UKRAINE MUM’S DEFIANCE AS SHE PLAYED PIANO IN HER BOMBED-OUT HOME

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A Ukrainian mother-of-two played a moving farewell to her family home after it was blown apart by a Russian bomb.  

Professional pianist Irina Maniukina brushed away rubble and from her grand just hours after a bomb landed 30 feet away in Bila Tserkva, south of Kyiv. 

Then she closed the lid on the keys and fled.

Irana was born in Kyiv almost 50 years ago. Now she is living 300 miles away.

Irana’s daughter Karina took the video. She said, ‘It wasn’t a sad moment. My mother just wanted to let go of unnecessary thoughts.” 

She performed a section from Schubert’s Impromptu Op. 90 No. 2 before Chopin’s Aeolian Harp Etude Op. 25 No. 1.

Many have said the video reminded them of The Pianist, a biographical war drama film which won Oscar awards. The film is based on a memoir by Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman.

And Composer Howard Goodall said the video also reminds of the November Uprising, also known as the Polish-Russian War in 1830.

“Particularly poignant that Irina played Chopin, who left his homeland Poland as it (with Lithuanians and Ukrainians) rebelled against and was then crushed by the Russian empire,” Goodall said.

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