You may remember that I’m scheduled to play in a concert, it’s in late November. Since I haven’t really done anything like that since the pandemic, I thought it would be a good idea to play in the recital at the community music school where I take lessons. The idea is just to refresh my (bodily) memory of what it’s like to get up to play an unfamiliar piano in front of a bunch of people, and see if I can get my hands to shake so I can experience playing through the shaky hands.
When I signed up for this recital, it seemed like the recital was far, far in the future. But now all of a sudden, it’s next week! I’ll be playing three pieces in the concert, but the recital rules are that each performer can only play one piece, so I picked the one that gives me the most trouble. It’s still giving me some trouble, so I have some misgivings about that. :/
As far as I know, I will be the only adult in this recital. Also, I think they pick the performance order loosely based on the difficulty of the piece, so I’ll probably be playing near the end, but also probably not at the very end. Hopefully there will be some hot shot high school student playing something really advanced after me.
It would be a lot better if there were other adults in the recital, but ah well.
Anyway, stay tuned, I’ll add updates after my lesson this week (when maybe I’ll have more info?) and then of course I’ll come back and give a recital report.