Lenin's Piano
During a private WPO tour of the Kremlin in December 1991 Boyd played the first chords of Oh Canada on Lenin's piano.
On New Year's Eve she played Granada by AgustÃn Lara at a gala. Boyd was the only non-Russian invited by Gavril Popov, the mayor of Moscow, to perform at this event.
Read more about this topic: Liona Boyd
Famous quotes containing the words lenin and/or piano:
“Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”
—Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)