What it costs to fly a piano to a mountaintop
mainFrom Digital Music News:
DJ, producer, and songwriter Kygo has paid to have a grand piano helicoptered to the top of the Sunnmore Alps in his native Norway, and the 29-year-old is now set to livestream multiple performances from the picturesque location.
As one would.
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This one’s Einaudi in 2o16.
If it’s meant to sound sh*te – it will, even if he sprinkles the whole mountain with gold
The act may seem strange, but of one thing you can be sure; No Norwegian laws were broken.
Because breaking the rules in Norway is a definite No-No.
Or, as they say in Norway;
Å bryte reglene er et nei nei.
And also;
Å spise en sellever om dagen holder legen unna.
Considering Einaudi’s awful musical and technical abilities, it would easier and much cheaper to drop him.
Under the piano
Yes, but dropping him would contribute to pollution.
The eccentric pianist François René Duchable, has played outdoors in mountains many times for more than a decade. Must be a wonderful experience for him and his audience. At his best Duchable is a great artist: no surprise that Rubinstein had mentored him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxj7PlwRc20
The cellist Mario Brunello with Isabelle Faust, violin, in the Dolomites, playing Bach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWWzR3573m4
And he treks up there himself, cello on his back. No helicopter.
Will one of his repertoire pieces include Night on a Bare Mountain or Hall of the Mountain King?
Perhaps the artist could improvise a fantasy on Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony.
Why ist der Pianist not performing **inside** the helicopter? I could compose for him a wunderbar Helikopter-Sonata…
Surely Leif Ove Andsnes beat him by a few years!
Good luck to the piano tuner.
Stockhausen composed his Helicopter String Quartet in 1995 for String Quartet, four helicopters and pilots!! Perhaps another composer could arrange this as a Piano Quintet.
I bet Greta Thunberg is up in arms about using a helicopter when they could have hired 8 sherpas to carry the piano up.