"The wrong piano": How the challenges we face can be an opportunity to create something extraordinary - The Churning

"The wrong piano": How the challenges we face can be an opportunity to create something extraordinary - The Churning

When pianist Keith Jarrett arrived at the Cologne / Köln opera house in 1975 he found that the wrong piano had been put on stage for him. It was an old, practice piano — out of tune, with keys that stuck. The upper register was harsh and tinny. It was simply not the kind of piano that a musician of his calibre should be expected to play. It was insulting, outrageous! So he refused to perform. But somehow the young promoter managed to win him rou…