I am calling this post Recital #2 because it was my second one. I already put one on last Saturday for my Southlake/St. Peter’s students, but I don’t have any pictures from that one yet, so I haven’t written a post on it yet.
This recital was for the 4 students that I still have through my old music studio from last year. 4 students is a far cry from the 30+ that I had last year, but I still had to go, show up early, clean up, etc. Add onto it that I was given the WRONG time by the music company’s director (my STUDENTS corrected me…!) and it made for a more stressful event than it needed to be.
But I just had to share one of the performances with you because I think it’s impressive, funny, and endearing, all at the same time. The performance was impressive because the performer, Mattie, just turned 5 and is going into Kindergarten next year. She’s a big slap in the face for all the companies out there who say that 5 is too young to start piano.
The performance is funny because…well, she is using the pedal in the song, and normally students who are using the pedal are older, taller, with longer legs. With this tall bench, she had to sort of brace herself, halfway off the bench, which meant that she was slowly sliding backwards the entire song. I saw it happening, but didn’t want to startle her by moving her closer in.
The endearing part of this clip is that even though Mattie had to STOP in the middle in order to scoot back in, even though the audience thought she was finished and started clapping, she still kept poised, cool, confident. I have seriously never seen such stage presence in a person. She’s one of those children who makes you feel insecure in comparison.
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