Recital

Jun 17, 2009 12:54

I'm as nervous as a long-tailed polecat in a room full of rocking chairs. Friday is the first (and possibly last) hard-core piano recital I've ever thrown in my 30 years of dabbling away at that instrument. An hour's worth of complicated Chopin is making my poor, simple country head swim ( Read more... )

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geekwitch June 17 2009, 18:28:45 UTC
Next time, perhaps I will jet down for the performance. I wish I could be there though - I'd help assemble MORE bar stools!

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talktooloose June 17 2009, 18:29:05 UTC
I decided that I'm going to give a concert for my 50th birthday. Luckily, I still have four years to plan the event.

Have a good show! Remember, it's not about you. You are merely a vessel for Chopin...

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gritsnyc June 17 2009, 23:49:44 UTC
What are the chances you could set up a webcam for the performance? I would love to be there in whatever spirit is possible from NYC.

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marquisdd June 17 2009, 23:57:46 UTC
No webcam. But I may tape it. I can send you a disc, if it works out.

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gritsnyc June 18 2009, 00:07:57 UTC
Please do. But it has to get here before July 24!

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qfu June 18 2009, 00:24:35 UTC
I vote for the webcam too! If you simply MUST live so far away, then you owe it to those of us whom you have so cruelly left behind to permit us some pathetic form of access.Prop your laptop up next to my portrait! Ben might have some secret-spy-gadget! C'mon...toss us a bone!

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uproar June 18 2009, 02:01:43 UTC
Dave and I are planning on coming. I don't remember if we formally RSVP'd. We should be able to bring chairs too, I'll try to remember.

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similes qfu June 18 2009, 14:52:06 UTC
I would also like to comment on your opening simile, if I may. Really, is the first word that comes to mind when considering a polecat in a room full of rocking chairs actually 'nervous'??? Wouldn't said polecat actually be more 'risky' or 'dangerous', or perhaps even 'fraught', which I see more and more often used as a noun (as in 'satiated') instead of an adjective (such as 'replete'). When IIIIIIII was a child, the word 'fraught' was ALWAYS accompanied by the word 'with', but kids these days, they just call a body 'fraught' and leave it at that. I tell ya, grammar just ain't what it used to be!

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