Comments on: Remembering What You’ve Forgotten You’ve Forgotten http://murmurz.com/mumurz/remembering-what-youve-forgotten-youve-forgotten/ A Writer's Murmurs Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:50:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ron Rink http://murmurz.com/mumurz/remembering-what-youve-forgotten-youve-forgotten/#comment-52 Ron Rink Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:00:03 +0000 http://murmurz.com/?p=82#comment-52 As one who was a small part of the discussion you mention, I have to say I was amazed by how many of us immediately focused on our weaknesses rather than our strengths, myself included. What your post in this blog did was make me remember that I had forgotten what is was like to be able to play serious, more difficult music. In my younger days I was a concert pianist. Now that I have arthritis in my hands, I have only been able to play easy, slow pieces on an electronic keyboard. My absolute favorite composer of all time is Frederick Chopin. So ..... ..... After reading this today, I went to my music cabinet and pulled out a book of Chopin Nocturnes that I hadn't touched for years. I opened to the first one in the book, Opus 9, No 1 and gave it a try. Some of the left-hand reaches were tough -- and those fast runs in the right-hand went a lot slower than they should, but it was fun to see what was still possible. Although it was disappointing in some ways, the fun of playing parts of this piece again was well worth it. Thanks for the boot in the butt to get me to try again. :-) Peace .... As one who was a small part of the discussion you mention, I have to say I was amazed by how many of us immediately focused on our weaknesses rather than our strengths, myself included.

What your post in this blog did was make me remember that I had forgotten what is was like to be able to play serious, more difficult music. In my younger days I was a concert pianist. Now that I have arthritis in my hands, I have only been able to play easy, slow pieces on an electronic keyboard. My absolute favorite composer of all time is Frederick Chopin.

So …..

….. After reading this today, I went to my music cabinet and pulled out a book of Chopin Nocturnes that I hadn’t touched for years. I opened to the first one in the book, Opus 9, No 1 and gave it a try. Some of the left-hand reaches were tough — and those fast runs in the right-hand went a lot slower than they should, but it was fun to see what was still possible.

Although it was disappointing in some ways, the fun of playing parts of this piece again was well worth it.

Thanks for the boot in the butt to get me to try again. :-)

Peace ….

]]>