I get that they can play well, what I don't get is why there are five of them when these notes could be covered as well with just two people. There's very little they're doing here that couldn't be done by a soloist, either. Most piano ensembles with more than two people are for the impressiveness of having that many pianos onstage at once, which doesn't really translate to a video.
Also, this is actually only about a quarter of Rhapsody in Blue. Would have been nice to hear the whole thing.
I'm a Mormom? What is that you ignorant fool? Saying I am guilty because I am of the same religion is like saying every Catholic is guilty of molesting little boys because a few Catholic priests have done so. Get real you idiot.
They are EXTREMELY talented! Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know crap. Just so you know, all 5 of them attended Julliards at the same time. Wrap your head around that! Julliards only accepts the BEST and most talented. They are incredible performers, and musicians.
@GabijaSIGFox - maybe you crapped your way through your exam, but that is IMPOSSIBLE at a school like Julliards. If you graduate from there, you are the best, the brightest, the most talented, and damned hard working.
They are alright, but I would have preferred they put a little more effort into making the piece their own instead of playing the parts note for note. Guys like Eugen Cicero or the Gershwin Piano Quartet are way better and make them look like pikers.
Un arrangement de circonstance d'une oeuvre brillante, -un "best off" des meilleurs passages- finalement au service de cinq musiciens peu scrupuleux sur la manière de se faire connaître.
On appelle cela faire un pot-pourri à l'américaine? Même s'ils jouent bien, cela n'excuse pas tout...
Whether the Browns are "talented" or not I do not know. But this much I do know: I read somewhere that a perfectionist practices until they get it right while a professional practices until they cannot get it wrong.
The Browns are professionals, and world-class ones, at that.
If you watch them play you will understand, they are not performing an exercise. The music is inside of them. Talent and hard work has given them the laudable ability to present it to the listener and share a portion of what they are experiencing. Music is very powerful magic.
Most of the great composer/artists have been through hell and back. That is the reason their music is so fantastic. I believe that it is the passion you see in their playing.
Some of the comments are that it is because of the religion. I beg to differ. It is a common thing now. It is happening all over the world but we hear about it now where before it was hidden. The best way to end all that kind of crap is to bring it ti the public's attention.
Read previous comment to understand, before calling me druggy. Im musician and know that they worked hard to get there, they worked fingers to the bone. Calling them talented is same as telling they hard work was useless and an excuse to your own laziness, they play piano at least 6h a day!! They have all my greatest respect!!!!! @freshfromrikers@profriend1@at one other guy who totally didn't understand me gearing rithm and music is learnable you have to work hard tho
@GabijaSIGFox Y'know...I've been playing the piano since I was five and I can tell you I had classmates who just not in any way shape or for musically inclined at all, even those who really worked hard? You can tell the difference between someone who just worked hard to learn the techniques and those who are naturally gifted in music. I'm not saying I am, but from observation of friends who are naturally talented and those who just play because they were forced to? There's a huge difference.
The Mormons are really perverse people. Multiple wives, domination of women and many instances of child sexual abuse. I feel sorry for those kids. So much horror hidden beneath the beautiful music.
you say it's unfair that they are so talented...they play beautifully, but we never know what burdens people are carrying. One of the sisters has had many eye operations and has lost the sight in one eye. The three sisters were all sexually molested by their father. They reported it, have severed ties with him, and last week he, speeding, drove his Porsche into a canyon in Utah, injuring his wife, but he still will be going to prison for 10 years to life for what he did to his children.
Boy, those kids sure are talented. They have really great phrasing. I like how the are able to coordinate between one another so well. They aren't technicians, they are the real thing. I'm sorry to hear about all that they have been through with their father, as far as the music goes, they damn good. Are they at the level of an Arthur Rubinstein? Only time will tell. The oldest girl has the potential to be.
@EinKleinerEngel09 I'm sure they are all quite talented. My point is really that in the world of piano performance, individuals have to be uber-talented (i.e., Kissin) OR have a gimmick of some sort (i.e., Lang Lang, with his bizarre mannerisms) to separate the wheat from the chaff. I get the sense they couldn't make it as individuals, unfortunately, and thus put together a mega-ensemble to market themselves. It's truly unique in that sense, no question, but not very interesting to me.
they just split up one piano's worth of music over 5 instruments so their dad could market them as a traveling homeschool freakshow. i watched a couple of videos of them talking and they sound like the family from Dogtooth. complete with incest, i might add. :P
These are gifted kids that will move on to continue to delight millions with their music. I won't call the victims because that's demeaning. They are to be celebrated, as they have families of their own and be better and stronger parents.
it's just not that interesting to me; the capability of a single pianist (or duo pianists) handling the works they perform makes all of this, well, superfluous, to me. It just comes across that individually they didn't have enough to make it in the concert world, so they had to find this hook of 5 pianos playing together. Umm, yea?
Joining the Mormon church would not entitle you to have multiple wives. If u want multiple wives u would need to join a sect! Try Colorado city, but won't find any of the Browns there...
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Their music seems to be more about who can make the most ridiculous facial expressions and head twitching. I am embarrassed to be in the same religion as them. They're freaks!
Such talented musicians. My heart goes out to all of the Brown children as they cope with the aftermath of their father's "alleged" sexual abuse. I believe their story. Perhaps music provided them all with a safe haven.
