ICYMI: "Sapiens: A Human History at the Piano" feat. Sean Hickey

26 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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To me, this was among most of the pieces I've written, like a real artistic imperative for me. In early 2018, I read the book of the same name by Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. And he is a great historian and thinker. And Sapiens, after reading the first page, I could hardly turn it because I was just incredibly inspired by and moved by this incredibly large and wide scope of things. And for me, I read it and I had no idea what was to come next, but I just felt that it was imperative for me that in some way I was going to fashion a piece of music out of the inspiration that I found in this book.
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