Songs from a Lost Piano - Leeds - pt 1

Songs from a Lost Piano - Matthew Bourne
2 February 2009

Eclectic pianist Matthew Bourne brings Yorkshire's discarded pianos back to life for three haunting performances and an evocative photographic exhibition.

The idea behind the project is to acknowledge the piano's place in our lives, even though it's increasingly absent from those places it might have been found - in the pub or the music hall or the corner of a living room.
A three month search for Yorkshire's most characterful keyboards produced six very different instruments; from a beloved family upright passed down the generations, to a legless grand hidden behind a motorbike in a Methodist Chapel.
See: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/artic...

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Music

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• Songs
• Lost
• Piano
• Matthew
• Bourne
• Leeds
• improvised
• composed