{"id":135589,"date":"2018-03-26T07:40:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=135589"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:05:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:05:29","slug":"let-play-steinways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/03\/let-play-steinways\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Play Steinways!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olga Radovi\u0107, a first-year Master of Music candidate in piano performance, had mixed feelings when she learned that she would be the first musician to perform with the new Steinway &amp; Sons grand concert piano that arrived in November for use at J. Louis von der Mehden Recital Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had both excitement and concern,\u201d says Radovi\u0107, who performed on the piano in December as a soloist with the UConn Symphony Orchestra after winning the 2017 Aria\/Concerto Competition last fall. \u201cA brand-new piano can be very challenging to play and to control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A native of Belgrade, Serbia, Radovi\u0107 has performed with orchestras since she was 12 but did not often play on pianos comparable to a Steinway \u2013 considered the best of its kind in the world. However, after talking with Angelina Gadeliya, assistant professor-in-residence and director of keyboard studies, about her own experiences performing with the handcrafted instrument, Radovi\u0107 understood the opportunity before her. \u201cAll I could feel was excitement and joy,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the story, hear Radovi\u0107\u2019s performance piece, and go behind the scenes at the Steinway &amp; Sons Brooklyn factory, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2018\/01\/23\/keys-to-the-kingdom\/\">magazine.uconn.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn students will not just be playing pianos, they will be playing Steinways! That\u2019s thanks to generous donors who are purchasing Steinways with the goal of UConn joining the elite ranks of all-Steinway institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":135593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1711,1914,2225,2227,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1918],"class_list":["post-135589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-sfa","category-uconn-storrs","category-uconn-edu-homepage","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 15:25:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135589"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135591,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135589\/revisions\/135591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/135593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135589"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=135589"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=135589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}