Improvisations
10-1-2013 – Piano 9
I found this piano on an early-morning walk around Harvard Square before work, on the Harvard Science Center overpass. Four out of 6 of the pianos I found were still locked at that time, but this one wasn’t!
10-1-2013 – Longy School of Music (Piano 10)
I have so many videos and recordings to upload! Please bear with me as I stitch together the sound recordings I made on my phone and the videos I took on a little fisheye camera (which had terrible sound quality, since it was resting and buzzing on the piano as I played!). It might be another week or two before I get everything posted 🙂
This piano was my tenth “grab”, if you will. So far, I’ve played 30 pianos, and I’m hoping to hit 40 by the time they are taken away.
This improvisation grew out of the slow movement from Ravel’s G minor piano concerto. I started playing around with it because there was a trumpet player outside in the courtyard practicing his part for that same concerto, but the first movement!
9-29-2013 – Piano 6
From my last stop on a 6-piano tour yesterday! More audio to come, but first: here is a video of me and Theadora playing/singing “Les Berceaux” by Gabriel Faure! The piano is in Roslindale Square.
from 11/24/11
This is the piano at the house of my cousins Robyn and Phyllis. Nicole and I were staying there for Thanksgiving break, and they had an upright piano that has been in the family for years – I’m sure it was more than 50 years old – possibly over 100. I sat down after dinner to play, and, memorably, Phyllis’s mom also sang through some old-time popular songs with me. Unfortunately, we didn’t record that, but it was a really wonderful evening.