Violin Recital

This week, we hosted a recital for Sean and Cathleen at our house. Normally, the violin teacher puts on a recital with all her students but our teacher doesn't have (and doesn't want!) any students besides our two sweet darlins. So she said we needed to have them perform publicly. After a couple hiccups, we had two recitals, one with a real audience where the live streaming on YouTube didn't work and one the next day (today) just for the live streaming. The pianist for the Airmen of Note, Steve Erickson, came by today and sightread all the music. I just can't understand how someone can do that with Sean's Vivaldi piece!

Anyway, it all went well. Pea played her first two pieces easy peasy. Steve started the third piece really fast and she struggled through that and a few parts of the fourth and final piece. But she played with a smile and seemed to enjoy it. Neither of them seemed nervous. Sean did great, especially considering just two days before he had a 103° fever. His piece is long but memorizing is so easy for Suzuki kids, they are used to it and it happens naturally. He always surprises me...seems like I'm forever thinking he's not really prepared but then he pulls it off. When that kid focuses, watch out! He played a quick version of Orange Blossom Special to end the recital.

Click on this link to YouTube to see the recital. It's less than 14 minutes long.

Things we're going to do better for next time: stream using a microphone. Both violins sounded really tinny and not like they do in real life.

Pictures from the first recital:

I played piano with Pea so I couldn't take a picture of her playing.