Today was my second day back at the seniors community performing. Every time I go, I feel like I'm entering a sauna because it's always SO hot, no matter what weather it is outside! Yesterday was pretty terrible because I wore a cotton dress shirt which left me sweating like a pig!
My daily schedule is: play for an hour on two of the seniors community's 4 floors, and then for another hour in the café. Every night I choose things that will make up about an hour's worth of music, and then play the same stuff two or three times.
Today I performed Schubert's 6 Moments-musicaux along with a charming Mozart sonata. The dementia floor is always funny because this one lady is very "vocal". At the end of the Mozart sonata's big finish, she was cussing at me for being disrespectful! hehe...what would Mozart think of that?
Well, I was in the café today and was astounded once again by the AWFUL state of the piano. The high notes didn't even work and some of the keys stuck after I hit them!
Embarrassing stuff...so I compromised and played stuff that didn't require so big of a range and stuff that required a more "atmospheric" (i.e. hazy and muddy) sound from the piano. So it worked out.
Tomorrow, to celebrate the *Royal Wedding*, I'm thinking about playing some variations on British themes by Beethoven and sonatas by Haydn+Mozart? Very aristocratic indeed...
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Each one salutes me as he goes,
And I my childish plumes
Lift, in bereaved acknowledgement
Of their unthinking drums.
- Emily Dickinson