A team of 40 pianists joined together on Thursday to perform the world’s longest piano piece.
The composition, called Vexations, lasts for 18 hours. It’s being performed at Contemporary Calgary, in the 100 block of f Stephen Avenue S.W., by a group dubbed Esther’s Piano Relay Team.
The musical marathon began at 4:30 a.m. and runs until midnight.
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Vexations was written by French composer Erik Satie. The performance is being held in honour of Satie’s 150th birthday (which would have been in May) as part of the 2016 Honens Festival.
“It’s one of these pieces that can either hypnotize – or maybe create kind of a zen-like state,” Honens Festival artistic director Stephen McHolm said.
BELOW: Esther’s Piano Relay Team rundown
| 4:30 am | Derek Chiu | 1:50 pm | Michèle Stanners |
| 4:58 am | Les Der | 2:18 pm | Logan Mills |
| 5:26 am | Bridget Robinson | 2:46 pm | Angelo Toselli |
| 5:54 am | Mila Brandman | 3:14 pm | Kevin Tucker |
| 6:22 am | Angela Baker | 3:42 pm | Alix Tucker |
| 6:50 am | Andrea Bosnjak | 4:10 pm | Russ Weninger |
| 7:18 am | Wendy Liu | 4:38 pm | Carlos Foggin |
| 7:46 am | Nathan Cho | 5:06 pm | Bruce Petherick |
| 8:14 am | Donna Williams | 5:34 pm | Annie Cen |
| 8:42 am | Marley Gillies | 6:02 pm | Hilary Tong |
| 9:10 am | Michael Coburn | 6:30 pm | Karl Hirzer |
| 9:38 am | Chris Vander Pyl | 6:58 pm | Claire Butler |
| 10:06 am | Mark Limacher | 7:26 pm | Rhea Balderston |
| 10:34 am | Lisa Cheng | 7:54 pm | Angela Gosselin |
| 11:02 am | Stephen McHolm | 8:22 pm | Keke Zhang |
| 11:30 am | Kelly Schuler | 8:50 pm | Taylor Lang |
| 11:58 am | Madeleine Giraudeau | 9:18 pm | Linh Tran |
| 12:26 pm | Michelle Gregoire | 9:46 pm | Artem Yasynskyy |
| 12:54 pm | Carmen Morin | 10:14 pm | Minsoo Sohn |
| 1:22 pm | Rena Ahmadova | 10:42 pm | Marc-André Hamelin |
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