And to nudge to slow down mid-duet. (Please take Dramamine before watching: Two siblings were trying to watch the performance through the camera lens. Plus the video gets distorted and the audio finishes before the video when I spliced it because the file was so huge.
Oh, and listen for one sib humming along.)
Smalls and Bridger have been working on this piece since September and I am so proud of them! Even though as their piano teacher I had endured a hundred hours of preparing for this performance I still got emotional hearing it. As they performed I was transported through time to when I played this song with my buddy, Rebecca, twenty years ago. I remember being just as nervous as they were when they saw their turn was next and shot each other panicked glances. While Rebecca and I waited our turn nerves made her hands cold and mine hot so we would hold hands until our turn on the program, trying to even them out.
Good news for you, boys: I am still in touch with my friend Rebecca. Playing Canon in D in recital together makes you friends for life.
7 comments:
Awesome job Conner! Blake, is that you shushing? Ha ha ha.
Con and I have the same water bottle!! the only thing I can drink from.
I love Cannon in D! We had our "Family Orchestra" play it for the family reunion. It was one of the early songs my son learned on his violin. Your bpys did great!
I'm very impressed! Great work!
Way to go Con!! That's my favorite song of all time!
I have to ask: Rebecca who? The boys played great!(I love love that song).
When I had to play a duet as a kid, my nerves made me giggle through the whole thing. A-nnoying. Ugh.
Rebecca Neiderer of course. We played duets together for years at the Ricks College Piano Festival. And for recitals and church events. Rebecca and I pretty much went through all childhood rites as a team- We even had Driver's Ed together. Come to think of it, maybe that's what cemented us as friends for life and it had nothing to do with Canon?
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