Forumites might be interested in the following story:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...0/npiano120.xml

I would be interested in hearing him play, I think there's an element of novelty in the fact that he's a cleaner, and it makes a good story. We had ''piano man'' leat year who we were told was a genius and then it turned out that he could'nt play particularly well. As for 'concert pianist', I 've even read that Myleene Klass is one of those! What i'm interested in is, if he is the real deal, just how would he compare to thousands of other people who play at a similar level. Good luck to the chap, I hope he can live up to the hype, and if he can I'd admire him all the more.

I caught the first half hour of the recital webcast from Glasgow Uni Chapel yesterday lunchtime and (though I'm not the best judge) I thought he was way better than novel. In fact he seemed to be really very good indeed.

About 15 minutes in there was a tremendous crash of a slamming door, someone walked across the back of the chapel and there was then another loud bang as they left. It gave me the impression that someone may have been a tad jealous of the attention Aleksander was being given. (I'm pretty sure it wasn't accidental.)

There was supposed to have been another recital tonight; this one also involving the organ scholar but they announced (before yesterday's performance) that it was being postponed to a later, unspecified date.

If someone deliberately slammed a door during a performance, then they're no more than a spoilt brat. What pieces did he play ?

That's really intresting. Thanks for sharing piano63.

Good for him. I hope he succeeds.

Well then, there's hope for all of us

Sorry if that sounded abit nasty, our paths have crossed in the past on more than one occasion and I didn't like what I found

When and where??? If you don't mind me asking - I'm just really interested to know!

She went out with my nephew for a few months - I met her in a nightclub and tried to talk to her because we had the same teacher (this was way before her celebrity status) and she just blanked me - she dropped her best friend who she had been with all through school when she became famous and she didn't deserve it

And her playing isn't actually that good anyway........

It is possible that I have been living on Mars, but who is Myleene Klass?

http://images.google.co.uk/images?sourceid...sa=N&tab=wi

She was in the band Hearsay.

Regretfully, that doesn't help me much. Sorry!!

I'm afraid I've been on Mars as well, Robodoc!

Hearsay was the pop group formed from the winners of the TV programme Pop Stars or whatever (it pre-dated Poop Idol - sorry - typo, but it's funny so I'll leave it in...... and X-factor etc) They didn't last long......the group made from the 5 runners-up, Liberty-X lasted a whole lot longer!!!! Anyone know if they're still going strong?

Thanks for the info chocolatedog!

I'm sure they are still going, I think I heard on our local radio station a few months ago that they were putting in an appearance near here,

everyone together now, "sexyyyyyyyyyyyyyy everything about you so's sexyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"

Myleene is a ''celebrity'' and Classic FM dj, and ever since her pop career fizzled out(after about three weeks) her pr were very keen to emphasise that she was a classically trained musician, and not just an ordinary ''celebrity''... but whenever i've seen her play anything on tv, it is usually the intro to Bachs Toccatta, but just the intro.

She's now also one of the M&S models - she's doing the maternity range as she's pregnant.