Authors, Celebrities, Politicians, Public Figures that love Classical Music?

Emmanuel Macron loves Schumann and Liszt

They ARE authors, celebrities, politicians, public figures who love classical music!

Condoleezza Rice only listens to classical music and is a well regard pianist herself. She loves Brahms and Mozart.

Attached are Rice and Yo Yo Ma playing Schumann's Fantasiestücke

R2 chill out, and either meaningfully contribute or get lost

Eric Porter's Desert Island Discs.

Alec Baldwin.

Ehud Barak

R6 Didn't Alec Baldwin support the New York Philharmonic? I think he loved Mahler

[quote] Jefferson, Beethoven and Idols’ Feet of Clay

“who”, not “that”, OP.

Phyllis Diller

[quote]Condoleezza Rice only listens to classical music and is a well regard pianist herself. She loves Brahms and Mozart.

Codoleezza Rice is a vile piece of shit.

R11? Really? Any links? I did not know that about her!

R12 Thank you for sharing your views on her, but can we please keep this more about music?

Hitler loved Wagner and Bruckner

[quote] can we please keep this more about music?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an avid opera fan. Her best friend and ideological rival, Antonin Scalia, also loved opera. There is even an opera about their friendship.

Dr. Ben Carson loves classical music.

He he was known for playing classical music while performing surgery. He would also teach the staff who/what/when/where of the pieces and recordings.

[quote]Authors, Celebrities, Politicians, Public Figures that love Classical Music?

And the award for Worst Abuse of English, July 20, 2024, goes to, at the DL, naturally......

OP of "Authors, Celebrities, Politicians, Public Figures that love Classical Music?"

Oh, dear. Oh, dear. OH, dear. And a half oh, dear for tabloid headline failure.

DL fav Madeline Kahn was a classically trained soprano who loved opera.

[quote][R11]? Really? Any links? I did not know that about her!

She was a classical pianist, r13. She would perform with orchestras in different cities. When I was in high school, my best friend (who took piano lessons) went to see her and went backstage afterwards to get his program signed. She was very friendly and spent time with him asking about his favorite composers, etc.

Do local celebrities count?

Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt released several classical albums

Nina Simone

Sir Edward Heath was an accomplished pianist and an amateur conductor

Wonderful story.......... The boy who said," Wow."

[quote]Today it seems as "classy and sophisticated"

It was always seen that way. The poor had folk music, they weren't listening to Beethoven when he was around. Not that they were ever even wanted at his performances.

I don;t entirely agree, r27.

Mozart's "The Magic Flute" was popular with (and premiered for) the non-wealthy, and of course almost everyone in Italy in the nineteenth century, rich and poor, knew and liked Verdi's most famous arias. The opera used to be a more democratic venue.

It’s interesting how often in movies a love of classical music is seen as a symptom of villainy. Hannibal Lecter is seen listening to Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Hume Cronyn in Brute Force plays Wagner to muffle the sounds of beatings.

David Hyde Pierce is a vary talented classical pianist.

R26’s video made me cry.

R25 - was Heath a f...

Er, former prime minister?

R32 that's all speculation

Dorothy and Sophia went to the symphony.

“The Boy Who Said ‘Wow!’”

Beethoven was poor, ignoramus at r27.