The Horowitz Steinway

Location: Tom Lee Music, Richmond BC
Time: 16:30
Forecast: cloudy; light drizzle

Today I had the great honour of playing on Horowitz's piano, the Steinway CD314503. Vladimir Horowitz, arguably one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, trusted no other piano but his own. If you were around for any of his performances, you would see a crane lifting his piano in and out of the building in which he was scheduled to play. Where ever he performed, his piano would follow.

Recently, this very piano was to tour the nation for anyone to see and lately it happened to be in Richmond. When I entered the room containing this piano, my eyes were out of my head. Undoubtedly, music can connect you to the past. But at my finger tips were the same keys that Horowitz played so beautifully. It was surreal.

Horowitz's Piano

I wouldn't consider myself a pianist but I managed to play part of the first movement of Moonlight Sonata, which conveys the sadness of a rainy day. Here is what it was meant to sound like: