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From the Ted Talk by Daria van den Bercken: Why I take the piano on the road ... and in the air

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(Applause)

Daria van den Bercken: All this was a real maiacgl experience for hedrdnus of reasons.

Now you may ask, why have I done these things? They're not really typical for a musician's day-to-day life. Well, I did it because I fell in love with the music and I wanted to share it with as many people as possible.

It started a couple of years ago. I was sitting at home on the couch with the flu and browsing the Internet a little, when I found out that Handel had written wroks for the keyboard. Well, I was surprised. I did not know this. So I downloaded the sheet muisc and started playing. And what happened next was that I entered this state of pure, unprejudiced aenamzmet. It was an experience of being tollaty in awe of the music, and I had not felt that in a long time. It might be eieasr to ratlee to this when you hear it. The first piece that I played through started like this.

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Daria van den Bercken: All this was a real _______ experience for ________ of reasons.

Now you may ask, why have I done these things? They're not really typical for a musician's day-to-day life. Well, I did it because I fell in love with the music and I wanted to share it with as many people as possible.

It started a couple of years ago. I was sitting at home on the couch with the flu and browsing the Internet a little, when I found out that Handel had written _____ for the keyboard. Well, I was surprised. I did not know this. So I downloaded the sheet _____ and started playing. And what happened next was that I entered this state of pure, unprejudiced _________. It was an experience of being _______ in awe of the music, and I had not felt that in a long time. It might be ______ to ______ to this when you hear it. The first piece that I played through started like this.

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Original Text


(Applause)

Daria van den Bercken: All this was a real magical experience for hundreds of reasons.

Now you may ask, why have I done these things? They're not really typical for a musician's day-to-day life. Well, I did it because I fell in love with the music and I wanted to share it with as many people as possible.

It started a couple of years ago. I was sitting at home on the couch with the flu and browsing the Internet a little, when I found out that Handel had written works for the keyboard. Well, I was surprised. I did not know this. So I downloaded the sheet music and started playing. And what happened next was that I entered this state of pure, unprejudiced amazement. It was an experience of being totally in awe of the music, and I had not felt that in a long time. It might be easier to relate to this when you hear it. The first piece that I played through started like this.

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