![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reality is slowly being remade and Elsa, too, is being remade after apparently losing her nerve on stage just before a performance of her signature piece, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. Like the world around her, she is improvising through a time of rupture. It’s this whole professional self, with its enigmatic M-full-stop, and the soaring persona it denotes, that is up for grabs in August Blue.Įlsa has been untethered by a professional crisis in Vienna the previous August. Anderson is not in a trance when she plays, she is in flight. I had once heard him say to a journalist, No, Elsa M. When we first learn her name, it’s her whole, professional name, spoken by her internationally renowned piano teacher, Arthur Goldstein: Anderson: statuesque, beautiful and unravelling. Life is slowly opening up in the aftermath of the pandemic it seems as protean and up for grabs as the protagonist herself. The world is a now-familiar present, with surgical masks, cancellations, lost jobs, parents working from home and intruding on their children’s lives. ![]() August Blue unfolds across a year from September to August as its narrator, an acclaimed classical pianist, drifts across a Europe emerging from lockdown. ![]()
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