Happy Tenth Anniversary
My college roommate and her husband are celebrating ten years today. Their first dance at their reception was to Billy Joel’s “This Night,” and I played the Beethoven Joel ripped it off from, Sonata Pathetique, second movement, as a prelude to the ceremony. Happy anniversary!
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I am so impressed that you can play the “Pathetique.” I knew you were musically gifted, but that’s beyond gifted. (That’s also disciplined.) Do you still play?
Comment by Anne — December 27, 2007 @ 7:51 am
Oh dear, I should clarify. I can play the first part of the second movement of the Pathetique–the very slow part–quite well. The rest of the second movement I can play reasonably well. The rest of the Pathetique I’ve never so much as touched. :) I’m not much of a piano player and certainly not at all a disciplined one. I play a lot by ear and have some sight-reading/fakery skills I gained when I was choir-directing and accompanying my choirs myself.
Comment by Anwyn — December 27, 2007 @ 7:53 am
Fakery skills can be very useful. Wish I had a few myself when it comes to music. Or anything else!
Comment by Anne — December 28, 2007 @ 3:44 pm