MUSICAL LOOKALIKES RELIVED! MOSTLY PIANISTS

It is Grand Prix weekend in Singapore, which means there are no concerts in the city. At least those concerts which we really care about. Which also means it's time to bring out the latest set of Musical Lookalikes, which I have collected since the last time.

There is an obvious bias to the Singapore music scene (see the next instalment) and its many interesting figures. There is also a bias towards pianists, and why not?

The great Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman
is beginning to look like the ageing
Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill)
of Star Wars Part 8.

Did anybody think that Alfred Brendel
looked like Mr Hooper (Will Lee) 
from Sesame Street?

Looking glamourous:
Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter
and the young Helen Mirren.

GOAT pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin
and his Hollywood lookalike,
character actor Michael Rooker.

Even the backdrop is the same.
The late Hungarian pianist Zoltan Kocsis
is a dead-ringer for Scorpio (Andy Robinson)
from Dirty Harry. So make my day, punk!

Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu
does look like the great Dame Moura Lympany.

Lowell Liebermann, composer of Gargoyles,
and his doppelganger,
 football manager Iain Dowie.

Enough of pianists. 

It's time to troll the others.

This is my favourite.
Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich
and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich
were sighted at Schloss vor Husum
buying CDs at the Danacord booth.

All are Dutchmen.
Conductor Jaap van Zweden
and his footballing compatriots,
Erik Ten Hag and Mitchell van der Gaag
coaching staff of Manchester United.

Famous Uruguayan conductor Jose Serebrier
and Larry Fine of The Three Stooges.

Violist Volodia Mykytka
of the Szymanowski Quartet
and adult movie superstar Ron Jeremy.

The great jazz pianist-composer
Nikolai Kapustin and
just about any Grumpy Cat.

 And here's some late additions:

Russian pianist Boris Berezovsky
and British actor-writer Stephen Fry.
Have you seen the size of their bellies lately?

Great American film composer John Williams
and great American composer Charles Ives.

Husum piano rarities guru Peter Froundjian
and Dr Zhivago actor Omar Sharif.

Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili
may not be a redhead but from neck down,
she's virtually Jessica Rabbit.

Japanese-German pianist Alice Sara Ott
and Blackpink's Lisa (Lalisa Manobal).

And here's another look at
Alica Sara Ott and Lisa of Blackpink.

Two great Americans:
Detroit Symphony's Leonard Slatkin
Minnesota Governor &
Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz.