Feeling a little better each day, but getting very little done except a few sketches for
Paper, Paint, Pencils and Pens, where this fortnight's theme is 'Music and Musicians'. As I am not getting out to see any musicians, I am concentrating on musical memories, which has been fun and the cause of a good deal of discussion and laughter in the family.
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'Sparky and his Magic Piano'
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The Sparky records on the radio in about 1947 or 48 were my introduction to the wonderful music of Chopin, and to other classical music. I had never heard anything like it, and fell in love with it. Does anyone else remember Sparky and the piano that played the music for him?
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One day my younger daughter blew into her recorder. A large earwig shot out of the other end, and she screeched in horror. She just reminded me that I said sympathetically "Well, that shows you haven't been practising". And that was the last note she ever played on a recorder.
Well, the sketch with its story tells you everything here.
The three of them, each with their own piano-accordion, took lessons together for a couple of years until their teacher married and moved away. And they all moved on to different instruments.
Musical memories of seeing a special production of 'Madame Butterfly'.
Linking to Paint Party Friday, Paper Saturdays