@Madre02 The abuse isn't "alleged." The father plead guilty today to the one charge of sodomy of a child and to two counts of sex abuse of a child. The sodomy charge comes from oral sex incidences and the two counts of sex abuse are from fondling. I hope he goes to prison for the rest of his life and becomes someone's bitch. Then he'll know what sodomy really is.
that's fair enough. Sorry if I offended your sensitivity. I just love how these 5 siblings arrange their pieces. Sure, Herbie Hancock AND Lang lang play the Purist version, (not exactly as written by GG ) but brilliant, with full orchestra. Check it out. But I still love those Brown Sisters!!
So that's what ecstacy actually looks like! The facial expressions on the beautiful Brown Sisters after almost every phrase!!! I guess they are a bit older now, but that kind of beauty doesn't go away. Where are they today? Do they tour? Maybe in Europe sometime, particularly Ireland?
they ARENT talanted! they are hardworking ppl there and i respect them... i know they're not talented cuz i graduated music school by learning last piano exam in a week from blank - they sad i was talented but i know im not - i was sitting at that piano all the time at that week and working my fingers to the bone and those guys there are no different... you dont know what talent is: its a piece of worthless gold.. wich none of those guys had when they started ...
@GabijaSIGFox so true, i mean....they are good pianists for sure, but anyone with the time they had basically, and good teaching could reach this level or close to it. they are still not professional, and they have sooo many resources that others dont have. i saw them in concert, they are good players, but not THAT special
@jonah12321 that's what i wanted to say basically, everything is possible if you want it - because if you do you will try and that's all that is needed ;] - i mean, yah they had moms and dads who prob supported them, but that and anything else can be achieved just with your willpower - I'm not rich and my parents are poor we have loads of money debts n stuff... but that never stopped me nor any of my friends and one of them is in a group called ambermusic and they go all over performing
@GabijaSIGFox I think many people have a mistaken understanding of what musical "talent" really is. It isn't their abiility to play well - it's their brain's fundamental ability to think musically, understand and create rhythym, to communicate precise and coordinated movement to their muscles, to recognize musical pitch. Without the training and hard work though, the talent would be wasted.
@Profriend1 That is so true. I was born with musical talent. Learned the piano at an early age, When I was in my teens I started doing other things rather than practicing at least 4 hours a day. My talent which would've turned into technical skills vanished. Talent is useless without hardwork, if you let it slip away it will.
@GabijaSIGFox I'm pretty sure if they weren't talented they wouldn't have all graduated from Julliard...or are you gonna tell me you don't have to be talented to go to Julliard?
@GabijaSIGFox I agree with you. There's a quote I love... "No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius."
Actually, GabijaSIGFox is right. Talent doesn't exist. It is all about hard work and diligence. There is this interesting article called "What it takes to be great" by Geoffrey Colvin. It should give you a different insight about what you call "talent".
I feel that believing in natural talent will stop you from being your best self. You don't have a talent you need to find, but a skill you need to develop.
Actually, you're wrong, and so is GabijaSIGFox. Mozart was five years old when he composed his first piece, in the back of a carriage, with no piano. Five years doesn't give you that much time to sit at a piano and practice until your bones fall off. That, my friend, is called Raw Talent. Only a few have it. Of course Mozart honed his talent, and the Browns might have done that as well. Who's to say they didn't?
"Talent is a term used by people who don't want to work for something. They want to believe there is reason someone can do something they cannot. Therefore, they say someone has talent, while actually insulting that person. That person works hard for their life for something and someone says they have talent and don't have to practice is an insult. They're hard work goes un noticed because peope think it comes naturally, when it just has become easier due to hard work" -David
There seems to be some inconsistency with your story. How can someone who has absolutely no experience with music be able to write music? He must have been surrounded by it and picked it up the same way he spoke English. Because, hell, if you can find for me a kid in America who randomly started speaking Chinese fluently without ever having an opportunity to practice it or without being immersed in the language, I'll eat a rock, because that is the talent you are describing.
@HeartBreak2291 Talent exists. There are many ways to prove it. The multiple intelligence theory itself shows that certain people are better at things over others. There are people who are just amazing at grasping mathematical concepts, people who are just better at playing sports, people who are musical virtuosos, people who never study to draw but are just amazing at it, etc. I know people like these. They excel at things they do with little effort compared to people who would try to without.
the multiple "multiple intelligence theory" is just a theory. and unlike most theories, it lacks almost any support. This "theory" (if you can even call it that.) lacks any testing or empirical evidence, though it is filled with rhetoric.
People who are raised in a family where the father or mother is a scientist seem to be "talented" in math, and people who grow up with musically trained parents seem to be musically "gifted" as well. So how can you prove it's genes or observance?
@HeartBreak2291 I grew up with an English teacher for a mom and a businessman for a father. Guess what I'm doing now? Engineering and Applied Physics. Why? Because that's what I'm good at. I'm also good at drawing and painting and no one in my family draws or paints nor was I ever regularly exposed to drawing or paintings or taking any lessons in such but I grew up bring able to draw and paint well.
So where did I get that skill then? Since none of my family does the things I am good at.
