The German ‘peace pianist’ drove his baby grand through the night and played Imagine on the streets of Paris the day after the attacks
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• Nepal earthquake survivor Michele Battelli: ‘It was the loudest noise Ive ever heard. It felt like the whole mountain was coming down’ Davide Martello’s first thought when news came through of the terrorist siege at the Bataclan theatre in Paris was: this is an attack on music. His second thought was an intuition really: I hold to take my piano there and play.
I attach the Bataclan theatre into the GPS and I drove 12 hours and I arrived in the late morning. The city was dead.
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Source: theguardian.com