{"id":1061373,"date":"2022-04-19T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/goosebumps-man-plays-piano-outside-lviv-railway-station-amid-bomb-sirens-leaves-netizens-in-tears\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T22:36:11","slug":"goosebumps-man-plays-piano-outside-lviv-railway-station-amid-bomb-sirens-leaves-netizens-in-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/goosebumps-man-plays-piano-outside-lviv-railway-station-amid-bomb-sirens-leaves-netizens-in-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Goosebumps\u2019: Man plays piano outside Lviv railway station amid bomb sirens, leaves netizens in tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>As Russian forces continue to attack Ukrainian towns, <strong>people fleeing their homeland<\/strong> have been comforted by artists who have tried to make them feel less anxious through their music. Now, a video of a pianist playing through the blaring sound of bomb sirens outside Lviv Railway Station has netizens feeling heartbroken.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In the video doing rounds on the internet, as hapless victims of the ongoing war are being urged to take shelter by the local police amid air sirens, instead of running away the pianist keeps <strong>playing in defiance<\/strong>. The poignant moment caught on camera by photojournalist John Stanmeyer showed Ukrainian pianist Alex playing louder against the air raid warning.<\/p>\n<p>As he kept playing Hans Zimmer\u2019s <em>\u2018Time\u2019<\/em>, the original sound score from Christopher Nolan\u2019s directorial <em>Inception<\/em>, another person joined in to play a few chords. \u201cA simple, overwhelming one-minute passion against fear, against war,\u201d wrote Stanmeyer about the touching moment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CbUeSOOMnWL\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe went on and on, never letting go,\u201d the photojournalist added, stunned by the artist\u2019s grit and passion. \u201cWould love to share with you Alex\u2019s complete giving,\u201d Stanmeyer added, however, explaining that the air raid app on his phone stopped the camera from recording.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy inner protest to sirens, bombs, murders, war!\u201d the pianist wrote on his personal Instagram handle sharing the haunting beautiful moment tagging Zimmer. Quoting a powerful poem by poet Taras Shevchenko, he hoped the victory would be of his country adding, \u201cSlava Ukraini!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The young artist has been playing outside the station in western Ukraine which has become a place where families say goodbyes before leaving to seek refuge in neighbouring countries. \u201cI play cause it is the best I can do and I believe that by playing music I\u2019m filling their hearts with peace and hope,\u201d he wrote in another Instagram post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CbPWuc2Naay\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe hope that we will meet again at this station, but another time really soon. Only that time I will not be playing for people fleeing. But to meet them in the country, free of war,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The video left netizens teary-eyed online, who were blown away by his strength and vigour, and said it\u2019s hard to believe the music wasn\u2019t being played in one of the scenes from a dystopian movie but was really happening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7832717 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/gp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/lviv-station-piano-air-sirens-reax.jpg\" alt width=\"650\" height=\"737\">\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Russian forces continue to attack Ukrainian towns, people fleeing their homeland have been comforted by artists who have tried to make them feel less anxious through their music. Now, a video of a pianist playing through the blaring sound of bomb sirens outside Lviv Railway Station has netizens feeling heartbroken. 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