This Friday
lunchtime performance, one in a regular recital programme at St Nicholas
Cathedral, featured Paul Taylor in a set of forty minutes or so playing solo
piano improvisations. The recital programme presents artists from far and wide
(an organist, a classical guitarist, a soprano voice perhaps), today a musician
based in the region expressed his delight at being offered a platform within
such imposing surroundings.
Paul Taylor
specialises in solo piano improvisations. Elegant, impressionistic, cascading
lines, a confluence of ideas, Taylor
seemingly abandoning a line of thought in favour of another before a return to
an earlier statement. The audience listened, some with closed eyes,
contemplating who knows what? Taylor
is a quietly spoken man, his introductory remarks audible to those seated in
the pews nearest to the piano situated in the nave. Other audience members sitting
several rows behind struggled to hear, but no matter, Taylor’s music spoke for him. At the
conclusion of his set Taylor
stood up, acknowledged the audience, and walked off with a backward glance at
the piano.
A concert
performance of quiet, reflective piano playing.
Russell
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