Roxanne de Bastionis honouring the memory of her brilliant Hungarian ancestor to keep his legacy alive
My family has a piano. Its keys are weathered from touch. It has tiny marks on the top right corner where my dad used to gnaw at the wood with his baby teeth.
I always knew this instrument to be special. It felt out of place in our otherwise modest family home (none of my friends had a battle-scarred baby grand in their living rooms, that’s for sure).
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/02/im-bringing-his-music-back-to-life-the-singer-whose-grandfather-was-silenced-by-the-holocaust
Author : Roxanne de Bastion
Publish date : 2024-06-02 04:00:20
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