TGIF: Some more Victor Borge brilliance January 16, 2009
Posted by Jill (@bonnjill) in Fun stuff, TGIF.trackback
OK, now that I’ve gotten started watching Victor Borge videos on YouTube I can’t stop. Here are a couple more showing off his talent for humor and classical piano.
The Muppet Show was a “don’t miss” show for me when I was growing up. The Muppet Show was a television program featuring a cast of Muppets that was produced by Jim Henson and his team of Muppeteers from 1976 to 1981. The idea behind The Muppet Show was that the Muppets had a weekly show that would have famous human guest stars in a kind of vaudeville theater atmosphere.
Here is Victor Borge playing Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 and trading puns with my favorite Muppet of all-time, Rolf the Dog. Since I was learning how to play the piano at that time the show aired Rolf was a natural choice for me.
And here he is performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Bobby Benson and the Baby Band.
And last but not least, here he is performing the William Tell Overture backwards (from “The Best of Borge”).
Musings from an overworked translator 
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