That doesn't help prove your point at all, you know. My dad is a general contractor and my mom is a music teacher, and I'm going to college for Aerospace Engineering. See how that works? It doesn't prove either of our points. Though, I'll admit, if my mom wasn't a music teacher, I probably wouldn't play piano half as well as I do now.
You aren't an engineer because you got lucky with a gift. You are an engineer because you worked your ass off studying Mathematics and Engineering.
That doesn't help prove your point at all, you know. My dad is a general contractor and my mom is a music teacher, and I'm going to college for Aerospace Engineering. See how that works? It doesn't prove either of our points. Though, I'll admit, if my mom wasn't a music teacher, I probably wouldn't play piano half as well as I do now.
You aren't an engineer because you got lucky with a gift. You are an engineer because you worked your ass off studying Mathematics and Engineering.
@thejesusfreak919 Mozart was the worst out of most classic composers in my opinion. Bach, chopin, rachmaninov, horowitz, liszt, I'm not even a fan of beethoven, but he had more of an impact on me. Mozart was surounded by music growing up, his ears adapted, it's what mammals do.
@davidomgwork Practically everyone is surrounded by music growing up, it doesn't make everyone composers. As much as I would love to compose music, I just don't have the talent for it.
And adaptation doesn't make us amazing at tasks. >.>
@HeartBreak2291 Talent doesn't exist? Really now? People can differentiate between a musical prodigy (say a piano player) over a person who "worked hard to be good".
People have talents and they can work on those talents to be better at them, or they can just put them back in the trunk. Like singing and dancing. There are people who just can't damned well dance, or damned well sing, no matter how much training they dedicate. And one person cannot dictate the existence of talent.
You didn't provide any evidence to support your claim, other than your word alone. Out of all the people who argued against my comment, yours is the least convincing. :/
Do you really believe that you are such a reliable source that people will just believe you for speaking?
5 young, good-looking people playing technically-impeccable pianos in a sunlit room, looking way to emotional for their own good while playing an abbreviated version of a great piece? I'll take old, grouchy people hunched over a piano playing the long, "boring" version any day.
Well, points for trying, but I don't like this rendition at all, the arrangement could have been so much better. They're too often practically playing in unison, not creating an orchestral sound - and 3:06 is horrible.
@ArtD42 Wow! So much verbal diarrohea. Are you one of the "old grouchy people"? Or are you just a mouthy know-it-all who failed even 1st grade music exam??
@MultiGeraghty Did I say you aren't allowed to enjoy it? I am not one of those people who feel they're "morally superior" because I like the other version better. It just doesn't suit my tastes, and I have a right to express that disapproval.
the 5 people who have so far voted ths video down are just jealous and retarded and should not be allowed to comment on music ever again. This is UH-MAZING!
Music is not fast food, and ought not to be marketed as such. Most of what they play is so reprocessed (musically) to be rather unrecognizeable, compared to the originals. But it’s always nice to hear a bunch of perfectly in-tune-with-each-other and matched pianos sounding together. Only about a third of this arrangement was exciting. Also worth noting: ***NO 3 B’s*** on their albums.
They started when they were really little, they were home schooled & thats like all they did when they were little, (they're my cousins). But all 5 of them go to Julliard so they are pretty amazing :)
yes in my opinion. Steinways are the more versatile. However there are some bosendorfers I enjoy and some steinways I enjoy. Both are EXCELLENT! However, If i had to choose one to own in my household I would probably look at a Steinway as my first choice.
Ariduanaish said, "George Gershwin is, in many ways the musical embodiment of that jazz that dictate school in 900. This execution is excellent, there are all fundamental aspects of Gershwin's music that makes it so innovative and popular. Excellent." Does that help? :)
It might be the sound quality of it. I'm sure if you saw it live then there would be a massive amount of power produced by the five instruments working together.
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gscaria 2 weeks ago
I LOVE them! I would kill to take piano from any of them!!!! I wish I was that good. They truly are an inspiration!
NatalieZJ22 1 month ago
how could anyone dislike this!?!?!?! Pure Talent.
harpcrazee 1 month ago
they are quints!
witchaywoman 1 month ago
I get that they can play well, what I don't get is why there are five of them when these notes could be covered as well with just two people. There's very little they're doing here that couldn't be done by a soloist, either. Most piano ensembles with more than two people are for the impressiveness of having that many pianos onstage at once, which doesn't really translate to a video.
Also, this is actually only about a quarter of Rhapsody in Blue. Would have been nice to hear the whole thing.
johannhowitzer 1 month ago
Woooooooww!!!!
manud93 2 months ago
They are just...GENIUS!
lavityjane 2 months ago
That's so unfair.
They're ridiculously talented AND they're gorgeous.
So.
Unfair.
BelNemecsek96 3 months ago 4
Magnifique !
TweedleGum 3 months ago
I'm a Mormom? What is that you ignorant fool? Saying I am guilty because I am of the same religion is like saying every Catholic is guilty of molesting little boys because a few Catholic priests have done so. Get real you idiot.
castroprauxel1 5 months ago
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That.... wins the random comment of the year award....
HeartBreak2291 4 months ago 2
They are EXTREMELY talented! Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know crap. Just so you know, all 5 of them attended Julliards at the same time. Wrap your head around that! Julliards only accepts the BEST and most talented. They are incredible performers, and musicians.
@GabijaSIGFox - maybe you crapped your way through your exam, but that is IMPOSSIBLE at a school like Julliards. If you graduate from there, you are the best, the brightest, the most talented, and damned hard working.
letswing2 5 months ago
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letswing2 5 months ago
@GabijaSigFox I can understand how you feel, but you have to understand that there are many musicians in the world including, me, you, and the Browns
29martman 6 months ago
just shut up and listen to the music.
sunkissesandclouds3 6 months ago
They are alright, but I would have preferred they put a little more effort into making the piece their own instead of playing the parts note for note. Guys like Eugen Cicero or the Gershwin Piano Quartet are way better and make them look like pikers.
GunnandEvan 6 months ago
It's rare to see hot female pianists, so I thought they didn't exist.
Thank God for this video.
thejesusfreak919 6 months ago
how long did they practice ?
chanlongching666 6 months ago
the best version i ever heard
CWKITT 6 months ago
really, 7 people disliked, i have i hard time imagining one person no liking it, but seven, who are thes weird people
Damukra 7 months ago
I ' m agree they are all talented people, come on!
009fleuramour 7 months ago
Un arrangement de circonstance d'une oeuvre brillante, -un "best off" des meilleurs passages- finalement au service de cinq musiciens peu scrupuleux sur la manière de se faire connaître.
On appelle cela faire un pot-pourri à l'américaine? Même s'ils jouent bien, cela n'excuse pas tout...
Non, merci!!
angel75020 7 months ago
Still the greatest piece of American music ever composed.
GGUBoss 7 months ago
talent
–noun
1. a special natural ability or aptitude: a talent for drawing.
2. a capacity for achievement or success; ability: young men of talent.
songwriter436 7 months ago 10
damn they are all talented! most beautiful version I have heard
th3azscorpio 8 months ago
Whether the Browns are "talented" or not I do not know. But this much I do know: I read somewhere that a perfectionist practices until they get it right while a professional practices until they cannot get it wrong.
The Browns are professionals, and world-class ones, at that.
Twister051 8 months ago
@GabjiaSIGFox "Talent" is knowing how to spell the word "talent" right. They let you graduate school after that?
BigFatMacDaddy66 8 months ago 2
Super ce que 50 doigts et 5 pianos peuvent faire... tout simplement merveilleux !
anweta1 8 months ago
I get chills up and down my spine every time I hear them play.
imspiker2 9 months ago
God I love this song.
EldestEragonFreak 9 months ago
If you watch them play you will understand, they are not performing an exercise. The music is inside of them. Talent and hard work has given them the laudable ability to present it to the listener and share a portion of what they are experiencing. Music is very powerful magic.
stilldonnie1 9 months ago
Good. Lord. That was one of the best renditions of Rhapsody I've ever heard. Absolutely beautiful.
grayfoxpianist11 10 months ago
My God, what a bunch of losers writing these horrendous comments....that's all....
MrSammyscroll 10 months ago
Good thing they're on a concrete floor. There's a massive amount of weight in that area.
auaiao9 10 months ago
Is anyone else thinking "vampires!" ?
mattcabideinchrist 10 months ago 20
Most of the great composer/artists have been through hell and back. That is the reason their music is so fantastic. I believe that it is the passion you see in their playing.
Some of the comments are that it is because of the religion. I beg to differ. It is a common thing now. It is happening all over the world but we hear about it now where before it was hidden. The best way to end all that kind of crap is to bring it ti the public's attention.
Very nice posting. Thank you.
hearttoheart4me 11 months ago
Read previous comment to understand, before calling me druggy. Im musician and know that they worked hard to get there, they worked fingers to the bone. Calling them talented is same as telling they hard work was useless and an excuse to your own laziness, they play piano at least 6h a day!! They have all my greatest respect!!!!! @freshfromrikers @profriend1 @at one other guy who totally didn't understand me gearing rithm and music is learnable you have to work hard tho
GabijaSIGFox 11 months ago
@GabijaSIGFox Y'know...I've been playing the piano since I was five and I can tell you I had classmates who just not in any way shape or for musically inclined at all, even those who really worked hard? You can tell the difference between someone who just worked hard to learn the techniques and those who are naturally gifted in music. I'm not saying I am, but from observation of friends who are naturally talented and those who just play because they were forced to? There's a huge difference.
istheshiz 10 months ago 2
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GabijaSIGFox 11 months ago
You moron
GabijaSIGFox 11 months ago
how did the 5 browns get to carnegie hall?
incest, incest!
supdawg9999999 11 months ago
The Mormons are really perverse people. Multiple wives, domination of women and many instances of child sexual abuse. I feel sorry for those kids. So much horror hidden beneath the beautiful music.
gentleuterus 11 months ago
@gentleuterus
Pardon me, but, your ignorance is showing.
I was always told its better to keep your mouth shut and appear the fool than to open it and leave no doubt.
People are people, good and bad in every religion.
dmt3339 11 months ago
you say it's unfair that they are so talented...they play beautifully, but we never know what burdens people are carrying. One of the sisters has had many eye operations and has lost the sight in one eye. The three sisters were all sexually molested by their father. They reported it, have severed ties with him, and last week he, speeding, drove his Porsche into a canyon in Utah, injuring his wife, but he still will be going to prison for 10 years to life for what he did to his children.
rockstar127xx 11 months ago
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All of this talk of orgasms, you'll have to wait in line, they're dad has dibs.
CasimirRadon 11 months ago
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Daddy molested them.
CasimirRadon 11 months ago
5 Brown-Eyes! :O
schlumbucket 11 months ago
Boy, those kids sure are talented. They have really great phrasing. I like how the are able to coordinate between one another so well. They aren't technicians, they are the real thing. I'm sorry to hear about all that they have been through with their father, as far as the music goes, they damn good. Are they at the level of an Arthur Rubinstein? Only time will tell. The oldest girl has the potential to be.
eotto2001 11 months ago
@EinKleinerEngel09 I'm sure they are all quite talented. My point is really that in the world of piano performance, individuals have to be uber-talented (i.e., Kissin) OR have a gimmick of some sort (i.e., Lang Lang, with his bizarre mannerisms) to separate the wheat from the chaff. I get the sense they couldn't make it as individuals, unfortunately, and thus put together a mega-ensemble to market themselves. It's truly unique in that sense, no question, but not very interesting to me.
wsp67326 11 months ago
The recent story about them in the news will skyrocket their career everyone loves a David and Goliath story.
utmwaters5 11 months ago
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the 5 browns? more liek the 5 brown eyes with all that anus fucking theyve been doing, fucking pervs
lmosco 11 months ago
@lmosco STFU
tnao123 11 months ago
they just split up one piano's worth of music over 5 instruments so their dad could market them as a traveling homeschool freakshow. i watched a couple of videos of them talking and they sound like the family from Dogtooth. complete with incest, i might add. :P
bluntedtaoism 11 months ago
What talent and total a tragic life. I wonder how all this will effect them
fromtheright 11 months ago
These are gifted kids that will move on to continue to delight millions with their music. I won't call the victims because that's demeaning. They are to be celebrated, as they have families of their own and be better and stronger parents.
MrCrimenews 11 months ago 2
it's just not that interesting to me; the capability of a single pianist (or duo pianists) handling the works they perform makes all of this, well, superfluous, to me. It just comes across that individually they didn't have enough to make it in the concert world, so they had to find this hook of 5 pianos playing together. Umm, yea?
wsp67326 11 months ago
@sunsetsix
Joining the Mormon church would not entitle you to have multiple wives. If u want multiple wives u would need to join a sect! Try Colorado city, but won't find any of the Browns there...
grahnerik 11 months ago
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This goes to show you, folks - hard work, a tight family unit and sexual abuse can give you amazing results.
erniehead 11 months ago
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Their music seems to be more about who can make the most ridiculous facial expressions and head twitching. I am embarrassed to be in the same religion as them. They're freaks!
castroprauxel1 11 months ago
@castroprauxel1 u r also a freak, because ur a mormom. pot calling the kettle black.
lmosco 11 months ago
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castroprauxel1 11 months ago
Such talented musicians. My heart goes out to all of the Brown children as they cope with the aftermath of their father's "alleged" sexual abuse. I believe their story. Perhaps music provided them all with a safe haven.
Madre02 11 months ago
@Madre02 The abuse isn't "alleged." The father plead guilty today to the one charge of sodomy of a child and to two counts of sex abuse of a child. The sodomy charge comes from oral sex incidences and the two counts of sex abuse are from fondling. I hope he goes to prison for the rest of his life and becomes someone's bitch. Then he'll know what sodomy really is.
77thNYSV 11 months ago
they are talking
DIMELSA1 1 year ago
I think they're vampires.
kodymisha4 1 year ago
The 7 people who disliked this can only play chopsticks.
carahpants 1 year ago 29
Are they in a warehouse? That cold air can't be good for the pianos.
HendrixcommaMartin 1 year ago
5 Steinways? I wanna see them on 5 Bosendorfers!
Acts2822 1 year ago
5 Steinway? I wanna see them on 5 Bosendorfers!
Acts2822 1 year ago
I'll bet they fight like cats and dogs.
Bombeni 1 year ago
I wanna make one of those sisters my wife.
nautica85 1 year ago
@nautica85 I want to join the Mormon church and make all three of those sisters my wives! :)
SunsetSix 1 year ago
@SunsetSix I'm Game.
nautica85 1 year ago
They look like they are having a lot of fun!
abcvvn 1 year ago 3
that's fair enough. Sorry if I offended your sensitivity. I just love how these 5 siblings arrange their pieces. Sure, Herbie Hancock AND Lang lang play the Purist version, (not exactly as written by GG ) but brilliant, with full orchestra. Check it out. But I still love those Brown Sisters!!
MultiGeraghty 1 year ago
So that's what ecstacy actually looks like! The facial expressions on the beautiful Brown Sisters after almost every phrase!!! I guess they are a bit older now, but that kind of beauty doesn't go away. Where are they today? Do they tour? Maybe in Europe sometime, particularly Ireland?
MultiGeraghty 1 year ago
WOW! That was so cool! Beautiful and exciting! I love this song!
Who heard it through Fantasia 2000?
abcvvn 1 year ago
they r like twitching lol it looks SO FUNNY
ColINIZaBEAST 1 year ago
they ARENT talanted! they are hardworking ppl there and i respect them... i know they're not talented cuz i graduated music school by learning last piano exam in a week from blank - they sad i was talented but i know im not - i was sitting at that piano all the time at that week and working my fingers to the bone and those guys there are no different... you dont know what talent is: its a piece of worthless gold.. wich none of those guys had when they started ...
GabijaSIGFox 1 year ago 17
@GabijaSIGFox so true, i mean....they are good pianists for sure, but anyone with the time they had basically, and good teaching could reach this level or close to it. they are still not professional, and they have sooo many resources that others dont have. i saw them in concert, they are good players, but not THAT special
jonah12321 1 year ago
@jonah12321 that's what i wanted to say basically, everything is possible if you want it - because if you do you will try and that's all that is needed ;] - i mean, yah they had moms and dads who prob supported them, but that and anything else can be achieved just with your willpower - I'm not rich and my parents are poor we have loads of money debts n stuff... but that never stopped me nor any of my friends and one of them is in a group called ambermusic and they go all over performing
GabijaSIGFox 1 year ago
@GabijaSIGFox Are you kidding me!???!??! how can you call them NOT talented.
ReturnofTheDZ 11 months ago
@ReturnofTheDZ I pity your pathetic bpv lifestyle, lonely dz goes to a ghost group... pathetic, get laid for once you sad virgin.
ChildlessDZ 8 months ago
@GabijaSIGFox your weird. what the hell are you talking about?
alexisnewell 11 months ago
@GabijaSIGFox I think many people have a mistaken understanding of what musical "talent" really is. It isn't their abiility to play well - it's their brain's fundamental ability to think musically, understand and create rhythym, to communicate precise and coordinated movement to their muscles, to recognize musical pitch. Without the training and hard work though, the talent would be wasted.
Profriend1 11 months ago
@Profriend1 That is so true. I was born with musical talent. Learned the piano at an early age, When I was in my teens I started doing other things rather than practicing at least 4 hours a day. My talent which would've turned into technical skills vanished. Talent is useless without hardwork, if you let it slip away it will.
savethealcoholic 9 months ago
Dude you forgot to take your pills. @GabijaSIGFox
freshfromrikers 11 months ago
@GabijaSIGFox I'm pretty sure if they weren't talented they wouldn't have all graduated from Julliard...or are you gonna tell me you don't have to be talented to go to Julliard?
istheshiz 10 months ago 3
@GabijaSIGFox I agree with you. There's a quote I love... "No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius."
Anna Pavlova (Russian ballerina, 1881-1931)
lbobbett 10 months ago
@GabijaSIGFox Someone's just jealous. Only people who are jealous of people with talent would say something like that.
josefopeda 7 months ago
@josefopeda
Actually, GabijaSIGFox is right. Talent doesn't exist. It is all about hard work and diligence. There is this interesting article called "What it takes to be great" by Geoffrey Colvin. It should give you a different insight about what you call "talent".
I feel that believing in natural talent will stop you from being your best self. You don't have a talent you need to find, but a skill you need to develop.
HeartBreak2291 6 months ago
@HeartBreak2291
Actually, you're wrong, and so is GabijaSIGFox. Mozart was five years old when he composed his first piece, in the back of a carriage, with no piano. Five years doesn't give you that much time to sit at a piano and practice until your bones fall off. That, my friend, is called Raw Talent. Only a few have it. Of course Mozart honed his talent, and the Browns might have done that as well. Who's to say they didn't?
thejesusfreak919 6 months ago
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HeartBreak2291 6 months ago
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HeartBreak2291 6 months ago
@HeartBreak2291 stealing my quote IN? Least credit me would you.
davidomgwork 6 months ago
@davidomgwork
I replaced it with a quote, and your first name. But I ran out of characters, so I couldn't do your whole account name. T.T
HeartBreak2291 6 months ago
@thejesusfreak919
"Talent is a term used by people who don't want to work for something. They want to believe there is reason someone can do something they cannot. Therefore, they say someone has talent, while actually insulting that person. That person works hard for their life for something and someone says they have talent and don't have to practice is an insult. They're hard work goes un noticed because peope think it comes naturally, when it just has become easier due to hard work" -David
HeartBreak2291 6 months ago
@HeartBreak2291
So Mozart must have sucked then, since he didn't work for it. You must agree. Obviously, since you posted that.
Let me say this again...
Mozart. Five years old. No practice time. One of the world's great pieces.
Equals...
Practice?
Not without practice time.
Which means talent.
Thank you very much. (:
thejesusfreak919 6 months ago
@thejesusfreak919
There seems to be some inconsistency with your story. How can someone who has absolutely no experience with music be able to write music? He must have been surrounded by it and picked it up the same way he spoke English. Because, hell, if you can find for me a kid in America who randomly started speaking Chinese fluently without ever having an opportunity to practice it or without being immersed in the language, I'll eat a rock, because that is the talent you are describing.
HeartBreak2291 6 months ago
@HeartBreak2291 Talent exists. There are many ways to prove it. The multiple intelligence theory itself shows that certain people are better at things over others. There are people who are just amazing at grasping mathematical concepts, people who are just better at playing sports, people who are musical virtuosos, people who never study to draw but are just amazing at it, etc. I know people like these. They excel at things they do with little effort compared to people who would try to without.
josefopeda 5 months ago
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HeartBreak2291 5 months ago
@josefopeda
the multiple "multiple intelligence theory" is just a theory. and unlike most theories, it lacks almost any support. This "theory" (if you can even call it that.) lacks any testing or empirical evidence, though it is filled with rhetoric.
People who are raised in a family where the father or mother is a scientist seem to be "talented" in math, and people who grow up with musically trained parents seem to be musically "gifted" as well. So how can you prove it's genes or observance?
HeartBreak2291 5 months ago
@HeartBreak2291 I grew up with an English teacher for a mom and a businessman for a father. Guess what I'm doing now? Engineering and Applied Physics. Why? Because that's what I'm good at. I'm also good at drawing and painting and no one in my family draws or paints nor was I ever regularly exposed to drawing or paintings or taking any lessons in such but I grew up bring able to draw and paint well.
So where did I get that skill then? Since none of my family does the things I am good at.
josefopeda 4 months ago
That doesn't help prove your point at all, you know. My dad is a general contractor and my mom is a music teacher, and I'm going to college for Aerospace Engineering. See how that works? It doesn't prove either of our points. Though, I'll admit, if my mom wasn't a music teacher, I probably wouldn't play piano half as well as I do now.
You aren't an engineer because you got lucky with a gift. You are an engineer because you worked your ass off studying Mathematics and Engineering.
HeartBreak2291 4 months ago
That doesn't help prove your point at all, you know. My dad is a general contractor and my mom is a music teacher, and I'm going to college for Aerospace Engineering. See how that works? It doesn't prove either of our points. Though, I'll admit, if my mom wasn't a music teacher, I probably wouldn't play piano half as well as I do now.
You aren't an engineer because you got lucky with a gift. You are an engineer because you worked your ass off studying Mathematics and Engineering.
HeartBreak2291 4 months ago
@josefopeda
I don't know where you got your skill from. I never read your autobiography. Why don't you tell me how you developed your skills?
HeartBreak2291 4 months ago
@thejesusfreak919 Mozart was the worst out of most classic composers in my opinion. Bach, chopin, rachmaninov, horowitz, liszt, I'm not even a fan of beethoven, but he had more of an impact on me. Mozart was surounded by music growing up, his ears adapted, it's what mammals do.
davidomgwork 6 months ago
@davidomgwork
To be fair, though, Mozart died at a really young age. :0
HeartBreak2291 6 months ago
@davidomgwork Practically everyone is surrounded by music growing up, it doesn't make everyone composers. As much as I would love to compose music, I just don't have the talent for it.
And adaptation doesn't make us amazing at tasks. >.>
josefopeda 5 months ago
@HeartBreak2291 Talent doesn't exist? Really now? People can differentiate between a musical prodigy (say a piano player) over a person who "worked hard to be good".
People have talents and they can work on those talents to be better at them, or they can just put them back in the trunk. Like singing and dancing. There are people who just can't damned well dance, or damned well sing, no matter how much training they dedicate. And one person cannot dictate the existence of talent.
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HeartBreak2291 5 months ago
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@josefopeda
You didn't provide any evidence to support your claim, other than your word alone. Out of all the people who argued against my comment, yours is the least convincing. :/
Do you really believe that you are such a reliable source that people will just believe you for speaking?
HeartBreak2291 5 months ago
@GabijaSIGFox Was ever an aircraft hangar ever put to better use?? I think not!!
MultiGeraghty 5 months ago
This is my favorite song buy them. It is so beautiful!
pointedancelover1 1 year ago
5 young, good-looking people playing technically-impeccable pianos in a sunlit room, looking way to emotional for their own good while playing an abbreviated version of a great piece? I'll take old, grouchy people hunched over a piano playing the long, "boring" version any day.
Well, points for trying, but I don't like this rendition at all, the arrangement could have been so much better. They're too often practically playing in unison, not creating an orchestral sound - and 3:06 is horrible.
ArtD42 1 year ago
@ArtD42 Wow! So much verbal diarrohea. Are you one of the "old grouchy people"? Or are you just a mouthy know-it-all who failed even 1st grade music exam??
MultiGeraghty 1 year ago
@MultiGeraghty Did I say you aren't allowed to enjoy it? I am not one of those people who feel they're "morally superior" because I like the other version better. It just doesn't suit my tastes, and I have a right to express that disapproval.
ArtD42 1 year ago
united its time to fly
dual757 1 year ago
i just seriously got the chills!
NewToThis2010 1 year ago
Why did they skip huge parts of the song?
seizetheday224 1 year ago
I don't understand... where are the mics? Is this recorded from 10 meters above? Sound seems close to me :/
TheScent2007 1 year ago
what the hell... how do you choose a favorite between 5 people playing the same song on 5 different pianos?
blackspider0 1 year ago
Sure beats the "Jackson 5"
dograap19 1 year ago
@dograap19 Yeah, but what about the Osmonds?
MultiGeraghty 1 year ago
2:54 - 2:59
holy....shit....:O
TotalZukoFan 1 year ago
the 5 people who have so far voted ths video down are just jealous and retarded and should not be allowed to comment on music ever again. This is UH-MAZING!
bellarmine246 1 year ago
Positively ORGASMIC!!!
