“Music still flows through my hands,” Eleonora Arkadevya Breslav smiled as she was escorted to the public piano in Kazan during the 2018 FIFA World Cup and proceeded to mesmerize tourists by flawlessly performing Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, her nimble fingers dancing across worn keys with a radiant joy that lit up the square and proved age is no barrier to artistry.
Introduction In 2018, the YouTube channel “Life Goes On In Iran” filmed an unforgettable moment on a bustling Kazan street,…