Top ten musicians of all time

[MrGongGong]

(Actually I think it should be 40 miles )

[Beef Oven!]

O level maths was a long time ago but i'm sure you can't have 18 "top ten" musicians?

I only scraped a 'C' 38 years ago, but this is not about maths. It's about music. Who are you - Xenakis?

[Ariosto]

Here is my top 10

Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz

[ahinton]

Here is my top 10

Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz

What about Jascha Heifetz?

[Hornspieler]

What about Jascha Heifetz?

Good question! Is he any relation of Ariosto's choice?

HS

[ahinton]

Good question! Is he any relation of Ariosto's choice?

HS

Je ne sais pas.

[Ariosto]

It's the old English/Jewish/East End spelling which his dad gave at the registry office in St Petersburg when he enrolled for the classes with Aeur. (He's Welsh by the way - it's short for Eneirin - and that's the old English/East End spelling for the Welsh dictionary (Bet you didn't know they had one). So old Jasha gnashed his teeth and set about playing the fiddle, and that was only because his old mum wouldn't let 'im do the johanna (pianer) because his sister was already banging around on it. (Ske played it as well). This is all historikal fact so don't you lot go around casting nisterchums on me spelling cause I never had time to go to school as I was skivvy to a conductor.

[ahinton]

It's the old English/Jewish/East End spelling which his dad gave at the registry office in St Petersburg when he enrolled for the classes with Aeur. (He's Welsh by the way - it's short for Eneirin - and that's the old English/East End spelling for the Welsh dictionary (Bet you didn't know they had one). So old Jasha gnashed his teeth and set about playing the fiddle, and that was only because his old mum wouldn't let 'im do the johanna (pianer) because his sister was already banging around on it. (Ske played it as well). This is all historikal fact so don't you lot go around casting nisterchums on me spelling cause I never had time to go to school as I was skivvy to a conductor.

Well, that's at least better than only scraping a C 38 years ago (pace Boeuf non bourguignon above).

Seriously, though, Mr Heifetz was by all accounts a pianist of considerable talents and sometimes played piano at his master-classes during his last year when he was no longer performing as a violinist. Rumour has it that he could play the piano parts of all ten Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano from memory; rumours are just rumours, I know, but can you imagine what it might have felt like to have been a student playing the Kreutzer at a Heifetz master-class with Heifetz himself playing what's hardly a walk in the park of a piano part from memory?

[cloughie]

Here is my top 10

Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz
Jasha Heifetz

Don't fiddle around - say who you like!

[ahinton]

Don't fiddle around - say who you like!

Indeed; no need to split hairs (or so I was Tourte).

[Beef Oven!]

Well, that's at least better than only scraping a C 38 years ago (pace Boeuf non bourguignon above).

I suppose clever-cloggs ahinton got an A, 48 years ago.

[cloughie]

I suppose clever-cloggs ahinton got an A, 48 years ago.

I think 48 years ago the grading was 1-9 not A-E!

[amateur51]

Indeed; no need to split hairs (or so I was Tourte).

Toupée!

[Ariosto]

I must say that the wit on here is excruciating - but also very, very funny. Keep it up as the actress said ...

[ahinton]

I suppose clever-cloggs ahinton got an A, 48 years ago.

Sadly neither!