Chopin Piano sonata Funeral March, Op.35, no.2 by Maksim

I'd never heard of this guy until about an hour ago looking for Lizst HR 2. I'm sure someone else has compared his general look (and single-namedness) to Liberace.

What he looks like isn't really relevant--I love a performer in something other than black-tie (it makes the stuff at least look more inviting). The question is whether he is good. He does this ok, but it is dramatic enough without all the extra drama he creates with some strange tempo choices.

Well it's a holdover from the way classical music used to be presented and performed, for the bourgeois and often at the expense of the regular people.

I think performing in regular attire makes a social statement.

How can it make any type of statement if the very people he's performing for are said "bourgeois"?

I'm watching it, and I'm not bourgeois.

I mean the concert goers, how could he hope to make a statement to them when they were all what the statement was against ?

That's the point.

Protesters usually protest, if they're smart, in the vicinity of those or that which they are protesting.

Well, before delving any further into this argument I'm just gonna go ahead and say I disagree with you in that his not wearing formal clothing had no social statement behind it, in my opinion.

Dressing formally doesn't neccesarily make you a snob. That's just 1 piece of a puzzle. Now if you dress formally, look down on lower level musicians, and have an arrogant attitude THEN you may be a snob.

But what's more important; the clothes or the music? If he was sitting there in formal attire or butt nekkid, would the music sound any different?? Just saying.

And I'm just saying, simply because he isn't in hest best clothing how does that make him care for the music anymore than everyone else there?