Bosendorfer Imperial At Night In My Room
View from my bed!

(On the Desk is the Rachmaninoff Prelude in Eb Major Op23 No6)



Large: http://farm3.static.flickr.com...497_c8b5f6b4e9_o.jpg

Listen to Ruth Slenczynska 'one time' Rachmaninoff 'pupil' play the Prelude and recall her time with Rachmaninoff where she played it for him as a child.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkabuchXmus

Doesn't your piano beckon you to come play when you are in bed?

LJC has met Ruth S, and has posts about her both here and over in the PW forum.

Haven't seen LJC here much. His piano must be beckoning him as well!

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Originally posted by lilylady:
Doesn't your piano beckon you to come play when you are in bed?

Indeed, fierce resistance is necessary, this is because after the night follows another day... But frequently, all resistance is ultimately hopeless:-)

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LJC has met Ruth S, and has posts about her both here and over in the PW forum.

I noticed that thread, this is what lead me to follow up on Ruth Slenczynska, very much to my delight, being a beyond-help Rachmaninoff lover, I obtained her DVD, a rare gem it is too.
I love his art songs and choral music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiSiRAZRCVA&fmt=18

The Situation of Magical Thinking

To some, John Lennon’s piano is sacred.

Magical thinking springs up everywhere. Some irrational beliefs (Santa Claus?) are passed on to us. But others we find on our own...

Last year John Lennon went on tour. He visited, among other locations, Oklahoma City, Waco, New Orleans, and Virginia Tech, spreading a message of peace and love at the sites of tragic events. You may not have recognized him, though, covered in scars and cigarette burns...

On this journey, Lennon assumed the form of a piano, specifically the one on which he composed Imagine. “It gives off his spirit, and what he believed in, and what he preached for many years,” says Caroline True, the tour director and a colleague of the Steinway’s current owner, singer George Michael.

Read the extensive backstory: http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/

Is anyone else posting their xmas piano pics?

Pretty gold ornament Brian.

This from the Squeezytunes website

Mr Harris's Piano Christmas Cake



Almost like you can eat it...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EO43...1600-h/Mr+Harris.jpg

The Puzzle of the Lady On A Piano
http://lepuzzle.com/vos-puzzle...-1,14,27,170426.html

Just bent my brain trying to solve one of these fangled puzzles

Dré Wapenaar's Tents: Artful Environments Cloaked In Canvas

Dré Wapenaar is a Rotterdam-based artist whose primary medium is tents - environments designed to shape encounters, whether between individuals or for large groups. Dre's portfolio includes a tent for reading newspapers, a birthing tent, "Deathbivouac," the "Pavilion of Loneliness," "Tree Tents" and "4GPP"

- a pavilion for the performance of Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt's "Concerto for Four Grand Pianos."

The Four Grand Piano Pavilion, 2004

"Carolyn" Piano Music Box & Bench - $4,500.00

A Jay Strongwater Creation. I don't mind if you feel like buying this little gift for me...

It's Christmas - take your piano with you..