lockdown

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 actually has that anymore - my once so beautiful and fulfilling profession of piano teacher is, unfortunately, one can say, broken. Which child, when they finally come home from care in the late afternoon, still regularly sits down at the piano to practice with concentration and joy? Even my son often doesn't get his homework done if he works on it with the other children at school in the afternoon. What an effort to then get him to complete the assignments and improve them at home. After that there really has to be time to play and run around. Nevertheless, I would like him to learn an instrument after Corona and sing in a choir, because there is nothing better for the personal development of these little rascals. I am very curious to see whether we will be able to inspire him despite the lack of time. With this in mind, I can understand my children's joy at the lockdown - time in abundance, what a luxury. Of course my son is a school child this time, he will have to do a few tasks, but otherwise the program is: eat, sleep, devastate the apartment, eat, sleep, devastate the apartment ... and the children are happy.

 

Best regards

Kerstin

 

Frédéric CHOPIN: Op. 70, No. 2 (Valse)

https://youtu.be/3MUE4qBjzFc