Sunday, December 20, 2009
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.
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