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The Luminous Moon
(YouTube can be found below.)
his video is an experiment in piano four-hands. Normally, for piano four-hands, two players sit at one piano, with one playing the high part and the other the low.
Instead, here I video myself playing each part — one at a time — and then combine them.
Two at the same keyboard, four hands moving as one.
To the casual eye, it might seem intimate — and perhaps it is,
but not in the way the world imagines.
Beneath the great silver lantern of the sky,
their music rises like mist,
carrying a quiet vow to something larger than either of them.
Each hand is a voice, each voice a current in the same river,
and the river itself flows toward the moon.
For a few shining moments, there are no players, no notes, no boundaries.
Only light on ivory, only sound becoming silence,
only the soft, impossible mystery
of being human together
under a moon so luminous
it outshines all misunderstanding.
—William Zeitler
2025 September 8
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