Spare a thought for the piano tuner

Spare a thought for the piano tuner

Last night was a really uplifting experience. We managed to nail great seats at The Royal Albert Hall to take in a couple of Beethoven Piano Concertos performed by Lang Lang. What’s to say about this guy and his performance. In short this guy is a living genius. It’s no wonder that he is currently carrying popular opinion as the world’s premier pianist.

With a full support of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Lang Lang hit the ground running.

Within about a minute of assaulting the ivories this guy had a sell out crowd of 5,500 right within his grasp. What amazed me was the complete lack of noise from the audience. No coughing, no banging of doors, none of the usual background irritation.

It was like we were in some kind of collective trance and were hanging on every note as if it was a matter of life or death.

In fact at some points during quieter moments it was so eerily quiet you could have heard a pin drop.

What a concert!

What an experience!

So much talent within the body of one twenty seven year old. Amazing stuff

As an aside, when we took our seats twenty minutes prior to kick off the only guy on stage was the piano tuner who was  hard at work doing his thing and continued to fine tune the Grand right up to the point when the conductor hit the stage

Then again during the twenty five minute interval, no sooner had Lang Lang exited right  than our mate rushed back on stage and spend the full interval period fine tuning Lang Lang’s weapon of choice.

Give that tuner a  big bonus

As for the  audience reaction at concerts end, they went ballistic

Nine curtain calls. More bunches of flowers that you would find in a large hospital on Mothers Day.

And only a thirty minute trip back to the apartment.

Off to buy the CD today

Cheers