The Piano

The piano

SUMMARY
SIR ANTHONY EVANS PLAYS LISZT. These words stood above the door of the theatre. Hundreds of people were waiting at the pay-desk. It was Anthony's eightieth amniversary concertand everyone wanted a ticket. One of these people was Sally Hill: a journalist for the newspaper ‘The Sunday Times’. Sally wanted an interview with this famous pianist. In Anthony’s room she startedwith the interview:
Tell something about yourself, do you come of a musical family? Did you learn playing the piano you was three, such as Mozart? Then the pianist laughed, and tells his story:
 
 I was the first musician in my family. I left school when I was 13. Everyone called me Tony. I lived in a poor family of 6 children, and I was the oldest. We lived in a very small house at the end ofa long grey street. The toilet was outside, and we had no bathroom. But we had enough to eat. I didn’t feel poor because all my friends were poor too. All my friends found work in a shop or factory. Ididn’t want that, but I needed work because my family needed money. My mother asked I wanted a job on a farm. A couple days later I went to the farm were my mother worked in former days. From thatday I worked on the farm of Mr Wood. He said that I was a good strong boy and I worked very hard for him. I slept in a small room on the attic. He didn’t pay me much, but Mr Wood was nice to me, heconsidered me as his son. He had one daughter, named Linda, she was a year younger. In the school holidays I got a job from Mr Wood with Pip and John. Mr Wood wanted that we cleaned the building for hisnew car. We were started with cleaning and saw a piano. I played I beautiful song without knowing it was a song. I asked to Mr Wood what we had to do with the piano. He said dispose of, but I didn’twant that. The next day we had to mow a massive grass field. Opposite that field stood a school. And of the one / the other time we put the piano in the school, because it was holiday. Every evening I...