Top 5 Page Turn FAILS During Classical Performances! 

Not as bad as when I knocked over my music stand and it had a domino effect on the others.

That guy at the end did a great job, and smiling, too.

I can see why some pianists have ipads in front of them instead during concerts

The one guy who switched to the piano music when his fell did really well 😂

Okay, fails in the sense of goofs, I get it. But in each instance, the affected performer(s) recovered and finished the piece, a mark of professionalism. They are winners!

Ling ling can play the whole orchestra and still turn all the pages

2:20 This guy turned a fail into a great moment. Incredible attitude.

To all page turners, *you had one job.*

Note to everyone saying that you need to memorize the music: in many cases you, as the accompanist, need to have the score & be following along so that in the event the soloist loses their spot or makes a mistake, you can help them to recover. Having the score is part of the job.

Love the last one, how it’s no big deal and it’s all fun. That’s what it should be about.

I genuinely hate page turns

I’ve knocked over my stand which hit the guy in front of me in the head and he dropped his violin on the floor and it broke 😭

It's called a carpet lmao. And to all the people saying you need to memorize. Accompanists don't have the duty of learning it. The soloist, yes. But most times the pianist doesn't have to learn it.

2:20 the 500 IQ big brain cello player them peripheral skills on point

The bass in the second clip is literally me. We had a concert with our orchestra outside (playing tangos and stuff) and I was the only bass and - somehow all my clips and magnets didn't work, so during La Bamba, when I actually just wanted to turn the page, all my notes fell off the music stand and right into the orchestra. I could play it without notes of course, but it was so embarrassing to recieve my notes after the concert from, like, first or second violins who found them under their chairs, with an "Well, they somehow flew to me, I think they like me." and a grin. xD

I love the last one, the pianist is so humorous! I think he coped with the accident really well🤣

Once when i was playing for a competition my music flew off the stand and I was the only French Horn so i almost started crying...

Look how professional they are! The manifestasion of real maturity! SALUTÉ!

I once went to see my professor's piano concert. She messed up turning the page, panicked, threw the whole thing away and did it by heart. Felt a newfound kinship with her after that.

I love how they recovered it and keep moving on. Well done!!

LMAO the double sheets fail

Most people: *need the music sheet in order to carry on playing the piece* Percussionists: "Guys, why do we need this again?"

Thanks for putting the name of the pieces!

I'm actually incredibly impressed by how well all of them handled it. Considering the situation and how bad it could have gone, they all recovered quite smoothly!

0:04 Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet, Op. 100 0:30 Carman Fantasy 0:46 Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Tauno Marttinen’s Symphony No. 4 1:10 Lars Vogt & Christian Tetzlaff Concert at Sendessall Bremen 2:10 Rodney Leninberger Grace under pressure

As a young accompanist, I really appreciate this video. In the past, I have goofed up page turns and felt like the world had ended but seeing these people do it and how they recovered has taught me something

#1 Rest #2 Improvisation #3 Unexpected #4 Nonchalantly in mastery #5 Epic - Allegro con fuoco The best growing up in the history of music~ ❤️

I think the page turners have a big responsibility, hats off to them !

I remember last year during a performance, I went to change my page just as there was a cymbal crash, which blew my sheets everywhere. Good thing I had everything memorized 😅

2:22 i was hoping the chair or the person wouldnt fall over LOL

Just the fact they can read those pages in the first place makes them incredibly gifted to me.

Loved how they handled it. Though committed to excellence they obviously enjoy their music and don’t take themselves too, too seriously.

Panic, existential meltdown, muscle memory, relieved laughter.

My own page turn fail: I was accompanying the school choir at high school graduation, and the AC just kept blowing all my music off the piano. I was frequently trying to improvise with one hand while reaching behind me to snag my music. Nobody sitting nearby thought it necessary to help me in any way. It was a grand ol time it was.

The man at the end seems so kind and loving

Ah, NOW we see the importance of having your score copied, hole punched, and in a binder. But these were great recoveries. Good for them!

the third is legitimately hilarious ahahaha

Wow..though they failed but they showed professionality... so great

I've been doing choir for so long I almost forgot what a blessing it is to just turn your pages whenever.

People think classical musicians are too up tight. Really though, when silly things go wrong we just do what we can, and cover the rest with a little humor. These are funny, and so relatable.

duuuuude @ 0:18 wtf was the page turner even reading?

wow it is nice to see that we are all human after all. Great video!

absolutely pro! It's not always easy to recover after you mess up, even more so when it's in front of a live audience. Respect and props to all these guys! The show must go on!

My music never fell but my last performance in my University Symphony I turned to the last page where I had an eight measure solo and the page wasn’t there. It turned out it was in the practice room. I asked the flute player next to me to play it since she had it queued in her copy. Conductor noticed it wasn’t an oboe and I lost my seat. My teacher assignment me to community band for a semester. I was upset but my Jr. high Band Director was there. He moved me from Clarinet to Oboe. I loved that man. Turned out bit to be so bad.

The last one xD

They're only human after all!

I liked how they just kept going and kept it professional. Mistakes happen, but that doesn't mean you have to let them bog you down so much. 🎻🎹🥁

Shout-out to the pianist's page turner who became the violinist's page restorer, and to the pianist and the cellist at the end, for their wonderfully good humor in resuming after the pianist's page fell. Great video!!

this just reminds me of myself well except for the part where i'm playing an instrument well

Coolste Reaktion am Schluss 👏😂 uns sind mal bei einer Hochzeit im Freien sämtliche Noten weggeflogen 🙈

What the hell was wrong with the guy in the #1. He totally yeeted the paper out of the concert hall 😂😂😂

腹がよじれる程笑わせてもらった。お姉さん、本当にあっぱれ。対応力が素晴らしい

Thanks you save my life ears.