MultiGeraghty 1 year ago 2
Music is not fast food, and ought not to be marketed as such. Most of what they play is so reprocessed (musically) to be rather unrecognizeable, compared to the originals. But it’s always nice to hear a bunch of perfectly in-tune-with-each-other and matched pianos sounding together. Only about a third of this arrangement was exciting. Also worth noting: ***NO 3 B’s*** on their albums.
schwei56 1 year ago
Everytime I hear this song, I think of United Airlines :-D
DeadRaymanWalking 1 year ago
i love the 5 browns! i play on the same line of pianos that they do~steinway. i wont play on anything else!
barrelfreak7 1 year ago
man! they skipped half of the parts. A condensed version. I would have loved to hear it all.
KarenBilson 1 year ago
@KarenBilson its just the video. they play the whole thing on their CD
istheshiz 1 year ago
5 pianos?
that's cheating
magiortopspin 1 year ago
Ruined.
Vermontification 1 year ago
Oh goodness, these people are amazing.
tennnisfunk 1 year ago
2:25 is so captivating ... you can feel the emotion through the whole song.
gabrielgamers 1 year ago
That must take really good timing.
katielojo1 1 year ago
theu sick
brancool88 1 year ago
i wish i were as good as them!!!
i got a lot of practicing
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pendesk86 1 year ago
Typical from a no-neck, no-talent.
jballew37 1 year ago
deez niggaz iz gansta
tetsuyaofdeath 2 years ago 2
@tetsuyaofdeath Whatchu talkin' about Willis??
MultiGeraghty 1 year ago
This group of pianists was okay they play real good the music was together not to loud and it wasn't boring it was very jazzy and classical
tyreakablakkty 2 years ago
So unfair.
They're ridiculously talented AND they're gorgeous.
So.
Unfair.
chaoticpython695 2 years ago 45
They started when they were really little, they were home schooled & thats like all they did when they were little, (they're my cousins). But all 5 of them go to Julliard so they are pretty amazing :)
Krissieboo6689 2 years ago 2
@chaoticpython695 I guess it's all in the genes.
seizetheday224 1 year ago
I saw them perform in my hometown last week. They played Holst, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Debussy...
They even did an encore piece: "In the Hall of Mountain King" by Edward Grieg.
Simply entrancing. That's all I can say.
mikecucuk 2 years ago
they're a great ensemble, you can hardly tell there are 5 pianos!
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titanicpiano14 2 years ago
united airlines jinglee!
boupontius 2 years ago
i was gonna say they look like they're on ecstacy, but some of you have dirtier minds
okonh0wp 2 years ago
wished they would have went with Bosendorfer intead of signing with Steinway :(
cubspiano 2 years ago
Steinways are better imo
Crad4DRC 2 years ago
than bosendorfer?
cubspiano 2 years ago
yes in my opinion. Steinways are the more versatile. However there are some bosendorfers I enjoy and some steinways I enjoy. Both are EXCELLENT! However, If i had to choose one to own in my household I would probably look at a Steinway as my first choice.
Crad4DRC 2 years ago
I'm just a dumb Irishman, so What's a Bosendorfer??
KyranGeraghty 2 years ago
the rolls royce of pianos
cubspiano 2 years ago
....this is the best version of Rhapsody in Blue that I've ever heard...
betomax16 2 years ago 2
I have heard better versions than this one...
thessalic0rose 2 years ago
might have been the best ever if they played the whole thing, still sounds great tho!
cubspiano 2 years ago
Yeah! Well, I still believe that George would be mucho impressed with this beautifully performed mini-version by 3 angels and 2 guys!!
KyranGeraghty 2 years ago
saw them live tonight. ahhhhhhhhhmazing.
twisterbabe009 2 years ago 2
Like all the orgasms I ever had put together! All 3 of them!!!
KyranGeraghty 2 years ago
Any day upon which I do not listen to this wonderful interpretation of Rhapsody in blue, is a wasted day. Thank God for Youtube!!
KyranGeraghty 2 years ago
Fabulous. I love the ecstatic, not to say orgasmic look on the faces of the beautiful girls at times during this piece!!
KyranGeraghty 2 years ago
Dunno what that all means, but I agree
KyranGeraghty 2 years ago
Ariduanaish said, "George Gershwin is, in many ways the musical embodiment of that jazz that dictate school in 900. This execution is excellent, there are all fundamental aspects of Gershwin's music that makes it so innovative and popular. Excellent." Does that help? :)
pianogirl049 2 years ago
This makes you forget that R.i. B was written for piano AND orchestra! WOW!!
KyranGeraghty 2 years ago
lol they play a short version cuz the original is about 16 minutes long
BKIING92 2 years ago 3
So???
KyranGeraghty 2 years ago
I don't feel like you get much more out of five pianos on this than you would out of a two piano version.
They could be doing more with each one.
blueslystone 2 years ago 3
It might be the sound quality of it. I'm sure if you saw it live then there would be a massive amount of power produced by the five instruments working together.
Noxior 2 years ago 4
GET A GRIP!!
KyranGeraghty 2 years ago
five pianos are better than 1!!!
jzukit 2 years ago 2
$500,000 dollars worth of steinways right there
abalabazn 2 years ago 44
@abalabazn lol yea at least that...
thexspyder1 1 year ago