“Lena, could you tell us what made you choose the piano?” the presenter asked.
His wife’s head, with a strong shadow on her neck which made it appear decapitated, preserved on a transparent block of ice, looked in her husband’s direction abstractedly.
“When I discovered my inclination for music, I connected it immediately with the polyphonic instruments. At first I preferred the harp and the harmonium. But eventually I was compelled to compromise according to the size of my purse…”
Of her purse… When for the deposit on her piano he had been obliged to withdraw every penny he had in the bank…Without the slightest objection on her part.
He had however done it with pleasure. Because after that landmark-evening in Famagusta his attitude towards his wife, he had to admit, had changed radica
