Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Same old. Same old. How better to describe the life of a piano teacher?

Unless the piano's essential magic is the subject, the motive and the goal all at once it is hard to avoid repetitive listening syndrome.

Yesterday I heard a CD that propelled me anew into the radical world of the piano: Piotr Anderszewski playing Mazurkas, Ballades and Polonaises--works I thought I knew.