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Recital Time Again

9/23/2019

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      Last Thursday, September 19, my four remaining piano students, a couple of former students, several guest performers, and and audience of parents, grandparents, siblings,  and other assorted friends and family members met once again at Graves Recital Hall,
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...for our Fall recital.
      For my students and myself the recitals are a goal, a reason to keep on practicing, practicing, practicing,

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...and polishing, polishing, polishing our pieces,
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...until our pieces are performance-ready to play on Graves' nine-foot Steinway concert grand. 
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      Recitals are always a mix of excitement and nerves, for me as well as for my students - in fact, I'd venture to say, probably even more so for me than for my students, especially in the nerves department.
      That is to say, I'm always nervous on recital nights,

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...at least until the playing begins.
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     Then it becomes wonderful for me to watch my students play,
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...or to play with them,
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...and to observe with satisfaction, or sometimes even marvel at, the progress they've made.
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      And it does my heart good to see former students who've grown into accomplished pianists now playing for love and willing to come back and perform at our recitals,
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...and sometimes even tell us a little about their piece, in this performer's case the beautiful Chopin Prelude in D Flat Major, also called the "Raindrop Prelude,"
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...because the plinking of the keys evokes falling rain.
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     This time we had a couple of guest performers, as we do from time to time, and so we were treated to - and inspired by - a lively rendition of Chopin's "Minute Waltz"  
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...and a very entertaining duo who played some wonderful traditional Irish tunes.
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       Then after it was over we all basked in that great feeling of post-performance relief and jubilation,
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...and my hubby Tom, my Irish fiddler friend and I headed to our perennial post-recital destination,
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...where I, for one, basked some more.
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