Lunchtime Interlude

It’s nice to find familiar music in unexpected places. I went into the eatery at the Memorial Union on campus at noon today, my usual lunch stop, and heard somebody playing Beethoven on the old and usually ignored upright piano there. This was the Waldstein sonata (Op. 53, in C major) — my brother used to practice it when I was growing up. The pianist was a good bit better than the piano he was playing on: perhaps in his life as UCD student he doesn’t have much access to an instrument to practice on, but still needed his fix of Beethoven. He didn’t stay too long, picking up his score and leaving after the first movement.