Save the Pianos
"Save the Souls of the Conservatory Pianos" and "Help the Pianos Play Again" were the titles of a fund-raising campaign that aimed to collect the necessary sums to have the pianos of our most famous last century composers brought to a functional state.
It was a successful campaign, many people have donated their valuable objects and the objects were auctioned. The first piano to be brought back to life will be the one that belonged to Dinu Lipatti, one of our greatest pianists. He was George Enescu's pupil and godson (he was an "enfant prodige", he played Mozart at his own baptism ceremony), but he died of cancer in his early 30's. Here is one of his performances.
4 comments:
A touching idea. Is the campaign still on? Could the pianbos be saved?
It's amazing the amount of money and energy our heritage needs!
And what a good music some priviliged souls can play!
The campaign was over today. Successfully, they say.
Privileges are payed. He died young, such as many other special people. But, maybe it's worth it. Better 10 years as an eagle than 100 a a crow, my grandma used to say. A long life is not always a gift.
Some campaigns are strange, even funny: the heads of our church want to sanctify Eminescu. I think dead people that we all respect should be honoured in other ways, ways they would appreciate. Sanctification is very rare in Orthodoxism. A few years ago they sanctified Stephen the Great, an important ruler, a patriot and a big fighter against the Turks, but he had 3 wives and so many illegitimate sons that legend says (see, legends!) that he formed a regiment of them. He's a milestone in our history and so is Eminescu, who was a big womanizer too and died of a sexual disease. Besides, he was against religion and he wrote:
Religion-but a tale, astutely spread abroad
To rivet on your shoulders the heavy harnessed load,
For, had you lost all hope of heavenly reward
After a life on earth with pain and hardship scored,
Would you go on working as an ox beneath the goad?
With what strange phantom shadows are your illusions fed
That make you set your faith in heaven's promised store?
No, when your life is passed, all hope of joy is sped,
And he who dies in misery, in misery is dead;
For those who pass the grave come back again no more.
I think it's a way of seeking popularity, not paying respect.
Maybe I should delete this comment very quickly, it's a public blog and it's a bit disrespectful to those two.
I don't find it disrespectful, but historical. You have not invented it. anyway I agree with you! Sometimes what is looked for is popularity!
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