Composer Lookalikes

[Boilk]

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


Comrade Dmitri ... and playright Alan Bennett

Or is it the other way around?

[Boilk]

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]

Stockhausen and Spector ... the eyes have it.

[Boilk]

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

[Boilk]

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

[Boilk]

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

[Caliban]

The Rossini - Manning pairing is particularly fun! Nothing incongruous at all!

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 !

[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.

[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!!!