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Re: Greatest Classical Conductors and Musicians
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 12:03 pm
by Fido
Brian, you seem to have missed the guitarists list when sending them to Lew.
Re: Greatest Classical Conductors and Musicians
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 8:58 pm
by Brian
Lew said that he would make a separate page for the guitarists list, I presume because it's George's list. I would have thought that would have gone up by now. I'll PM him to make sure that he didn't forget.
Re: Greatest Classical Conductors and Musicians
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 10:11 pm
by Tim
I know they are not musicians per se but I have come up with the lists for ballet dancers, split by gender. Criteria were the usual: influence, acclaim, popularity.
Male ballet dancers
1. Rudolf Nureyev
2. Mikhail Baryshnikov
3. Vaslav Nijinsky
4. Erik Bruhn
5. Jules Perrot
6. Carlos Acosta
7. Vladimir Vasiliev
8. Anthony Dowell
9. Anton Dolin
10. Vakhtang Chabukiani
11. Roberto Bolle
12. Serge Lifar
13. Gaétan Vestris
14. Konstantin Sergeyev
15. Edward Villella
Female ballet dancers (ballerinas)
1. Anna Pavlova
2. Margot Fonteyn
3. Galina Ulanova
4. Marie Taglioni
5. Maya Plisetskaya
6. Natalia Makarova
7. Carlotta Grisi
8. Sylvie Guillem
9. Alicia Alonso
10. Maria Tallchief
11. Pierina Legnani
12. Suzanne Farrell
13. Yvette Chauviré
14. Fanny Elssler
15. Misty Copeland
16. Carla Fracci
17. Alessandra Ferri
18. Alicia Markova
19. Gelsey Kirkland
20. Ekaterina Maximova
Re: Greatest Classical Conductors and Musicians
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 10:44 pm
by Brian
I don't know much about ballet dancers, but I imagine those are good lists. Ballet dancers are kind of a miscellaneous category - not musicians, and not really athletes either. They fit here as well as anywhere.