven]

Both from the same family, just a generation apart. Peter Warlock's real name was Philip Heseltine. From what I remember the Heseltines owned the Ind Coope brewery. I do know they lived in a large late Victorian house at Great Warley in Essex, just south of Brentwood. There is a very beautiful church in what were the grounds, designed by the same architect as designed the Horniman Museum in East Dulwich and built in 1906, which has a unique Art Nouveau interior. Philip Heseltine/Peter Warlock occasionally played the organ there.

S-A

Why did you miss out my P.S. out in your quote, where I refer to Philip Heseltine's middle name being Michael?

[Beef Oven]

Why did you miss out my P.S. out in your quote, where I refer to Philip Heseltine's middle name being Michael?

It is nicer than Arnold.

[Panjandrum]

http://i.imgur.com/kwAte.jpg (http://imgur.com/kwAte)http://i.imgur.com/6Egok.jpg (http://imgur.com/6Egok)


E J Moeran's lovechild?

[MrGongGong]

This thread (which is most amusing indeed so don't get me wrong !)
is on the "Talking about music" board
to what extent is this subject "about music" ?

(Answers with reference to Dahlhaus will be most welcome ):biggrin:

[Panjandrum]

http://i.imgur.com/wPr5W.jpg (http://imgur.com/wPr5W) http://i.imgur.com/L5YPa.jpg (http://imgur.com/L5YPa)
A revolutionary composer?

[Serial_Apologist]

http://i.imgur.com/wPr5W.jpg (http://imgur.com/wPr5W) http://i.imgur.com/L5YPa.jpg (http://imgur.com/L5YPa)
A revolutionary composer?

Who's the one on the left, Panjam?

BTW Stalin was a reactionary, not a revolutionary...

[Tapiola]

Who's the one on the left, Panjam?

BTW Stalin was a reactionary, not a revolutionary...

Is the one on the left Prokofiev? If so, there is a double-hit here as he and Uncle Joe died on the same day.

Great thread, this.

[Panjandrum]

Who's the one on the left, Panjam?

BTW Stalin was a reactionary, not a revolutionary...


Is the one on the left Prokofiev? If so, there is a double-hit here as he and Uncle Joe died on the same day.

Great thread, this.

Clue No.1. The guy who isn't Stalin is not Russian.

[PJPJ]

Excellent portrait of the composer - looking at it gives me a feeling of utter bliss.

[Serial_Apologist]

Clue No.1. The guy who isn't Stalin is not Russian.

OK I give up!

[Serial_Apologist]

Excellent portrait of the composer - looking at it gives me a feeling of utter bliss.

AhAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

???

[PJPJ]

:laugh:

[Tapiola]

He looks like he could be some long-lost Windsor.

[amateur51]

He looks like he could be some long-lost Windsor.Babs' moustache was never that pronouced, surely? :yikes::biggrin:

[Tapiola]

Babs' moustache was never that pronouced, surely? :yikes::biggrin:

:laugh: I believe she used to remove it with Sidocrem. :blush:

[Chris Newman]

http://i.imgur.com/wPr5W.jpg (http://imgur.com/wPr5W) http://i.imgur.com/L5YPa.jpg (http://imgur.com/L5YPa)
A revolutionary composer?

Of course, I am the dashing young Sir Arthur Bliss.

I heard him conduct Morning Heroes at the Proms.

[Boilk]

This thread (which is most amusing indeed so don't get me wrong !)
is on the "Talking about music" board
to what extent is this subject "about music" ?

After some thought, I deliberately started this on the Talking About Music board, because it related to composer lookalikes rather than anybody lookalikes, which would then have rendered it appropriate for Platform 3!

[MrGongGong]

After some thought, I deliberately started this on the Talking About Music board, because it related to composer lookalikes rather than anybody lookalikes, which would then have rendered it appropriate for Platform 3!
indeed that makes perfect sense
I have just re-read this
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-6dsSqqISJUC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=%22what+is+a+fact+of+music+history%22&source=bl&ots=W0DuqPs770&sig=xxDcd7_ckZ8htukxswVpOnvPsQQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CNA7T4fwLcGdOqXKtd4C&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22what%20is%20a%20fact%20of%20music%20history%2 2&f=false

which is why I asked the question

:biggrin:

[Caliban]

Is the one on the left Prokofiev?

Time for a trip to specsavers, Taps?

Prokofiev never had a moustache. In fact he always reminded me more of:http://i.imgur.com/SAG1F.jpg (http://imgur.com/SAG1F)

[Caliban]

Here's one for our friend amateur: his alter ego Margaret Rutherford and George Lloyd...
http://i.imgur.com/dEIC5.jpg (http://imgur.com/dEIC5)http://i.imgur.com/klgcj.jpg (http://imgur.com/klgcj)

[vinteuil]

Prokofiev never had a moustache. In fact he always reminded me more of:http://i.imgur.com/SAG1F.jpg (http://imgur.com/SAG1F)

... Alfred Brendel???

[amateur51]

Here's one for our friend amateur: his alter ego Margaret Rutherford and George Lloyd...:laugh:

You can see now why the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce took so long :whistle:

" He says to tell you he's just popped out of the office, Your Grace" :biggrin:

[Serial_Apologist]

He looks like he could be some long-lost Windsor.

Barbara Castle

[amateur51]

Barbara CastleExcellento, S_A :laugh: :cringe:

[Tapiola]

Here's one for our friend amateur: his alter ego Margaret Rutherford and George Lloyd...
http://i.imgur.com/dEIC5.jpg (http://imgur.com/dEIC5)http://i.imgur.com/klgcj.jpg (http://imgur.com/klgcj)

:laugh: :gift:

[Caliban]

:laugh:

You can see now why the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce took so long :whistle:

" He says to tell you he's just popped out of the office, Your Grace" :biggrin:

Everyone's entitled to a coffee break :biggrin:

Try this one for size. Ooooh Matron, I need some ointment on me Lyric Symphony.... Charles Zemlinsky and Alexander von Hawtrey, separated at birth...
http://i.imgur.com/T1bKq.jpg (http://imgur.com/T1bKq)http://i.imgur.com/F7J7T.jpg (http://imgur.com/F7J7T)

[Panjandrum]

Is the one on the left Prokofiev? If so, there is a double-hit here as he and Uncle Joe died on the same day.

Great thread, this.

Don't think Prokofiev ever had a thatch to match Bliss or Uncle Joe. His alopecia kicked in from the onset of puberty; poor love. :laugh:

[Panjandrum]

http://i.imgur.com/v4rdT.jpg (http://imgur.com/v4rdT) http://i.imgur.com/pcLAn.jpg (http://imgur.com/pcLAn)

Johannes, that's some fine facial hair there but my beard's bigger than yours...

[Serial_Apologist]

http://i.imgur.com/v4rdT.jpg (http://imgur.com/v4rdT) http://i.imgur.com/pcLAn.jpg (http://imgur.com/pcLAn)

Johannes, that's some final facial hair there but my beard's bigger than yours...

Full marx! :biggrin:

[Panjandrum]

http://i.imgur.com/Jou22.jpg (http://imgur.com/Jou22) http://i.imgur.com/BrPNM.jpg (http://imgur.com/BrPNM)

Yes. No doubt as to where Rick inherited his love of a good tune.

[Panjandrum]

http://i.imgur.com/rtuFy.jpg (http://imgur.com/rtuFy) http://i.imgur.com/hnfd6.jpg (http://imgur.com/hnfd6)

[Panjandrum]

http://i.imgur.com/7OyA9.jpg (http://imgur.com/7OyA9) http://i.imgur.com/O5exi.jpg (http://imgur.com/O5exi)

Sergey, I think it's time we went to Specsavers!

[amateur51]

Johannes, that's some final facial hair there but my beard's bigger than yours...I had no idea that Marx was from Bristol :yikes::biggrin:

[Beef Oven]

:laugh: :gift:

Killer! :laugh:

[mercia]

surely Mr Sewell #78 ought to look like Mr Warlock #39.

[Pabmusic]

http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q537/pabmusic/Elgar2.jpghttp://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q537/pabmusic/Gabriel_Faur_devant_son_piano_dans_son_appartement _boulevard_Malesherbes.jpg

I think Gabriel badly needs a drink, too.

