Recital Recordings

Two of the four kiddidles had a piano recital this evening. 

Here’s kid #1.

Here’s kid #2.

Great job!

1. Puppy pictures, recital recordings,...you’re turning this into a Mommy Blog! 

   Posted by on April 27, 2008 at 2218 hrs




2. FANTASTIC !!!#1 and #2.  Love you!!

   Posted by on April 28, 2008 at 1040 hrs




3. Sounds great.  Kid #1 has been playing longer I take it?

   How many years of lessons is that respectively? Kid 1 and 2?

   I hate to make comments like this cause everyone says it, but I wish I had learned to play piano.

   I’ve been looking at a player baby-grand for my new house. As soon as my old house sells I’m going to pull the trigger on it.

   I can play a few songs that my uncle taught me and would love to tinker and learn a few more.

   Posted by on April 28, 2008 at 1216 hrs




4. They sound great!

   xxpilot, thanks for the words of reenforcement.  My oldest is taking lessons and at times she complains and wants to quit.  I refuse to let her until she has a few years under her belt and makes the decision not to continue based on being able to evaluate, based on her knowledge and experience, whether she wants to continue, but not while she’s still in the beginning stages and doesn’t yet know enough to accurately decide whether she likes it or not.  I’ll continue to make her keep practicing!

   Posted by Cate on April 28, 2008 at 1308 hrs




5. Kid #1 is finishing her fifth year of lessons, and Kid #2 is at the end of her second year.  I wish I had learned, too.  Instead, I played the stupid oboe because the band already had too many flute people.  All the cool people wanted to play the flute.

   Posted by on April 28, 2008 at 1432 hrs




6. My oldest is taking lessons and at times she complains and wants to quit. 

   Yeah, I’m not a parent, (someday hopefully) but it must be such a fine line to walk.  On one hand its not right to live vicariously thru your kids and have them do something just because you wish you did, but at the same point left to their own devices, kids might not get out and explore their horizons and discover things.  You have to make them get involved.

   Good luck!  Its such a wonderful talent.  Piano or Guitar, great instruments to learn.  Very social instruments that you can have fun with in the future.  I played drums… Can’t sit around with the family and listen to someone play the drums.  lol

   If your child was a boy (well I guess its applicable to both) I’d have a different ‘motivator’. I’d tell this story:

   When I was a Freshman at DePaul University in Chicago summer of 1992 we had to go for a weekend during the summer for ‘orientation’.

   It was a hugely fun day, tour of the Lincoln Park Campus, meet your classmates, double decker bus tour of the mag mile and LSD back to campus for pizza and ‘casino night’.

   In the historic hall where the pizza was served, there was a piano.  As we started to file into the hall and people were kinda tentatively trying to figure out who to sit with (everyone was a stranger to each other pretty much) this kid sits down and starts playing John Lennon “Imagine” on the piano. Not showing off, just plunking away, but as people started to hear him play, it got quieter and then a couple of the bolder people started to sing along (i mean every knows imagine!), and as people filed in, a couple cute girls plop down on the bench next to him singing along and this hall of a couple hundred scared freshmen turned into a lively social bunch signing “Imagine”

   All cause some kid knew how to play the piano.

   Posted by on April 28, 2008 at 1606 hrs




7. Cate,

   Another idea… If you ever make it to State Fair you should take your daughter past Lucilles Rockin Piano tent.

   She’ll see what a fun social instrument the piano can be!

   (I’d say take her to Lucilles on old world 3rd, but its probably not good advice to take a child to a bar!  lol)

   Posted by on April 28, 2008 at 1611 hrs