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elleng

(136,365 posts) Mon Jun 6, 2016, 12:19 AM Jun 2016

Penn Station Is Shabby, but at Least It Sounds Nice.

'It is one of the incongruities of life in New York that some of the most appealing music ever written, a Beethoven trio, for example, or a Mozart sonata, is played in one of the most unappealing public spaces ever built — Pennsylvania Station.

The timeless music is meant to make the life of the modern traveler more pleasant, a word not typically associated with Penn Station. It is even considered a crime deterrent.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/nyregion/from-afar-curating-a-sophisticated-soundtrack-for-shabby-penn-station.html?

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Penn Station Is Shabby, but at Least It Sounds Nice. (Original Post) elleng Jun 2016 OP

In Los Angeles' Union Station, we now have a piano that apparently is sort of available JDPriestly Jun 2016 #1

Great experience @ DC Metro station 9 years ago: elleng Jun 2016 #2

Thanks. Great violinist. I played as a child. It's a miraculous instrument. Develops your JDPriestly Jun 2016 #3

Penn Station's beauty died for Madison Square Garden ThoughtCriminal Jun 2016 #4

Stunning flamingdem Jun 2016 #5

JDPriestly

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1. In Los Angeles' Union Station, we now have a piano that apparently is sort of available

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Jun 6, 2016, 01:55 AM

Jun 2016

for public use on a kind of open mic all the time basis.

It's fun. Lots of people seem to be making their public debuts at that piano.

Maybe we will develop a tradition like that of Penn Station. I'd like that.

And no, I have not used the piano myself. It's always been in use when I was there.