Thursday, June 08, 2023

London Tube Duet



French pianist Aurelien Froissart visited the public piano at the St. Pancras train station in London and set up several cameras, as he often does for his TikTok videos in which he plays requests. This time a request came from a woman carrying a violin case. She asked if he knew Vivaldi's "Summer" from his Four Seasons. Froissart did, but got a little flustered during the duet wondering if he could keep up with the violinist.

Was it staged? Froissart has an awful lot of performance videos of public pianos in which talented musicians join in with him, so that's up in the air, but this one garnered 50 millions views on TikTok. Unfortunately, the woman with the violin was never identified. But the performance was magic. (via Metafilter)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

> Was it staged?

I'll say.