Advice for musicians
Don’t ever volunteer to play a solo piece at a recital evening in three days time when you have a thousand and one other things to do and haven’t actually played the piece in question for a year or so. “I’m sure I’ll pick it up quickly” is a false hope, implanted in your brain by a desire to help out the girl organising the recital who had a pianist cancel at the last minute.
On a similar note, don’t ever volunteer to play a solo piece at a recital evening when you haven’t even thought of something to play. “I’m sure there’s something I can do” is, again, probably a false hope and in fact all the things you can play well (Happy Birthday, I Can See Clearly Now, that song off the Beetle advert) aren’t suitable, especially as they require you to sing, and the rest of the recital evening includes people who are actually singers.
One final thing: don’t ever volunteer to play at a fundraising recital evening when you can’t actually afford to buy a ticket.
Matthew @ 15:07, September 10, 2006 to Advice | Comments (0)
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