Baffling concerts
Or
The wonders of a traveling pianist
Release date: September 27, 2024
Disconcerting concerts, or the astonishments of a traveling pianist is a collection of stories from concert tours.
Destinations: Congo, Oman, Taiwan, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, India, Pakistan.... France.
Emotion, suspense and humor punctuate the chapters, through a prelude, 7 fugues in foreign soil and a Lyonnais and (almost) pornographic coda.
For the pleasure of the eyes as well as the heart, each chapter heading is illustrated by a vibrant drawing from the very inspired pen of the calligrapher of the moment, Pierre Constantin.
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PRELUDE
Not everyone can be Arthur Rubinstein!
When King Arthur died at the respectable age of almost 96, my friend Jean-Luc said to me with a wink:
— That'll make room for you!
This mischievous prophecy was eminently promising, but unfortunately things did not turn out exactly that way, and although I regret it, the game of musical chairs did not propel me directly to the career level of the brilliant pianist from Łódź.
At the time, I was still a student at the Conservatoire national supérieur de Lyon, and like most of my peers, relatively concerned about my professional future.
Of course, I really wanted to travel the globe, enchanting audiences of ecstatic young girls with my talent, but something told me that I would probably have to face reality and consider my profession more pragmatically, contemplating less prestigious activities, but ones that could still provide for me and my future family.
I was mentally studying the possibility of a fallback route, a sort of alternative route for music, which would pass through small venues, youth centers, less popular but not corrupt places, which would welcome me for honorable, unpretentious concerts, outside the star system, while maintaining a level of quality that I would not have to be ashamed of.
However, I quickly understood that even if we had to play in the second division, it was better to aim for the first division first.
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