Even if you've heard Vivaldi's Four Seasons performed by a flock of penguins at midnight on the North Pole, beaten like cube steak on Caribbean steel drums, serenaded by a troupe of mimes or played next to a plate of green eggs and ham, I know you've never heard the Summer concerto from Vivaldi's Four Seasons done the way the all-women classical music comedy act Salut Salon does it in the video above. This now viral video has made the Hamburg-based piano quartet world famous. And lest you think Salut Saloon can't play "straight-up" classical, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tABGeAcga-M Read more: Talented, Silly Classical Musicians Compete to Play Their Instruments in the Weirdest Way Possible (TTW)
Jennifer Hambrick unites her extensive backgrounds in the arts and media and her deep roots in Columbus to bring inspiring music to central Ohio as Classical 101’s midday host. Jennifer performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago before earning a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.