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.
