Nobuyuki Tsujii / Chopin
“The Old Blind Guitarist“ (1903)
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to watch Nobuyuki Tsujii play the
piano, a piano he cannot see, nor
anything else around him, not
even his fingers, is a wonder,
one beholds the work of the
imagination taking place inside
a tenebrous, one would’ve
supposed, cerebellum, a place
without height, depth, width,
without the idea, even, of, verily,
spatial dimensions
not only has he had to imagine
Chopin’s extraordinary, admit it,
First Piano Concerto there, he’s
had to imagine himself playing
it, playing it before even
international audiences – here,
the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition,
in which he tied for first place –
despite surely profound physical,
moral, emotional impediments,
mountains most, I’m sure,
couldn’t climb
it is to see the face of an angel,
I think, to watch him, only angels,
I believe, can do this sort of thing
watch, be inspired
and the Chopin is terrific
R ! chard
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