Daniel Brings Down the House

For your listening pleasure, we present Daniel's performance of two pieces learned for this year's Jazz Festival.

Boogie Woogie Romp by Eugenie Rocherolle:

Pine Top's Boogie by Clarence "Pine Top" Smith:

(fun fact: written in 1928, Pine Top's Boogie was the first official boogie-woogie song.)

Piano Recital!

I have been added as a blogger! Mwahaha...er, I mean, now I can contribute additional posts and pictures and stories and things! In other words, add the pictures I have on my phone that we don't have on the computer ...

Anyhoo, without further ado, the spring piano recital!

Jojo's "Steampunk":

My Grande Valse Brillante by Chopin:

Now we're done! I was pretty done with Chopin by the end. As fun of a piece as it is, playing it every day six times or more at different tempos for over an hour gets a little old. I've been working on it for 5 months now, but didn't really focus on it until March. Then my teacher and I pushed the tempo and finished the memory over a very short time period, so considering where it was a couple of weeks ago, it's a miracle I could play it for guild and the recital! Now it's on to jazz and Franz Liszt for the next 7 or so months.