Big dates - moral support
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acmespaceshipNow that I've buttered you up with a chocolate recipe, I can ask you to think supportive thoughts as our son auditions for college (yes, we are all that old) as a prospective jazz piano performance major.
Saturday Feb. 7 - NIU Jazz Studies (Chicago)
Sunday Feb. 8 - Berklee College of Music (Chicago auditions)
Saturday Feb. 14 - U of I Jazz Studies (Urbana)
I just got a call from Willie Pickens himself to set up the NIU audition. The last time I got a call this cool it was from former Cubs pitcher Richard Nye who is our ferret's veterinarian.
For more than a year we've been living and breathing the up-tempo standard, ballad, blues improv, and "I've Got Rhythm" changes plus major, minor, pentatonic and blues scales. Plus a Bach invention, a classical (Mozart) and romantic (Chopin) sonata movement and a 20th century work (Joplin: Solace) because at NIU and UIUC the jazz pianists also have to pass a classical audition.
This is where the rubber meets the pudding and the chickens come home to prove the road. Wish him luck auditioning, and wish me luck to not have a stroke.
I am calm I am calm I am calm ack I am calm
Saturday Feb. 7 - NIU Jazz Studies (Chicago)
Sunday Feb. 8 - Berklee College of Music (Chicago auditions)
Saturday Feb. 14 - U of I Jazz Studies (Urbana)
I just got a call from Willie Pickens himself to set up the NIU audition. The last time I got a call this cool it was from former Cubs pitcher Richard Nye who is our ferret's veterinarian.
For more than a year we've been living and breathing the up-tempo standard, ballad, blues improv, and "I've Got Rhythm" changes plus major, minor, pentatonic and blues scales. Plus a Bach invention, a classical (Mozart) and romantic (Chopin) sonata movement and a 20th century work (Joplin: Solace) because at NIU and UIUC the jazz pianists also have to pass a classical audition.
This is where the rubber meets the pudding and the chickens come home to prove the road. Wish him luck auditioning, and wish me luck to not have a stroke.
I am calm I am calm I am calm ack I am calm
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Date: 2009-01-31 04:49 am (UTC)Scarfman's right, we've got grandkids for Pete's sake... and why Pete matters in this is a mystery to me...
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Date: 2009-02-01 08:32 pm (UTC)I think I am better suited as a grandma than a mother. I like to entertain kids but I'd rather skip the 24x7 responsibility. When my son was born, my mom came out to stay for a week. One time when the baby was crying loudly and inexplicably and I looked to mom for help, she said:
"Look, I only did this once and it was 30 years ago."
And she handed the baby back to me. I look forward to doing the same someday... but not too soon. How long until a jazz pianist is ready for the responsibilities of raising a family? (cough cough)