{"id":1871,"date":"2014-12-10T18:20:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T02:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2018-03-03T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T02:22:24","slug":"a-moving-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1871","title":{"rendered":"A Moving Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Franck\u2019s Pr\u00e9lude, Choral and Fugue moves through passage after fortissimo passage, the piano is moving, too\u2014away from me. I\u2019m already leaning forward to keep my hands on the keys. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rolling the piano into position lines up the casters so they tend to move easily along the same line; in this case, the line along which my playing is pushing. And these casters have no locks. And the stagehands didn\u2019t angle them, which would have prevented the motion. And I failed to notice the situation. The Bach Partita didn\u2019t put enough energy into the piano to start it moving. But moving it is, thanks to Franck.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/piano-stage-dolly-crop.jpg\" alt=\"piano stage dolly crop\" width=\"271\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2311\" scale=\"0\">\n<\/p>\n<p>Can I pull the monster <em>back<\/em>? Manhandling a half-ton from a seated position isn\u2019t easy, even if it <em>is<\/em> on big casters. Can I move the bench forward? Only with a risk of thunks and clunks.  And anyway, from this point in the Franck, there will be few or no moments with hands free for such tasks.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like one of those nightmares where you\u2019re in an embarrassing or dangerous situation and somehow frozen, unable to get out of it.<\/p>\n<p><i>P.S.:<\/i> Everything came out OK. I even played the Franck well. Maybe I should play a \u201cpiano <em>pas de deux<\/em>\u201d more often. <span class=\"jb-end-of-post\"><img class=\"jb-end-of-post\" src=\"\/Mordent.svg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Franck\u2019s Pr\u00e9lude, Choral and Fugue moves through passage after fortissimo passage, the piano is moving, too\u2014away from me. I\u2019m already leaning forward to keep my hands on the keys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}