The Hague, Neverlands They couldn’t set the piano on fire. That was the only bad news. Annea Lockwood, the New Zealand born composer and academic whose work provided a curatorial north star for the 13th edition of Rewire Festival, was supposed to stage her 1968 piece Piano Burning as an opening concert. The piece, as the title suggests, consists of an upright piano (not grand) set ablaze with the musician playing whatever they like for as long as they physically and mentally can.