Saturday, June 6, 2009

First Recital

CoCo started taking piano lessons at the beginning of the school year. He really enjoys it, and can't walk past the piano without playing it. In fact, that is his rather nontraditional style of practicing. He walks past the piano, plays his current song once, an old song once, and then walks away. He does this several times a day. I figure it all adds up, and I don't pester him about practicing. Well, he was very excited about participating in the recital and practiced his song for over a month. He was very prepared.
This is CoCo before his recital - all handsome and concealing his nervousness pretty well. Moments later, the floodgates opened; and we knew that there would be no recital for CoCo this year. We watched the other kids perform then headed home with grandma and grandpa for a private family recital.

Here he is playing "Indian Dance." We even got a couple of wonderful bows when he finished!

3 comments:

Ana said...

aww...poor dear. Had he had a chance to practice at the recital venue earlier? It might have helped his nerves.

Like Fudge said...

Nope. The location was changed the night before due to double scheduling on the part of the community center. That definitely threw him off. Oh, well. He seems pretty excited about his cyber recital.

Allison said...

Poor boy! I just realized that I might have forgotten to tell you about my dance recital. It is this Saturday at 2:30 at Hochstein. I don't know if you can make it on such short notice, but I'd love to see you guys!