Piano recital 12/16

Ellie has a piano recital yesterday. She played two songs: Hungarian Folk Song by Bartok and Nimbus 2000 by J. Williams arranged for piano. She has been working on Nimbus 2000 for almost 6 months and it payed off. The piece is hard yet impressive. Every person in the room was impressed by her playing it and we received it overheard many compliments. 

However, I was more impressed with her maturity as a player with Hungarian Folk Song. During her performance she made a mistake in the left hand and the song was starting to come off the rails. But, she kept playing the right hand and caught the left hand back up. Nobody except me and her teacher knew she made a mistake. And she nailed the last chord. 

Of course it wouldn’t be a normal weekend without racing between activities. We left the recital and she headed to a soccer tournament. Hence there was a quick change in the car.