Wednesday, 19. March 2008
Topic: * - on March 19, 2008 at 11:21:00 AM CET
Zen and the art of piano-burning
Famed Japanese jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita has expressed his burning passion for music by setting his piano on fire.
At a sunset performance on at beach in Ishikawa Prefecture, western Japan, the 66-year-old Yamashita, wearing a firefighter's uniform, recently played an improvised jazz piece before about 500 spectators seated in a wide semicircle around him.
No sooner had he begun playing, the piano burst into performance for a full ten minutes before all the strings were burnt out or snapped and the piano went quiet.
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