The piano

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Ferdinand Ries: Piano Trio and Sextets (Hyperion) | Norman ... (The Critic Magazine)

While writing a book about Beethoven (to be published next year), I recoiled from many of the pupils, acolytes, secretaries, amanuenses…

Ries stuck it out until 1805 when the French army reached Vienna. He went back to Bonn and wound up eventually in London, where he helped found the Philharmonic Society. He was a tireless composer of ephemeral works. It makes you wonder if this is the kind of joy that music awoke in the informal 1820s gatherings of London’s Philharmonic Society. Ries, so far as I can tell, never made up stories about Beethoven or made him out to be anything other than he was — a towering genius with a terrible temper.

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After a decade of lowering barriers to art, Piano. Push. Play. rolls on (OPB News)

The interactive art project, which installs public pianos throughout Portland, celebrates its tenth anniversary and unveils a new batch of “community making ...

In the past decade, the project has grown in scope and size. “Most of the pianos you see—and I can tell you from personal experience—in hotels and things all have signs that say: ‘Please do not play this piano. It forged partnerships with organizations like Portland Art Museum and Portland Parks and Recreation. The group has also received funding from prominent musicians like jazz artist Esperanza Spalding. “I ended up getting stuck on this phrase: ‘Black Is Love.’ I wanted to put it on a pristine background instead of something black, so we went with a fully white piano,” he recalls. It really spans all of time.” She just needed some help moving furniture, and I helped to push the piano, hence the name.” McGeorge is a trained musician, but her instrument of choice is the piano. “It’s timeless. “The bench [has] tiger stripes,” says McGeorge as she shows off the instrument. They are in courtyards amongst the city. Under any circumstances do not play this piano.’ It’s not for you. “They are in your public parks.

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