any pianists?

Published by: mike on 30th Aug 2009 | View all blogs by mike

Any pianists? (a re-post)  It seems not to have appeared.

Published by: mike on Sunday 30th August 2009 11:08am
There seems to be a few pianists on 'Word Cloud'  
I cannot really claim to be one of these,  but find practising the piano relaxing.   I was only attemting the 'papillions' because they were in a music magazine that comes out every couple of months.   I have gone back to some simple Mozart pieces.  Simple Mozart?
Did anybody watch the proms a few nights ago when Lang Lang played?
In the interval someone called Petroc Trelawney  spoke of the Chinese Cultural  Revolution when pianos were smashed to pieces.  They were, for the Chinese, the extreme symbol of 'Western bourgoisie decadence'  Things have changed completely and 25,000,000 pianos re bring constructed.  How weird!  There was a surreal shot of a huge piano factory.
I argued with a someone from Singapore over Lang Lang  when he played at the Proms, the previous year, and claimed that the Chinese were coming.   I argued that the triumph had been Mozart's and not Lang Lang's.

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  • Bren
    by Bren 2 years ago
    Yes I saw the Concert. Did you see the programme from China about the way parents push the children and pay for lessons and they practice piano for hours every day - in order to become concert pianists. It was really scary.
    Yes, I agree Mike it is Mozart's achievement.
    We have a piano but sadly I cannot play. I can't bring myself to get rid of it. Occasionally someone will play after a dinner party.
    The chinese are coming in every sense. Re the cannabis factory.

    Bren
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