Finally

Finally got the show on Friday sorted out. Playing with Forrest in Black Forrest Ham and Rotary club will open up and my brother, William Monroe, will finish out the night. Should be fun. Three very different groups. I love variety. Iowa City Yacht Club at 9:00PM. $5 cover.

Anyway had my lesson for the week. Went overall pretty well. Had a realization about Beethoven "Tempest" Sonata. The first movement is so epic I had been trying to interpret the other movements in a similar fashion. Well I was listening to Murray Perahia play the 2nd and 3rd movement and I realized that they aren't as epic. Now that might sound like a small realization but believe me it is not. For someone like me who will make every piece of crap music into the most grand gut wrenching glut of emotion to finally understand that part of my recital is small and less intense is good. The third movement especially is like a sad romantic drama you would take a girl to see such as the "Notebook", I was playing it like "The Passion of the Christ".

Baby steps towards my recital. Baby... steps...

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