Final round of the competition brought forward to Friday so competitors and others involved could escape imminent inundation
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It wasn’t quite the doomed band on the Titanic playing on heroically, but the finalists in this year’s Australian National Piano Award were faced with an unexpected challenge as floodwaters rose around the Riverlinks Eastbank theatre in Shepparton, where the event was due to complete its semi-final stage on Friday.
“That would be a very dramatic way of putting it,” said Anthony Chen, 27, although he said he had never experienced conditions like it in his musical career.