A couple weeks ago, Opera Chic has awarded the first Levine Award for the wackiest conductor hairstyle to Claudio Abbado's cute 1970s moptop.
This week, we honor the super-cool Vladimir Ashkenazy: in these vidcaps (bad, I know, I totally win the Zapruder Award for suckiest shakiest handheld video ev4r) from a 1960s London concert he sports a truly awesome, savage, uncontrollable cowlick on the back of his skull.
Because, we assume, in the 1960s for the kewl kidz combs were clearly something only Lusers used, with a capital "L". All those notes flying off of one's brainium cavity apparently have an adverse effect to one's hair, at least according to the Russian-born maestro. Or maybe he had already traveled to Iceland and his hair was just frozen like that. Anyway, we dig. Jimmy "Hair Bear" Levine would love it.
