Friday, May 21, 2010
Art Pianos, Coming to a Street Near You
Posted by Henry Stewart on Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Takin' it to the streets!!
On June 21, 60 pianos will be placed in spots around the city, from Times Square to the Coney Island boardwalk. All five boroughs should get at least half a dozen pianos each. Presuming they are not destroyed by misoauralists, the pianos will be donated to schools and hospitals at summer's end.
Unintentionally, it could become a powerful rebuke to the city's leading classical music institutions, whose plans for al fresco summer outreach have been scaled back for the third year in a row. If all goes well, New Yorkers can prove to their premiere opera and philharmonic that they can play their own music for each other, thank you very much, reviving a tradition before recorded music, when friends and families would gather around a piano to listen and sing songs together.
Start producing; stop consuming!
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