ShiroKuro This is of of the main things that always gets me, is the wait to play!
All an unknown for me, ShiroKuro. Other than two times at a Tonebase event last summer, this is the first time I've played for more than three people in more than 60 years. Let alone the whole waiting thing.
You may notice my attire - expecting that there'd be a wait, I'm wearing an LL Bean windbreaker, clodhopper shoes, and was wearing gloves during the hour and a half of sitting and waiting.
I'm so used to playing with headphones all the time that it's a challenge to try to adapt my ears to that large instrument in a large room and to tell whether I'm voicing the chords as I'd like.
Voicing? Heck... just staring at those rows of black and white sticks beneath my fingers and trying to figure out what to do with them!
But such a treat to try to tune out the world and just enjoy that lovely instrument.
And I wasn't even at the end. In all, the recital went a bit past two and a half hours, and included string players, a two-piano movement of a Rachmaninoff concerto, as well as those of us struggling to play some solo piano for a few minutes.
