Volcano Brought Chopin to Orange County

“Because of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano a man sat waiting Monday afternoon in the Newark airport instead of on a plane to Berlin.
Thank you unpronounceable volcano.
Sitting there, the man got a phone call. Yuja Wang had a sore arm, it seemed, and a doctor had ordered her to rest. The man didn’t wonder why they were telling him this. He got on a plane for Orange County.
The pianist had Chopin’s Etudes, all 27 of them, ready to go. He’s been playing them a lot in recent seasons, and recorded them more than 20 years ago. They’re something of a specialty. So he pulled them out of his luggage and played them here.”
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…or listen to “the man”, Louis Lortie, performing
Chopin’s Etude op 10 no 1:

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