Merry Christmas!

Accompanying

Yesterday I had the very exciting opportunity to accompany a middle school choir on the piano. Mrs. Greene is the pianist, and the choir performed a song that had two piano parts called Rhythm of Life. Mrs. Greene called Mom last Wednesday to ask me if I could do it. I had to call the director of The Miracle Worker about it because we had rehearsal on the same night. Anyway, I was (obviously) given the green light. I first played the piece on Thursday, so I kind of stressed out about learning it. I practiced with Mrs. Greene again on Sunday, went to rehearse with the choir on Monday, and played it a few more times yesterday before we left. I really, really enjoyed accompanying. I enjoy being in the partial spotlight when I'm playing piano rather than playing by myself when all the attention is on me. Also, when you're accompanying if you mess up you just keep going instead of trying to fix the mistake and getting all nervous and embarrassed. I definitely missed some notes last night, but it didn't bug me as much as it usually does. Maybe that's because I knew that perfection was practically impossible in less than a week!