Book and Piano

January 2010
Knight Crew lying on a rehearsal piano at Glyndebourne.
Why do I find this picture so moving? Perhaps just the casualness of the juxtaposition. Someone snapping a book lying on a piano. Whereas, for me, the connection is strong and strange and special.

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