Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - P
When that a cetain absurd air of pompous self-importance lingers around, it’s only a matter of seconds before eyes roll. For #Debussy it...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 14, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - O
Contorting fingers in quite a popular #pastime at the #piano. Virtuoso pianists in the twentieth century were especially fond of what...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 13, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - N
#Words usually dictate - that is their downfall. Too often we see or hear words and act according to their instuction, or repeat them,...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 12, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Piano Alphabet - M
#Meditation has somehow been adopted into #trend. Social media is flooded with meditation tutorials, books give us a run down of the...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 12, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Piano Alphabet - L
#Learning from #larks.... Composers often quote birdsong in their works - and many were avid ramblers and early risers too. COVID-19 has...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 10, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Piano Alphabet - K
Pianos - #Klaviers - were not very popular. They were unable to match the power of harpsichords, and clavichord were already popular...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 10, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Piano Alphabet - J
#Smiling is good for us. I’ve been assured it’s a fact that has been backed up with plenty of science. So why are classical concerts...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 8, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - I
Art is an #illusion. I feel very strongly that the #comfort that art brings must in some ways be linked to its ability to give a chance...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 7, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - H
H is for #hybrid. I am going to say something contraversial: Purity is overvalued! In art at least, there is no such thing as a pure...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 6, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Piano Alphabet - G
G is for #grip. The more we know something to be #true, the more we must hold on to it - grip it and not let any distractions allow it...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - F
As society the unquestioning trust for the written word, and the weight collectively given to common opinion (or the ‘normal way’ of...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - E
We’ve heard a lot recently about what people consider ‘essential’ and ‘non-essential’. I can’t help feeling that the opinions,...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 3, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Pianist Alphabet - D
Turning to letter D I reflected on the idea that in times of difficulty perhaps the most important thing we can dare to do is to #dream. ...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 2, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Pianist Alphabet: C
The letter C conjures up a whole wealth of associations, both musical and not. After thinking about many contenders for this post I...
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@MariaPianist
- Apr 1, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Pianist Alphabet: B
B is for Bonnie, my half-Siamese cat, insisted on being a #lockdown co-worker to help me make this video. In all seriousness though, B...
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@MariaPianist
- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Pianist Alphabet: A
It's the second surreal week of '#Lockdown' in the United Kingdom. No one knows when restrictions will be lifted, but it does not seem...
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@MariaPianist
- Mar 23, 2020
- 1 min
Don't let COVID-19 destroy our compassion, empathy and solidarity
How surreal everything feels. How divisive and hostile parts of society have become to age, profession, race, lifestyle in just a matter...
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@MariaPianist
- Mar 4, 2020
- 3 min
Recharge and Reboot: A Musician's Perspective
Music depends on routine. Applied to one of the highest creative activities of humankind that statement feels like sacrilege - or at...
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@MariaPianist
- Mar 4, 2020
- 5 min
Narcissus's Fall: Russia's Reimagining the Rose & Nightingale
The image of the rose and nightingale is deeply intertwined with Russia’s cultural identity. Look only to Russian fine art in the...
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@MariaPianist
- Feb 29, 2020
- 4 min
An Imperial Stage, a Mariinsky Fairytale
Turning off onto the embankment of the Fontanka the hubbub of Saint Petersburg’s Nevsky Prospekt almost immediately melts away. In that...
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