The soothing sound of a grand piano drifted across Taksim Square, bringing a welcome calm a day after violence rocked the area.
Throughout the day protesters had been readying themselves for another assault by police.
But then, in the space of a few hours, the atmosphere in the square changed; and it had a lot to do with one man and his piano.
Hundreds gathered around German musician Davide Martello as he clinked away late into the evening. They were mostly silent... See More
The soothing sound of a grand piano drifted across Taksim Square, bringing a welcome calm a day after violence rocked the area.
Throughout the day protesters had been readying themselves for another assault by police.
But then, in the space of a few hours, the atmosphere in the square changed; and it had a lot to do with one man and his piano.
Hundreds gathered around German musician Davide Martello as he clinked away late into the evening. They were mostly silent while he played John Lennon’s Imagine, some Bach, and his own composition “Lightsoldiers.”
