[Leica] Nathan's PAD 19/8/2022: the universal language

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

I am tempted to say, with apologies to Elton John - "Don't shoot me, I'm
only the piano player!".....

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 2:49 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> I just came back from a few days visiting Warsaw, the capital of the
> country where I was born. Visiting Poland is usually a bittersweet
> experience for me, given all the painful history, but on the other hand it
> is nice to be in a country where people speak my mother tongue and In a
> strange way I feel at home there too.
>
> Last night we went to a piano recital in the Warsaw’s Stare Miasto—old
> town—which in reality is all post-war reconstruction since Warsaw was
> basically bombed into oblivion by the Germans during WW2. We spent an hour
> listening to a Japanese pianist interpreting Chopin, and doing it very
> well. Sometimes one hears that you have to be Polish to really play Chopin
> properly, or Russian to play Rachmaninov or Tchaikovsky—bullshit, I say.
> Music is a universal language. Last year, a Chinese-Canadian pianist won
> the international Chopin competition in Warsaw, and one of the foremost
> interpreters of Chopin’s music is Brazilian. Truly, Chopin’s music is an
> International language, So here are four photos of Mamiko Ueyama from
> Osaka, playing Chopin’s music in Warsaw:
>
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-mXpQSgx/ <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-mXpQSgx/>
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Fdzt3GR/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Fdzt3GR/A>
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-ZdG3mdG/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-ZdG3mdG/A>
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-SBddJRG/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-SBddJRG/A>
>
> Leica content: all photos were made with the 90mm Tele-Elmarit, mounted on
> my Panasonic GX80.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
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> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
>
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>
> YNWA
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