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There's something very likeable about Magnus Mårtensson. Although tall and impressive under a mop of curly blond hair, he radiates joviality. He is funny, too. Perhaps funny adds a certain likeable charm. When Mårtensson performed his Victor Borgesque act at New York's Swedish Seamen's Church some months ago, the entire room tilted over and fell into his lap: The audience loved him.
"I wrote my own comedies up to 9th grade," says Mårtensson as I catch up with him at Scandinavia House in New York. "After that, I focused on music only.""You're allowed to improvise with comedy, as a matter of fact, you have to improvise. If you don't get any response from the audience you have to make changes. Comedy is, in that aspect, more like jazz. With classical music you must never improvise! And you're never really sure whether or not the audience likes what you're doing when you play classical music. People used to boo or throw tomatoes, today classical music audiences are very polite."See the full content of this document
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Maestro of Comedy
There's something very likeable about Magnus Mårtensson. Although tall and impressive under a mop of curly blond hair, he radiates joviality. He is funny, too. Perhaps funny adds a certain...
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