Donna Mitchell: Music and Musings
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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...
Magnolia
Dear friends of piano music, this picture is not perfect. On the one hand I am a lousy photographer, on the other hand the buds of this Heidelberg magnolia tree are mostly still closed. A very dear old friend told me once that her husband had planned the magnolia tree in front of the rectory as the perfect setting for their wedding. They watched it worryingly for days, but they were really lucky and the tree was in full bloom on the day of their wedding. It's like that, every Sunday, to have a new piano piece ready for YouTube. My recordings are live and it usually takes some patience and nerves - Chopin in particular is often a little shy, it is not so easy to get him in front of the lens for the perfect snapshot. And it is not uncommon for things to go really well until a small but devilish mistake creeps in shortly before the end, if only that I am getting nervous because I drank too much coffee in the early morning for Chopin ... I wish you all a lot of patience - a flower ...
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