Happy Birthday, by Beethoven? Bach? Mozart? - Nicole Pesce on piano

Nicole Pesce in concert at Tempe Center for the Arts, not only showed her virtousity, but gave us a taste of her creativity and humor. In this clip, she speculates on how the master composers may have played one of today's most popular songs.
June 24, 2011

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Music

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• Happy
• Birthday

[adamgadk]

This is just an almost an exact copy of Victor Borges happy birthday variations from very early time.. this clip is from 1951.. do a search for Victor borger and happy birthday.

[callron1]

@adamgadk I am a fan of Victor Borge, and have seen most of his work, including the 1951 Happy Birthday bit. Nicole Pesce, may have been inspired for doing the Happy Birthday by Victor, but I never saw Victor lay back, upside down, with head under the keyboard, whily playing Mozart. If you have a link to that clip, please post it here. For more sampling of Nicole's talent and creativity, check out her "Flight of the Bumblebee" Thanks, Ron

[terez27]

The "Bach" sounds more like the Chopin should have. If still not quite.

[dbdbdb4]

Golden fingers....who?

Nicole.....

[meetska]

@adamgadk no it's not.  She was inspired by the idea, but picked entirely different pieces of music to parody. I, too, am a big fan of Victor Borge, but she freshened it up. The Chopin and Bach pieces are entirely different than what Victor Borge did. Even the Moonlight Sonata piece is different in her interpretation.

[IAmVincentLiu]

@MrBeschissen Polonaise in A, Op.40, No.1 "Military"

[MrBeschissen]

what the name of the chopin song?

[DasKindespiel]

La de Bach, parece Brahms

[VinStaP]

Наверное она была под впечатлением фильма "Amadeus"

[tony265982]

Genius!!!

[luveydovey93]

WOW. She made Bach seem so much more talented than all the other ones. Haha. IMPRESSIVE!! :)