Showing posts with label piano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label piano. Show all posts

Friday, July 23, 2010

Piano to the People!


".... volunteers have been enlisted to keep an eye on each of the pianos around the city — 36 in Manhattan, 10 in Brooklyn, 4 in the Bronx, 6 in Queens and 4 on Staten Island. Sing for Hope, the New York-based charity that imported “Play Me, I’m Yours” from Britain, says the pianos will stay put: They are anchored by cables to fences or to cinder blocks. Even a piano mover would have a hard time making off with one.

Sing for Hope had an unlocking ceremony at 9 a.m. in Times Square, where a piano is at 42nd Street and Broadway, just below a walk-don’t walk sign. There was a concert that began with “I Love a Piano.” Alexander Long, who recently graduated from New Rochelle High School, accompanied two singers, Jaela Cheeks-Lomax and Samantha Bogle."

Pianos in New York; what a lovely idea.