March 12th - Day 328

Live music in Room 18 of The National Gallery was advertised as a solo recital by pianist Anna Peletsis, and it was the sound of her piano that led me past the paintings of Rubens, van Dyck, El Greco, Turner and others into Room 18, where people lolled contentedly on seats and on the floor against walls on which hung paintings from 17th Century France. The piano was at the far end of the room. Half way through the recital, the pianist was joined by a violinist. Gallery-goers were then treated to fifteen stunning minutes of George Gershwin. People who were wandering through from the Rembrandt room, stopped and watched. Others in adjoining rooms sat down and listened in silence. At the recital's end the duo were applauded and whistled back into the room three times. The violinist wasn't advertised and it took a little bit of google detective work to work out that he may have been a young Russian musician called Ilya Movchan.

Photography is frowned upon inside The National Gallery, so here's a photo of the scene outside.