Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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/> > > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Fdzt3GR/A < > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Fdzt3GR/A> > > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-ZdG3mdG/A < > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-ZdG3mdG/A> > > 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 > > > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > YNWA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information