A few notes by way of farewell.
On March 5, Irina Maniukina's house was destroyed by Russian missile fire.
Knowing her daughter Karina inside, fortunately emerged unscathed, the Ukrainian pianist hastened to return to her home in Bila Tserkva, near kyiv.
When he arrived, the material damage was considerable.
No room in the house is spared, as evidenced by the video of Karina shared on social networks.
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The windows are smashed, the ground strewn with debris, the homes in the neighborhood ripped open.
Only Irina Maniukina's white piano, enthroned in the heart of the living room, survived the bombardments.
Before leaving the ruined house for good, she wanted to play one last piece.
"Don't judge, my mother is a professional pianist and decided to play to let go of this situation
," her daughter Karina said in the comments.
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Instinctively, Irina plays an extract from a composition by Chopin, nicknamed
La Harpe éolienne
(Etudes op. 25, n°1 in A flat major).
The scene echoes that of The
Pianist
, although Adrian Brody appropriates nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor.
The American actor plays Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jewish pianist, who is trying to escape deportation.
"It is particularly poignant that Irina played Chopin
," British composer Howard Goodall said on Twitter.
[He] left his native Poland when it, together with the Lithuanians and the Ukrainians, rebelled against the Russian Empire, before being crushed by it”
.
Since the missile launch, the pianist and her family have been forced to leave Bila Tserkva to join Jovkva, north of Lviv, near the Polish border.
