It is very beautiful, but it does seem like a pain in the ass to practice. Do you get to practice on the stage before you do the real thing?
I'll get a couple minutes to warm up and see what the piano feels like. Not much of a preparation. But honestly, pianos at stages like that have the tendency of being quite... incredible. An average model D steinway costing upwards of $90,000 carries a bit of comfort and adaptability with it :D still, its not easy
My upright at home was <$4k. Seeing people with bosendorfers and steinways, I think that no one man should wield such power.
My father forbid piano music from being played in the home, let alone the possession of a piano. When I was 17 I traded my oboe straight across for an RS505 and never looked back. As soon as I left the house, of course, my mother brought home some raggedy-ass YMCA upright. Nobody knew how to play it. When she left my dad 10 years later she and her new husband bought a Kimball, just to entice people over to their house to play quartets. Me? I've got an A-80 and a K2500XS so y'all can bite me. ;-)
A. You show 'em chief B. Why did your dad forbid piano music!??!
I've tried questioning my parents for the longest time. Hopeless. Now I just learn from their mistakes as much as my own and hopefully turn out okay :D