> > << How do you deal with the problem of your > > accompanist blowing it right in the middle of a piece? >> >
In the middle of the first piece of a recital once, the pianist's music suddenly fell down on top of her. It happened to be right at the end of a verse where I was holding a high note for 4 bars. I didn't actually know what was going on--only that the piano stopped. So I just kept holding that note. Eventually the piano came back in with the intro to the next verse.....
I'll admit I've been guilty on occasion of coming in at the wrong place (something about nerves--a bar rest suddenly takes an eternity), but when I come in, I'm in and that's how it should be. The pianist adjusts. (And I thank the pianist profusely but quietly after.)
So you've just got to do your thing, no matter what! [Have I ever mentioned the time the cottage deck--with myself and all guests on it--collapsed in one spot during my solo at a wedding? All night long everyone told me how impressed they were that I kept singing (it didn't collapse where I was)--but I was disappointed that no one seemed to notice *what* I had been singing!!]
Alleson Aering kandahar@i...
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