This is Terribly Sad.

A Ukranian woman plays her piano one last time before quitting the wreckage of her home.

(After false start, Chopin: Etude No. 1 in A-Flat, Op. 25.)

Whether coincidence or not, the pianist’s choice of Chopin is telling, as the composer was half Polish and much grieved by the brutalization of that Slavic nation by more powerful oppressors, including Russia.

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Anthony Chase Fountain

The Tatler of 1709 was founded by Jonathan Swift, aka Isaac Bickerstaff. The Taos Tatler was founded by ex-New Yorker Anthony Fountain in 2018, in the same spirit, he hopes, as the original. Please send mail to taostatler@gmail.com.

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