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I thought I would start an optimistic thread to share our most recent happy.moments at the piano :p

Today, I was the first to arrive at my music college in London, meaning I got first pick on over 2 dozens of Steinways Model Bs and several angry looks from older pianists who arrived a couple of minutes later than me



Edit: NVM I just realised there are similar versions in the ABF.

The early birds gets the worm, uh bee, I mean B!


I had great lunch with some friends.

Tuned a piano for a violin and piano recital. Made progress on upgrading the stage lighting there. Nice performance of Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Pärt, and Lutoslawski. Piano sounded great.

I was happy yesterday when I got my Cooper edition of Beethoven's Sonatas. Today has not been a very good day - I have a bad cold and I wanted to watch the solar eclipse (albeit partial) at the beach and it was terribly cloudy and it even rained where I am. (I had already prepared my camera for the eclipse, so it was disappointing.) But I enjoyed watching it online. Oh, I have just found something that made me happy.

I was happy that even though I was in no condition to practice, I successfully got my wisdom teeth taken out, and was not loopy from the anesthesia at all. That made me REALLY happy.

Both yesterday AND today - successfully playing through my first Chopin Etude from memory with only a couple mistakes! Such a feeling of accomplishment. Also blowing away my teacher with the progress made on the etude - let's just say, last time he heard it a week ago it wasn't so good, now it is only a week or two away from being performance ready...

I saw a wonderful concert at the Casa Da Musica (Oporto, Portugal), featuring the "Remix Ensemble" and music of Pierre Boulez and Bruno Montavani. Piano was used throughout, along with celeste, and a large cimbalom (a type of Dulcimer.)

Now I'm on a flight back to the USA.

What do you mean by you got "first pick"? For a recital or something?

I think he means he was the first to choose the piano he preferred (probably for practice?? - it's a college).

yes I arrived first in college I got the first choice on what piano I had for practise.

I really shouldn't go on the forums when I've just woken up..

Rehearsal went well. Dressing up for the rehearsal went well. Audience liked what they heard in the rehearsal! All is well...

I fixed my TV set myself. Saved me $200.

Wanting to test my own powers, I like to play something I have never played before in front of 200 people. Today it was the BeeGee's How Deep Is Your Love. All went well. So did the Black Key Etude...

Mwah!

First 6 pages of Chopin Ballade memorized!

Nothing yet, but even if there is a thread like this on ABF, it's great to have one here too. I think this forum, or any forum for that matter, needs positive threads. OK, so I'm happy this thread is here!

One other thing: I got a photo of the eclipse taken by my nephew.

It's too early yet; I'll let you know later!

I received my monthly box of gourmet chocolates from the Chocolate Tasting Club this morning, and have been chomping my way through it.

Feeling very satisfied and happy, if a trifle sickly....

Our living room is arranged in a way that puts a comfy chair near, but behind, the piano bench. The comfy chair is often occupied by my book-worm daughter, who has become very familiar with my grumblings and admonitions to myself when I practice. Today, I was quite taken with an arrangement of a tune I've been preparing for a Christmas gig, and exclaimed, "My goodness, is that ever going to be beautiful!!!" "Yeah," she said, "If you can learn to play it right."



It was so funny... I am still chuckling bout it.

--Andy

I came home form teaching today, not too happy, because I'd had to deal with too many student problems... So, the teaching part could easily improve tomorrow...

But thanks to this great thread, I realised that there's a lot to be happy:
I - finally - completed making the fingerings for the third movement of the violin/piano sonata in A major KV 526. In my partition, it's 18 pages long and I've been at it for about two weeks This really made my day...