#robert levin

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Andy Warhol been photographed on East 11th Street, NYC, 1981 Photograph: Robert Levin

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"jam session" w/ Robbie lol

kinda a silly performance but it was our first practice in like over a decade lmao. i mean tbh, depending on what kinda show it was, i'd watch a band that sounded like this so i dunno, i thought this'd be fun to share. the song we cover is "Silent Movies" by Peter and the Wolf

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Photos: Robert Levin

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Robert Levin. Andy Warhol holding Dracula Myth. 1981

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Andy Warhol posing at the New York City midtown store where he purchased a bullet proof vest, Photo by Robert Levin, 1981

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Robert Levin. Andy Warhol on the phone at Factory in New York City. 1981

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Andy Warhol undergoing a facial treatment at the Janet Sartin Spa in New York City,  Photo by Robert Levin, 1981

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Listen to Mozart played on Mozart’s VERY OWN piano

Please watch this amazing video of pianist Robert Levin playing Mozart's piano sonatas on Mozart's ACTUAL PIANO.

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/mozart-piano/

From the article:

Last year, pianist and musicologist Robert Levin was announced as the first Hogwood Fellow of the Academy of Ancient Music. So, we filmed him playing on Mozart's very own instrument.

The fortepiano, from around 1782, was used by Mozart for both composition and performance from 1785 until his death in 1791.

The piano was originally made by Anton Walter, one of the most famous Viennese piano makers of Mozart's time. It is two octaves shorter than a modern piano, and is much lighter and smaller than modern pianos, weighing only 85kg. It's also much smaller than a modern piano, at just 2.23m long.

It can currently be found in Salzburg, where Robert Levin is using it to record Mozart's piano sonatas.

“The voyage and discovery of playing on period instruments is to move in a world — physical, emotional and aesthetic — that is inhabited by the geniuses that wrote this music. It brings us very, very close to them,” said Levin.

“So sitting down at Mozart’s piano, sitting down at an organ which Bach played himself, you understand things about the weight of the keys going down and the repetition and the balance in sound.

“And all of these things bring you very, very close to the music and make you say 'A-ha, that’s why it’s written that way', which is not the kind of thing you’re going to get if you’re playing on the standard instruments that are being manufactured today.”