Photographs

The stage door,
the piano,
the flowers.

37 photographs from her own archive. Carnegie Hall mostly, and then an outdoor stage in Times Square, a church, a room with an oil painting on the wall.

The stage after a concert, the grand piano standing open and a large floral basket at its right — 01

Carnegie Hall at night from 57th Street, an American flag over the lit red awning and people passing on the sidewalk — 02

Katya Grineva from behind in a black gown, waiting in the backstage doorway that opens onto the Carnegie Hall stage — 03

Katya Grineva framed in the backstage doorway, the lit hall filling the space behind her — 04

Katya Grineva smiling in the backstage doorway, a red flower at the waist of her black gown — 05

Backstage, Katya Grineva laughing with a hand in her hair while a man passes behind her — 06

The Carnegie Hall auditorium from stage level, tiers of lit boxes rising into the dark, Katya Grineva small and in white at the piano — 07

Katya Grineva in a black ball gown standing beside a Steinway grand, the gilt hall warm behind her — 08

Katya Grineva laughing beside the open Steinway in a black gown — 09

Katya Grineva bowing with one hand resting on the piano lid, in a black gown — 10

Katya Grineva walking away down a cream Carnegie Hall corridor in a black gown — 11

Katya Grineva playing in a black gown strapped with red roses, the audience blurred behind her — 12

Katya Grineva in a red gown at the piano, a tall white floral arrangement standing at her right — 13

Katya Grineva in an olive satin gown at the Steinway, seen across the width of the stage — 14

Katya Grineva in a yellow tiered gown beside the Steinway on the Carnegie Hall stage — 15

Katya Grineva in the yellow gown beside the piano, red roses lying across the lid — 16

Katya Grineva leaning down from the stage in a yellow gown to take lilies from a kneeling audience member — 17

Katya Grineva at the stage edge in the yellow gown, taking flowers from the audience while a phone films from the front row — 18

Katya Grineva in a coral gown beside the Steinway, holding a single red rose — 19

Katya Grineva in the yellow gown walking across the empty stage — 20

Katya Grineva in the coral gown at the piano, framed wide against the empty stage — 21

The house seen past the piano, Katya Grineva in the coral gown playing to a full auditorium — 22

Katya Grineva at the piano in a dark gown, bouquets across the lid and a basket of red roses at her right, the audience in silhouette — 23

Katya Grineva in a cream lace dress beside a lit Christmas tree, a marble staircase and statue behind her — 24

Katya Grineva in an ivory tulle gown at a black grand piano in a private room, an oil painting and stained glass behind her — 25

Black and white portrait of Katya Grineva seated at a grand piano, turned toward the camera — 26

Katya Grineva standing by the piano in a dark gown, a cellist playing at her right — 27

Katya Grineva at a grand piano at the front of a church, the congregation in the pews before her — 28

Katya Grineva on an outdoor platform in Times Square while a crew sets up a keyboard, billboards rising behind — 29

Katya Grineva seated at an open grand piano, smiling toward the camera — 30

Three wrapped bouquets of red and yellow flowers resting on the closed Steinway lid — 31

Katya Grineva with a man in a tuxedo and dark glasses, a large black and white orchestra photograph on the wall behind them — 32

Katya Grineva at an open grand piano on a wooden stage, red flowers banked at her right — 33

An early portrait of Katya Grineva at the piano in a black and white halter top — 34

An early portrait of Katya Grineva in a black and red off shoulder dress, leaning on the piano — 35

A grainy sepia portrait of Katya Grineva laughing, her hair long and dark — 36

An early frame, Katya Grineva smiling behind bouquets at the piano — 37

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