Much as I love certain types of contemporary music, there are days when only the pure notes of the classics will do.
I started taking piano lessons at the age of seven and stopped, very abruptly, at twenty-one. Since that day, the times that I have sat at my piano have been few and far between. Music has always been an important part of my life. But, looking back, I now realise that I am one of those people who are moved my music from without. But there is no music inside of me. I have never felt that burning urge to create music. Maybe my heart was too full of words to have space for musical notes. I would rather spend any free time that I had with my nose in a book or scribbling little stories on dog-eared notebooks.
But that does not mean that I can live without music. So, as the weekend here draws to a close, I wanted to share one of the pieces that I most enjoyed playing by one of the greatest musical geniuses that the world has ever known. Here is Mitsuru Nagai playing Für Elise.
'Maybe my heart was too full of words to have space for musical notes. I would rather spend any free time that I had with my nose in a book or scribbling little stories on dog-eared notebooks.'
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loree - i played piano from age 6 and abruptly stopped at 18, so you kept at it - good for you! fur elise was one of my favorite recital pieces - so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteOne of my piano students is playing this right now. I do love this piece! Don't stop playing :)
ReplyDeleteI love music but have no talent for it. I can't even sing on key. I took piano lessons for many years but don't remember much of it. Trying to learn music was like trying to rearrange how my mind thinks. Yet I still love music and my kids and I are always singing (off key) and making music.
ReplyDeleteI just found your blog and must comment at once. This post sounds so familiar although I didn't take piano lessons that long. I was told I had a great voice when I was a child but teenage brought shyness that never left. There were always others more willing to enter the stage. Later I was too busy to find a choir to join. I do have a piano but I never touch it. So here I am hoping my 20 something daughter - who certainly has a great voice - will overcome her shyness and won't follow in her mother's footsteps!
ReplyDeleteI love music too but modern one, not so much the classical music. I played flute for a while at school, but I hated the piano !
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