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Pianist plays 7 levels of ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ with increasing virtuosity

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Andrea Bocelli duets with his son Matteo at the 96th Academy Awards.

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Maria João Pires in 1999, when she had learned the wrong piano concerto.

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