[Panjandrum]

surely Mr Sewell #78 ought to look like Mr Warlock #39.

One would think.

[Panjandrum]

http://i.imgur.com/0VVwN.jpg (http://imgur.com/0VVwN) http://i.imgur.com/08lZ4.jpg (http://imgur.com/08lZ4)

As he got older Sergey started to feel that he had acquired another doppelganger.

[Panjandrum]

http://i.imgur.com/1y13p.jpg (http://imgur.com/1y13p) http://i.imgur.com/edKe2.gif (http://imgur.com/edKe2)

Actor David Gant Composer Luigi Nono

[mercia]

Sergeyevich should have stuck to librarianship

[Caliban]

Actor David Gant Composer Luigi Nono

:erm:

[Panjandrum]

http://i.imgur.com/Katjx.jpg (http://imgur.com/Katjx) http://i.imgur.com/P1UlK.jpg (http://imgur.com/P1UlK)

A penchant for composing interminable symphonies should have alerted the genealogists before now.

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/bruckner-davros_2.png

I do think the resemblance here is closer than with Havergal Brian
... and provides proof that Bruckner was kept on a mobile life support machine
for most of the twientieth century. It was a shame he was too incapacitated
to complete his "Ninth" (where's that darn Eric Fenby when you need him?).

[Caliban]

I do think the resemblance here is closer than with Havergal Brian ... and provides proof
that Bruckner was kept on a mobile life support machine for most of the twientieth century.

Brilliant, Bolik! :ok:

[Parry1912]

Brilliant, Bolik! :ok:

Bolik! I think you mean Boilk. :laugh:

This thread is certainly not a load of old boliks!

[Caliban]

Bolik! I think you mean Boilk. :laugh:

This thread is certainly not a load of old boliks!

Ah! I'd always read it as Bolik... Need to boost the font size I think... i and l look pretty interchangeable! :erm:

[Tapiola]

Ah! I'd always read it as Bolik... Need to boost the font size I think... i and l look pretty interchangeable! :erm:

The eyesight-compromising "twiddlings" over at the AA thread seem to be contagious, Caliban. :winkeye::whistle:

[Caliban]

The eyesight-compromising "twiddlings" over at the AA thread seem to be contagious, Caliban. :winkeye::whistle:

Cheeky! :biggrin:

[teamsaint]

I had trouble copying the photos.......but next time you see john Sessions on one of those shows he is always on, think .....Suite Bergamasque !!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I had trouble copying the photos
Yes; how do you copy a photo from the internet and put it side-by-side with another photo from the internet?

[french frank]

Yes; how do you copy a photo from the internet and put it side-by-side with another photo from the internet?Click on a Reply With Quote on one of those messages and see. You just set the two IMG codes side by side. Don't leave a space if you want them butted.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Click on a Reply With Quote on one of those messages and see. You just set the two IMG codes side by side. Don't leave a space if you want them butted.
Erm ... is an "IMG code" the same as a http:// number? :blush:

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/liszt_saville.png

Now then, now then, now then ... no cruel comments about facial pimples or crow's feet!

[Beef Oven]

:laugh::laugh:
http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/liszt_saville.png

Now then, now then, now then ... no cruel comments about facial pimples or crow's feet!

:laugh:

[Boilk]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/debussy.png

Every time I see a picture of Jack Daniels...

[EdgeleyRob]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/debussy.png

Every time I see a picture of Jack Daniels...

Is the one on the right Ricky Gervais ?

[teamsaint]

Is the one on the right Ricky Gervais ?

no, its john sessions.

[Panjandrum]

http://i.imgur.com/7VDeF.jpg (http://imgur.com/7VDeF) http://i.imgur.com/s5zeh.jpg (http://imgur.com/s5zeh)

Grandpa Munster .... Fritz Reiner

[Caliban]

http://i.imgur.com/7VDeF.jpg (http://imgur.com/7VDeF) http://i.imgur.com/s5zeh.jpg (http://imgur.com/s5zeh)

Grandpa Munster .... Fritz Reiner

:cracker::magic:

:star:

[Beef Oven]

http://i.imgur.com/7VDeF.jpg (http://imgur.com/7VDeF) http://i.imgur.com/s5zeh.jpg (http://imgur.com/s5zeh)

Grandpa Munster .... Fritz Reiner


:laugh::ok::laugh::ok::laugh:

[Estelle]

Thanks to all who posted such hilarious pairings--you inspired many a laugh. I never thought that poor Bruckner's homeliness could be surpassed, but that hideous mechano character succeeded. (I confess I don't know who he is.) The other stroke of genius is Reiner and Grandpa Munster above. There are many other apt juxtapositions here. Who is the younger version of Franz Liszt?

