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Recently, I flew over a crowd of thousands of people in Brazil, playing music by George Frideric Handel
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I also drove along the streets of Amsterdam, again playing music by this same composer.
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Let's take a look.
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I live there on the third floor.
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All this was a real magical experience for hundreds of reasons.
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Now you may ask, why have I done these things?
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They're not really typical for a musician's day-to-day life.
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Well, I did it because I fell in love with the music and I wanted to share it with as many people as possible.
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It started a couple of years ago.
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I was sitting at home on the couch with the flu and browsing the Internet a little,
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when I found out that Handel had written works for the keyboard.
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Well, I was surprised. I did not know this.
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So I downloaded the sheet music and started playing.
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And what happened next was that I entered this state of pure, unprejudiced amazement.
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It was an experience of being totally in awe of the music, and I had not felt that in a long time.
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It might be easier to relate to this when you hear it.
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The first piece that I played through started like this.
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Well this sounds very melancholic, doesn't it?
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And I turned the page and what came next was this.
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Well, this sounds very energetic, doesn't it?
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So within a couple of minutes, and the piece isn't even finished yet,
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I experienced two very contrasting characters: beautiful melancholy and sheer energy.
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And I consider these two elements to be vital human expressions.
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And the purity of the music makes you hear it very effectively.
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I've given a lot of children's concerts for children of seven and eight years old,
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and whatever I play, whether it's Bach, Beethoven, even Stockhausen, or some jazzy music,
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they are open to hear it, really willing to listen, and they are comfortable doing so
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And when classes come in with children who are just a few years older, 11, 12,
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I felt that I sometimes already had trouble in reaching them like that.
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The complexity of the music does become an issue,
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and actually the opinions of others — parents, friends, media — they start to count
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But the young ones, they don't question their own opinion
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They are in this constant state of wonder,
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and I do firmly believe that we can keep listening like these seven-year-old children
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even when growing up.
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And that is why I have played not only in the concert hall but also on the street, online, in the air,
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to feel that state of wonder, to truly listen, and to listen without prejudice.
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And I would like to invite you to do so now.
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Thank you.