She Plays For Herself
I watched The Pianist a week ago. I thought it was excellent. Every time I watch someone gifted play piano I think to myself that if I could play I wouldn't need an audience. It would be enough to play piano just for myself.
I read somewhere that the piano was a percussion instrument. Markus (who is quite a pianist himself) agreed at least in part to this. But I don't understand how something like Chopin could be described more as percussion than melody.
I will never forget, however, that once many moons ago I saw a Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba at a place called The Catalina Bar & Grill in Hollywood. His hands moved so fast and with such rhythmic force that one could not deny that the piano was, for him at least, a drum as well.
A friend of mine also plays piano though you wouldn't know it (she doesn't really force it on anyone). But she plays for herself, not for others, just as I would if I could.
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