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After The Recital

3/13/2018

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     On Thursday, March 8, my piano students performed their spring recital in the beautiful performance hall of Graves Piano and Organ.
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        And on Friday, March 9, I was basking in that familiar mix of relief and gemütlichkeit that permeates what is for me the best day of the year: the day after a piano recital.    
      There's nothing like that day after a recital: several days' worth of pre-performance anxiety has finally dissipated, the nerves have gone back into their cerebral cages, and I float on the bearable lightness of being on the other side the event.
        Invariably, on the day after a recital several times during the day I'll feel a twinge of unease, a squeeze of angst, a flutter of nervousness, then I'll remember, No, wait, it's over, and that's the very best feeling.
         And yet, in truth, I generally start feeling better already on the night of the recital, as I did this recital night after I'd arrived at the hall 
and had a chance to run through my pieces,
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​...and when my good friend and program-printer Marianne arrived with the programs,  seat tags,
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...and her husband Nick, my wonderful videographer,  here with Tom, who is likewise always a source of help and moral support.
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     And when the hall  was set up and recital ready and my students began arriving and warming up for their performances in the practice room,
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​...the younger ones looking so cute and excited,
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...then my jitters, as always,  started morphing into hopeful excitement as well.    
    And, as always, once my students began playing, I felt a mix of pride and gratitude,     

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...and it was well with my soul.
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     After the recital my crew and I headed over to our usual après-recital celebratory spot, the Hunan House, a Chinese restaurant  down the street from the recital hall on E. Dublin-Granville Road,
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​...with the most charming interior,
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...and the yummiest food.
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     Or maybe it's just  that  food always tastes so much better after the recital.
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     Hear my book interview by Scottish reviewer Fiona Mcvie of "Authors Interviews."
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