More miscellany
Dutch had her recital today. The 20-odd performers were piano and voice students of three teachers in a music co-op, and they ranged in age from maybe 5 to maybe 35, and in skill from just beginning to what seemed to my non-musical ears to be somewhat competent. The last performer played the piano AND sang.* This just about blew my mind. I can't imagine being able to play the piano with two hands doing different things, and the idea of then adding singing to that is staggering to me. Watching this unbelievable thing taking place RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME was like watching another human being sprout wings and fly. This wasn't a person who is launching a musical career, either, just a normal human being with a day job who is taking piano and voice lessons. It was great. I loved every minute of the recital. Dutch carried off her performance with aplomb. I have no idea if she played it right, but she was very composed and calm. She enjoyed the other performances, too, and sat raptly through everything. Watching her play, and watching the other more and less advanced students play, made me feel even more sure that I want to keep her in piano lessons for as long as she sustains interest. Particularly given that she won't be getting any music at school...
In other news, we're in the middle of a solar eclipse! And we got to look at it with our new solar-viewing glasses I got for the upcoming transit of venus! Thanks, Astronomers Without Borders!
We briefly had a house guest, which was lovely. Dutch, as usual, followed him everywhere, talking and showing off. Skipper took longer to warm up, but was very sad to see him go.
Oh, and Dutch finished her 4H poster. It's titled "Rabbits are Amazing!" Cook and I managed to convince her to leave off the most egregious invented "facts," so the final draft is mostly non-fiction.
Skipper woke up from an exceptionally long nap too late to attend Dutch's recital and the subsequent library/grocery trip, so she and Cook made pizza and weeded the garden. He reported that he put on some music and she told him she didn't like it, she prefers "violent music." After some discussion about what she meant by that, he put on the Dead Kennedys, of which she approved.
*She sang an Adele song, so it wasn't the sort of singing-along that I can actually do, where you just sing along with the melody that the instrument is playing.
In other news, we're in the middle of a solar eclipse! And we got to look at it with our new solar-viewing glasses I got for the upcoming transit of venus! Thanks, Astronomers Without Borders!
We briefly had a house guest, which was lovely. Dutch, as usual, followed him everywhere, talking and showing off. Skipper took longer to warm up, but was very sad to see him go.
Oh, and Dutch finished her 4H poster. It's titled "Rabbits are Amazing!" Cook and I managed to convince her to leave off the most egregious invented "facts," so the final draft is mostly non-fiction.
Skipper woke up from an exceptionally long nap too late to attend Dutch's recital and the subsequent library/grocery trip, so she and Cook made pizza and weeded the garden. He reported that he put on some music and she told him she didn't like it, she prefers "violent music." After some discussion about what she meant by that, he put on the Dead Kennedys, of which she approved.
*She sang an Adele song, so it wasn't the sort of singing-along that I can actually do, where you just sing along with the melody that the instrument is playing.
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