Muziek - Music

Het is eeuwen geleden dat ik achter een piano zat, dus de oefening ben ik kwijt. Maar goed, op verschillende grotere stations staat een piano, of in dit geval een vleugel. En iedereen kan er op spelen, en dit onder het mom van ‘deel je talent’.

Dit is de vleugel op het Centraal Station in Amsterdam. Hij staat wat in een verloren hoekje, maar er zijn voldoende mensen die hem weten te vinden. De foto is in zwart-wit want het licht was erg verschillend van aard, en bovendien zijn de toetsen en bladmuziek zwart-wit.

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It is ages ago since I sat behind a piano, so in the mean time I lost my practice. But well, at different bigger railway stations there is a piano, in this case a grand piano. And everybody can play it, under the cloak of ‘share your talent’.

This is the grand piano in the Centraal Station in Amsterdam. It is somewhat lost is a small corner, but there are sufficient people who find it and play it. The photo is for different reasons in black and white: the light sources were of different quality, the keys are black and white as is sheet music.

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In all musical links a (grand) piano is played.

One of my favourite pianoconcertos is Tchaikovsky’s in B flat. Here played by the Portsmouth Sinfonia, world’s worst orchestra (note the piano concerto was transposed to A, as the ‘musicians’ decided there were too many flats). www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIm8RZ-WJBA

The same concerto properly played by one of the world’s better orchestras: Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie with Anna Fedorova and Yves Abel in the Concertgebouw, one of the best concerthalls in the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNfpMRSCFPE

What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me
Abba: Thank you for the music www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dcbw4IEY5w

To live without my music
Would be impossible to do.
In this world of troubles,
My music pulls me through
John Miles: Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb6XtyFNawM