by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 3, 2012 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
I must be missing New York’s cold January weather. How else to explain the two ice packs I’ve clutched to either end of me this past week in a hot and humid Australian climate? Visiting a dear friend in Brisbane, I fell over my own foot while hanging out...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 5, 2010 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
Ruined-piano connoisseur Ross Bolleter plays in his garden. Courtesy World Association for Ruined Piano Studies WARPS.com Further to some comments I made on the Meanjin blog Spiked a few days ago in response to happy endings, which took the film adaptation of Cormac...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 10, 2009 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
Look at these gorgeous paintings by Evan B Harris. Their whimsical beauty appeals to me. I bumped into them online while searching for something else. (As it is in life, so it is online.) I find particularly moving his literal intertwining of musician, instrument,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 20, 2009 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
I just stumbled across this article from the LA Times about the declining sales of acoustic pianos, the rise in sales of electronic instruments and digital keyboards, and what it all might mean. According to the article, 105,000 acoustic upright and grand pianos were...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 19, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
What is it about the piano? At this month’s Sydney Festival (sadly the last one under the direction of the brilliant Fergus Linehan) a proliferation of piano-related events has brought into focus the peculiar ability of that instrument to appeal to high and low...