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Darby has been feverishly practicing for a piano recital at school this evening. Unfortunately she started feeling bad yesterday and woke up with a fever this morning. She missed school today, in fact, but the recital is a grade in her major and we were told there were few make-up opportunities left in the semester. So, she showed, and she played.



I was supposed to leave work a bit early in order to swing by home and pick-up the camcorder. But I couldn't leave as early as needed and so had to head straight for school. And as my point-and-shoot camera was flashing low-battery, in addition to being low on memory card space (again, didn't have time to go home), that left my phone as the remaining video capture source. That might have worked out great, but I forgot to change the default format from MMS quality so the frame-rate is low AND the predefined length is one minute. Really frustrates me that I didn't think to change that setting. So anyway, here we have the first minute of Darby's ninety-second song.

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Darby had a piano recital at an area nursing home this afternoon. Due to short notice from the piano teacher, many of her students couldn't make it, so it was a shorter than usual performance (about 35 minutes). But that was good because we had much else to do today.

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Darby performing Sonatina in C Major by Latour for her 7th grade school piano recital. Some mistakes, but she had a bad morning. Woke up late, didn't have time to practice before the show, etc. Pretty good all things considered.

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Blurry and way too distant camera phone shot of daughter #1 at her school piano recital this morning. Similarly distant and blurry video forthcoming.

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Darby had a piano recital today. She was nervous and didn't play as well as I've heard her play her piece at home (and I've heard it A LOT), but she played decently under the circumstances (probably the biggest audience she's ever played for).

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Darby had a piano audition today for the school we hope she will attend next year. Below is a video of her rehearsing last night. She has been quite stressed about this audition for some time, and is quite glad to be done. We have one more hurdle to overcome and then it's a matter of waiting to find out if she gets in.



Prior to her audition, the teacher asked her a question: "Why do you want to go to this school?"

Her answer: "Because I know it's a good school and I want to go to a good college"


I was personally shocked that she would come up with such a perfect answer. And the teacher concurred that it was the right answer at the right time.

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