Piano Recital
The music should have been the focus of her piano recital, but she knew one member of the audience would be in for a big surprise when…
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The music should have been the focus of her piano recital, but she knew one member of the audience would be in for a big surprise when she played her closing act.
It all started at the first piano competition she place in. That was where she first met him. If two different people were given the same piece of sheet music, they would both end up playing the music differently from each other. Everyone has a distinct style of playing, where notes and sounds turn into music and emotions. At that competition where everyone else played almost like robots trying, and failing, to imitate the classic composers of days gone by, he was different. He played like a wild animal marking his territory dominating the noise coming out of his piano. Instead of trying to play the music like someone he’s not, he show the audiences, the judges, her, his command of the piece and that he played the music, not the music play with him.
He did not place in the competition. Broke too many rules apparently with his free flowing style, in a rigid formal environment. His impact however was evident across the crowd and competitors. He should have won, and in a way he did.
One of the many goals of the performing arts is to inspire, and at least one person was inspired that day.
Her perspective of music just open up that day, instead of looking just within the bounds of the sheet music, notes, and metronome, everything was possible now. There was no longer “being on beat,” just liberal use of the offbeat, and in a way, she grew from hearing him play the classics like a mad man.
Today, years later, the roles are reverse. She is the one playing a recital now, and he is the one in the audience. As her closing act was about to start she smiled and whispered to herself, “Let me show you my animalistic playing style you inspired in me all those years ago with a little piano jazz…”
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