[amateur51]

Thanks to all who posted such hilarious pairings--you inspired many a laugh. I never thought that poor Bruckner's homeliness could be surpassed, but that hideous mechano character succeeded. (I confess I don't know who he is.) The other stroke of genius is Reiner and Grandpa Munster above. There are many other apt juxtapositions here. Who is the younger version of Franz Liszt?Why, tis Sir Jimmy Saville, Estelle - DJ, marathon runner, charity fundraiser, hospital volunteer and all-round dodgy geezer :winkeye:

[vinteuil]

Why, tis Sir Jimmy Saville, Estelle - DJ, marathon runner, charity fundraiser, hospital volunteer and all-round dodgy geezer :winkeye:

o no he isn't - Jimmy Saville's partner in #101 is surely Liszt...

Bruckner's partner is Havergal the Brian (#89), innit??

[amateur51]

o no he isn't - Jimmy Saville's partner in #101 is surely Liszt...

Yes vints - that's what estelle arxed and it's what I said, innit :biggrin:

[vinteuil]

Yes vints - that's what estelle arxed and it's what I said, innit :biggrin:

.... ammy - I am all confusion (and not for the first time today!).

ta :ok:

[Petrushka]

I'm not sure that Estelle will have much idea of who Sir Jimmy Savile was as she is in San Diego, California.

[Estelle]

Petrushka,
You're quite right that I had no idea who the recently deceased Sir Jimmy Saville was, but, once equipped with a name, it was easy to read about him. His Wiki article is comprehensive.

Now, if someone would be so kind as to identify Berlioz's alter ego… and Bruckner's partnered film character in that wild get-up (Message 43)…
And is the dandy in the bowler (Message 83) Sir Hubert Parry?

Many thanks from a warm, springy, and sunny San Diego.

[Petrushka]

Petrushka,
You're quite right that I had no idea who the recently deceased Sir Jimmy Saville was, but, once equipped with a name, it was easy to read about him. His Wiki article is comprehensive.

Now, if someone would be so kind as to identify Berlioz's alter ego… and Bruckner's partnered film character in that wild get-up (Message 43)…
And is the dandy in the bowler (Message 83) Sir Hubert Parry?

Many thanks from a warm, springy, and sunny San Diego.

Estelle,

Berlioz's alter ego in Msg 24 is former Tory politician, Michael (now Lord) Heseltine.

Msg 43 - Bruckner's film character: no idea, sorry.

Msg 83 - That's no dandy, that's English composer, Sir Edward Elgar whose music I can wholeheartedly recommend to you!

[Mr Pee]

http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_glass_1.png http://fursby.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/comp_spector_1.png

One Phil gave us the Wall of Sound in the late Sixties,
but another made an entire career out of it.

Or maybe it's the same person with a wig?

How about these two?

http://i.imgur.com/IKVwZ.jpg

[Estelle]

Petrushka,
Thank you for the identifications. I'm sorry if my comment appeared flippant; I meant it as complimentary.

Judging from their photos, Sir Edward Elgar and Sir Hubert Parry somewhat resembled each other in later life, in my view.

Thanks to an English music-loving friend, I have come to appreciate the music of both Elgar and Parry and have a fair representation in my collection.

Mr. Pee,
Brilliant!

[Serial_Apologist]

How about these two?

http://i.imgur.com/IKVwZ.jpg

All are dandies. One a lion.

[Beef Oven]

How about these two?

http://i.imgur.com/IKVwZ.jpg

:laugh::laugh::laugh: Mr Pee, you have taken this thread to a new level with this one!

[salymap]

Thanks all for some wonderful pairings. But where would we be without beards, moustaches, specs etc.

Surely today's composers would be harder to pair off like that. Great fun,thanks again.