Georgian pianist Salome Jordania is an award-winning young pianist who toured Germany, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ukraine, Russia, and the USA. “When you cannot afford to travel, imagination will make up for it”, wrote Claude Debussy over one hundred years ago, meaning: one doesn’t need to have deep knowledge about a country and its art to sketch its portrait. The exoticism of French composers took inspiration from bits and pieces of information: universal expositions, drawings, photographs, stories. By blending these elements with their own world, romantic or symbolist, they were nonetheless able to take their audience to dreamlike destinations—sometimes, accompanying them for the very first time. An enchantment only music can make.
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