Donna Mitchell: Music and Musings
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Dear friends of piano music, it's really a déjà vu: we had a lockdown at Easter, and we have one again at Christmas. Locked in your own four walls, going to the supermarket is the only appointment of the day. I'm curious to see whether the playgrounds will also be closed again - that was particularly tough last time when, like us, you don't have a garden. It's supposed to be particularly bad for the children, such a lockdown, but my children aren't particularly angry if they don't have to leave the house in the morning. For them, lockdown means: having time, an infinite amount of time. Time to read aloud, to sing, time for "corridor sports" (i.e. ball games and racing with mom ...). When I was a child, children used to come home at twelve or one o'clock at the latest, not for all-day care. There was an endless amount of time for hobbies and I had plenty of them, sports and music, and there was plenty of time to practice the piano. Nowadays nobody...
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