Rondo Alla Turca- Mozart

Blizzard outside my studio

My piano is ready for Music

playing music in a Blizzard

I am on a two week vacation.  What opportunity to just play piano all day.  Yet, I have distractions just outside my studio door.  My children are home as well and they are watching movies.  I am one to be completely sucked into television.  It's an old habit from childhood.  I feel regret that they watch as much as they do.  At this age I can no longer be an influence - the media world is a much stronger influence.  We have books and radio and cooking. But that TV blares in the background.  Sigh!  So I rush through to find my piano and the pile of music on it.  There is Debussy and Prokofiev, Mendelssohn and Chopin and Schumann.  It's a lot of music and I have to also be careful not to spread myself to thin.  I am setting my goals to keeping the Mendelssohn Variation Serieuses in shape and the concerto No. 3 of Prokofiev, and I want to learn the 2nd movement of the prokofiev.  That should be enough for now.  I think I will treat myself to an hour of music exploration each day and that should keep it from spreading to every moment at the piano.  That and bake a pie and make pecan bars.

This is my group for Book 4 coming this Fall.