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Re: New Years Resolutions!

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-01-03 12:07

>>It seems to me the pro pianist is simply asking you to play together with them to have a nice musical time. Don't worry, enjoy!
>>

Yes, quite right. She's a friend and certainly not trying to show me up or anything negative like that. She made the suggestion a few days ago when I turned pages for her in a Mendelssohn trio she was rehearsing with my husband (violin) and another friend who plays cello. I often stay home and practice my own instruments when Kevin goes out for chamber music (he plays with three different groups), but I tagged along that time because the pianist needs a page-turner in that trio no matter what the edition -- there's no user-friendly place to put the page turns because the pianist is so busy throughout. Anyhow, I've turned pages for her before, but the only thing she really knows about my clarinet playing is that I can read music. Apparently she thinks I'm a good page turner (despite the fact that, in the Mendelssohn, I flipped two pages on her at once in the middle of an allegro...).

The problem is that, while she doesn't know my clarinet playing, I do know her piano playing. If I practice with her, she's going to find out the hard way that she plays piano way better than I play clarinet. I have stage fright from hell even when the only "audience" is someone I can hear walking past on the sidewalk when the windows are open. I'll probably mess up and I don't want to create an awkward situation with her.

Or I could send Leila. She's my imaginary evil twin. But she'd probably show up with a Tuner Toy instead of a clarinet.
>;-)

Lelia
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Post Edited (2011-01-03 12:09)

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