“It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though…
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Andries Bezuidenhout. Chopin en Schumann in die Musaion
Die een voordeel van universiteitskampusse is middagetekonserte – stukkies vrede so tussendeur merkwerk en kleinlike akademiese politiek. Ek het ʼn paar weke gelede ʼn pragtige weergawe van Schubert se toonsetting van Der Erlkönig in die Musaion gehoor. Die Musaion, op die kampus van die Universiteit van Pretoria, is deur die argitek Brian Sandrock ontwerp en…