fading in

I played the piano
last evening

after a long break.

I suddenly remembered

Peter's Beatles

music books upstairs.

I have rarely played anything but classical or church music, from my mom's books.

We have Lesley's piano, since she has no room for it in her NYC apartment. Maybe because she is coming home for a long Memorial Day weekend I wanted to warm it up.

So before the "American Idol" finale last night I played "Across the Universe." My playing was pretty awful. I'll keep practicing; I'd like to memorize it.

I am happy both our kids are musical, taking after my mom, who was a concert pianist, well she was trained to be, but her "concerts" ended up being the accompaniment for singing at church. (That's her little picture on the piano, below.) She taught me to read music and tried to teach me to play piano, but I was lazy. And there's just something about a mom trying to teach her daughter, a certain resistance exists.

I want to congratulate another musical young woman, Abigail Wirbel, who is graduating from high school. She is Loring's beautiful daughter, and she plays guitar and sings. Loring and I went to high school together until I graduated 34 years ago. (He graduated the following year.) In fact we only lived a couple of blocks from each other. I'm so glad we reconnected in blogworld.

Here's to musical children and parents! Here's to music!