Rejoice with me!!! I've just finished Schumann's "Papillons"

[crim son]

and it sounds good :) I've been working on it for months! and at times it's been hard to concentrate. Done at long last.

I'm so sick of it- I hope never to have to play it again! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[redqueen]

1. nice work!

but aww... why not play it again?

[crim son]

2. It's been my companion song during a rough time.

The rough time is over, and so is my time with the piece. Maybe in a few years I'll pick it up again but right now I'm ready for something NEW!

[redqueen]

3. ah i see

have anything picked out yet?

[crim son]

4. Something Beethoven, but no, I haven't.

I'm always doing shorter pieces as well, but I like to have a long work always in progress. :)

[redqueen]

7. Oooh Beethoven is my favorite.

Moonlight Sonata most especially.

[crim son]

8. I love that piece too. In fact, my mother was a very fine pianist

but until I was nine, she didn't have a piano in the house. One evening it arrived, shipped by her father to our little house. As I lay in bed, I heard her play for the first time, and it was the Moonlight Sonata. I crept down the stairs and sat on the bottom one so I could hear her better. The first movement was lovely but it took me some years before I liked the rest as well. But the one movement was all it took to make me want to learn how to play, too. :7

[redqueen]

9. It was my aunt who introduced me to the piece...

I was already playing by then, but I started really appreciating what I was learning after hearing her play it. The school taught simple pieces and my dad taught me scales and ragtime... those were nowhere near as engaging.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

5. Eeew. My fingers hurt just thinking about Schumann.

Clearly, I am not a classically educated lady. :P

[crim son]

6. But classy you are.

:hug: