I played Give Unto Me today at the Telemiracle fundraiser thingie. Helgi Helgason was comparing the pianists to different people and he said that he tried to think of a famous female pianist but couldn't, so he said that Glenn Gould better move over. One old dude sang a song and one line that repeatedly came up was "I don't look good naked anymore." It was hilarious! And Helgi was like "Shelley Thoen was looking over what I was going to say, and saw "star studs" and she was like "wow, I'm going to be there for sure!" When she found out it was actually supposed to say star STUDDED she was quite crestfallen."
Mr. Farrell was there cuz all three of his kids played piano. I should ask him on Monday why he didn't sing Rock Me Amadeus like he did in history class. There was an awesome jazz combo. This like, eighty year old dude was playing jazz piano. It was stellar. The Wannabes (Milt's band) played, and what else...an old lady recited an essay or something.
Anyway, I just thought of a story I heard at piano camp. A long time ago, all the big composers used to get together and have contests about how could make the best composition on the spot and whatever. Anyway, I think it was Liszt and some other dude were having a contest and the first guy played this amazing song, using the whole keyboard and it was really fast, and all made up on the spot. Liszt said "well, I can't top that" and played the whole song the other guy just made up.
Tomorrow I'm playing a hymn on the organ in church, and I'm doing a prelude. It should be fun. The organ is so hard...I practiced my song (which has four verses) and I got up and almost fell down because my legs felt like jelly. Lol.
I was reading a book and it was set in New York City and there was a girl from Saskatchewan in it and the narrator was like "I wondered if she celebrated Thanksgiving," and another time was like "she pronounced about the Canadian way: aboot". I have never heard ANYONE who pronounced about that way. I read a magazine article about "Canadianisms" and they said the same thing. WE DON'T PRONOUNCE IT ABOOT DAMMIT! I don't understand.
Anyhoo, Jonas is coming to kick me off soon, so I should jet. Ciao homies!
Saturday, February 25, 2006
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hey, robin, im like chatting to you, haha
Yeah I guess so. that's why we can't go on blogs in the lib.
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