June 2011
17 posts
Starting over
I don’t practice playing the piano now as much as I did before. And now I’m faced with a book-long, 2-piano Haydn piece due to be performed early next year.
I want to be able to play it, but the thing is, I think I need to start all over again. I tried playing my old Haydn pieces and I suddenly found that my fingers can’t keep up with the trills and technically-challenging parts that Haydn is known for. I’ve lost the old dexterity of my fingers and now I have to slowly learn it again. The piece that would been enjoyably studied in my early years have now become laborious. My fingers have to be slowly prepared and that means a few months with Czerny before I can even begin to look at Haydn.
But the most challenging part of all of this is, I can’t seem to find the patience I used to have when studying new pieces. And when you’re impatient, you learn nothing.
*sigh* How did I lose interest in something I loved so much before?
“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.”
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basic truths
Oliver Wendell Holmes (via techiefoodie)
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I am no longer engaged.
Why: He wasnt ready.
Its all good though, we are still friends.
I am committed to him being a happy human, growing into a great man, that will one day rock someones world..and already does rock a lot of peoples worlds.
As for me, I am ready to get the show on the…
Surreal
Niña Agagon
Read a touching blog about a break-up. Reminds me of my own heartbreaks. Just goes to show no matter how we try to live separate lives, in the end, all of us go through the same hardships, same moments, same emotions.
Why did I have to read it on this cold, gray, rainy day… Here’s an old song of mine I wrote during one of “those moments.”
