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sir pball

(4,726 posts)
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 12:09 AM Jun 2014

Ya know, the Bumblebee was meant to fly with an orchestra..

I did not know this, and neither did my classical pianist dad. Flight of the Bumblebee was originally an orchestral interlude, which, after much digging and Google-fu:

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But then a guy named Sergei got his hands on it, and turned it into this pianist's nightmare (seriously, if your hands move this fast...well, I envy your sexual partners!):

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sir pball

(4,726 posts)
2. Maksim?
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Jul 2015

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He's arguably one of the greatest technical performers ever. As far as I know he's never composed, but he can play literally anything anybody has ever written for they keyboard, and his style is by far my favorite.

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