The videos above are the reasons why I ALWAYS make two-sided copies, punch holes, and put them in a three-ring binder.

I hope to one day achieve the mental stability of the last two in this compilation. I once missed a page turn by .5 seconds and waited for a full four measures to join back in. I was playing viola in a quartet. us violas are so prone to clumsy mistakes.

Brings back funny big band and orchestra memories. But to those page turners... "you had one job"! LoL

I just shortened my life with 50 years bc this stressed me too much lol....thx yt recommendations.

Okay so one time I was accompanying someone and all my music fell off and someone from the audience came and picked it up. (This was at college). BUT the clarinet player I was accompanying oddly did not have good peripheral vision, so she didn't see the guy picking up the music until he was literally standing right next to her and it scared her half to death! Not a good experience xD

2:28 the way he smile just made my day lol

Right here man's vibing in a whole video first he starts off as a pianist, then he decides to play bass too, then at #3 he gets a little older and hes at the far left, at #2 he goes back to piano, finally at #1 he's clearly decided piano was his passion and hes really good so boom his career in a video.

Que artista el último como se nota donde está la maestría y hacerte un fallo algo bonito

2:10 kids, that is why you don't turn on the inside of the page.

This is not a fail..this is..The show must go on!!😁

最初と最後の演奏のタイミング合わせるところめっちゃ好き

This is only my personal opinion: I THINK that it is a must for every professional musician to memorize every musical piece that he/she is going to perform in a concert lest unfortunate mishaps may happen during the show, at least he/she would not be in such a dilemma. Unnecessary disturbance from the audience is annoying and some musicians can be easily distracted, otherwise they would not stop playing in the middle of the performance and as for some, they are so focused and absorbed with the music they are playing on and enjoyed in performing it that they could never even hear nor be bothered by such kind of distraction (ringtones).

I’ve been playing piano for 5 months and I had to become a page tuner for a professional for about an hour and I stg if that wasn’t about the most stressful thing I’ve ever done Edit: I’ve been playing French Horn for two years so I can read music and the music had a vocal line so I was following that but turns out I had no idea how to follow a vocal line

Even with the page turn fails, these musicians are all still fantastic!!!

I love how they all have fun with it. Hey accidents happen, and they can be a great fun thing!

#2 was seamless

2:07 i laughed so hard

Всякое в жизни бывает) молодцы как-то подстраиваются👍

I saw the conductor Dennis Russel Davies perform a Philip Glass piano concerto, and he turned the page too swiftly, and the pages lunged into the air, and the. He grabbed them with one hand, put them back in the right order and kept playing, without skipping a single note in the concerto. It almost made the performance more impressive.

0:35 whats the name of the song?

How about performers who suddenly laugh over inside jokes? I was in a chorale group and I would stop singing because I'm fighting my self from laughing over my mates.

The pianist in the last one is my accompanist, he’s a great guy to work with :)

I was very fortunate and privileged in my life to be a page turner for Diedre Irons, which was in the Great Hall in Christchurch New Zealand in the late 90s. It was an absolutely incredible experience especially considering the calibre of the musicians involved. It was the Brahms G Minor Quartet of which the violinist was Jan Tawroszewics, Cellist wss formally the head of the Bulshoi Ballet Dr. Sasha Ivashkin, and Rainer Moog Viola. Every artist was of the highest order. My teacher, Diedre Irons, studied under Rudolf Serkin, and would continue in his path.

You literally had one job👏

As a self-taught musician that never learned to sight read, I’m honestly impressed that they can even keep their place in the score while playing some of the more difficult and fast paced pieces. I assume some rote memorization is helpful, which is why when the sheet music falls over they can still keep playing from memory.

Great Art. I Love It. Its showing us WE ARE HUMANS with ❤️.

I am a collaborative pianist and this is why i always turn my own pages! I tape in pages or parts of pages to facilitate pageturns, trade hands, etc.

The last couple was really cute whe they smiled

No. 5 is so cute :xxx

You Had One Job... ...Wow!! One Word, three letters, and It repeats!

I love it when they make the best of the situation.

what’s the name of the 4th music?

2018: 2019: *Wanna see pianists mess up their page turns?*

The last one is so cute. Both musicians smiled and knew exactly when to resume playing together.

I play piano and I always prefere to memorize the piece when it's possible, also because of that, but mainly because I play better without partiture, I get myself free to feel the song and interpret it better.

What's the second song, the one that the video uploader didn't write the name for?

I still remember what the Wind did to me.....

I love how #2 just went straight near the piano guy so not to stop playing

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why musicians know every single note by heart.

Funny - I know the cellist in the last one.....

wet dream of performers

Those last two fails were so well recovered 🎻🎹🤣

They're ability to not lose composure, and great recoveries make those even more memorable performances. I say BRA - VO!

That is why LEARN the peices 😊

Why not used a binder? And heavier grade paper? Problem solved.

It's interesting to see in these moments, memorized or not, where the player takes the piece when they can no longer see what is written. I believe every pause, hiccup, and mistake is a part of what makes a performance beautifully unique.

Yes, yes, yes....I've been there too! But let me just say this, you are redeedemed when you can recover. This is why I always share with my students how important it is to have skill. Technique allows you to elaborate and improv when all else fails. But most importantly, it redeems you!