Steven Osborne on Feeling, Soul Searching, and Rachmaninoff

A pianist reflects on the value of music in a troubled world.

May 19, 2022

Pianist Steven Osbourne at the piano. Steven Osbourne plays Rachmaninoff with the Utah Symphony. Photo of Russian Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff in the background. Music swirls around the pianist.

This piece was originally a draft from when I worked at Utah Symphony | Utah Opera. It was never published, and I want to thank USUO and Steven Osborne for granting me the rights to rework it and publish it for you here.

People love to pick apart art. They’ll analyze it to its core to find even the tiniest speck of meaning—this is especially true in cla…

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