{"id":2910,"date":"2021-02-26T20:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T01:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2022-01-27T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:23:14","slug":"mahani-teave-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/mahani-teave-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Pianist Mahani Teave Interviewed by the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0\">\n<h1 id=\"link-1ff0156e\" class=\"css-hzs6w4 e1h9rw200\" data-test-id=\"headline\">From Easter Island, a Pianist Emerges<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-w6ymp8 e1wiw3jv0\">Mahani Teave, 38 and likely the only professional classical performer from the remote island, has released her first album.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2738\" src=\"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/18-03-30-Rapa-Nui-0118-05953-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/18-03-30-Rapa-Nui-0118-05953-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/18-03-30-Rapa-Nui-0118-05953-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/18-03-30-Rapa-Nui-0118-05953-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<header class=\"css-c58brx euiyums1\">\n<div class=\"css-18e8msd\">\n<div class=\"css-vp77d3 epjyd6m0\">\n<div class=\"css-1baulvz\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-4z5zii e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">By <\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Thomas May<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"css-1u1psjv epjyd6m3\">\n<li class=\"css-ccw2r3 epjyd6m1\"><time class=\"css-129k401 e16638kd0\" datetime=\"2021-02-26T10:00:07-05:00\">Feb. 26, 2021\u00a0<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">From her home, halfway up the highest hill on Rapa Nui, Mahani Teave was describing the power of nature there to overwhelm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cOn one side, I have an almost 180-degree view of the ocean,\u201d she said in a recent interview. \u201cA big fog is coming in from the hill on the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The profusion of stars gives the black of the sky a seemingly \u201cpapier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 texture,\u201d she said. When the sounds of crickets cease, profound silence completes \u201ca stunning experience for the senses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Teave, 38, learned to appreciate such stirring encounters while growing up on Rapa Nui \u2014 also known as Easter Island, the name imposed by European interlopers in 1722. From there, one of the remotest inhabited islands on the planet, this pianist went on to earn a place on the international concert stage. But rather than press on with a career of incessant touring, and quite possibly the only professional classical performer to emerge from Rapa Nui to date, she decided to return and establish the first music school on the small island nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>But she hasn\u2019t stopped playing. Teave\u2019s debut album, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/rubiconclassics.com\/release\/rapa-nui-odyssey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cRapa Nui Odyssey,\u201d<\/a> was recently released on the British label Rubicon Classics. The recording project inspired <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/433760162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cSong of Rapa Nui,\u201d<\/a> a new documentary streaming on Amazon Prime, directed by the Emmy Award-winning producer and filmmaker John Forsen and narrated by Audra McDonald.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">It was at Teave\u2019s island school that the Seattle-based musician, rare string instrument collector and arts patron David Fulton had a chance encounter with her as part of a world cruise with his wife in the spring of 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/26\/arts\/music\/mahani-teave-easter-island-piano-classical-music.html\">Read the full story in the New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Easter Island, a Pianist Emerges Mahani Teave, 38 and likely the only professional classical performer from the remote island, has released her first album. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; By Thomas May Feb. 26, 2021\u00a0 From her home, halfway up the highest hill on Rapa Nui, Mahani Teave was describing the power of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"related-artist":[34],"class_list":{"0":"post-2910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-press","8":"related-artist-mahani-teave","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"related-artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related-artist?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}