Three Minutes at a Steinway
November 18th, 2007 by admincontemplating incipient sea change
Last New Year’s Eve, I found myself at the piano after a 20-year absence. As a direct result, I am now faced with the largely self-inflicted terror of playing a Bach prelude at a recital.
The recital takes place in the beautiful chapel of a stately old mansion, one of the “seven castles” of Clifton — now a nursing home. Fortunately this means that much of the audience cannot hear. However, I cannot help but recall the debut of my younger daughter Marla’s choir at an Alzheimer’s unit when one of the residents yelled out angrily,
I believe he also threw something, but that could just be me embellishing.
And while even I can see the humor of being dangled out as unwilling bait to an audience that may lack the inhibition Read the rest of this entry »
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