Piano
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I am truly listening to Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was born in Russia, on the first of April of 1873 into a musical family, and began playing the piano at the age of four. He spent many years living in New York City. Thinking of him as a neighbor, gives me a wonderful sensation, knowing that such an iconic human lived…
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Love is…
when, on June 13 of 2018, Martha Argerich enters the stage of the Esplanade Concert Hall to perform with Darío Alejandro Ntaca and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at the Singapore International Piano Festival, and the audience applauds incessantly.
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in this moment
…listening to the “Aeolian Harp” — a piece from 1923, by Henry Cowell (1897-1965). It is one of the first piano pieces composed for extended piano techniques, including plucking and sweeping of the actual piano strings. Black tea goes well with it.
Sila Blume 