I'm baaaaack!

....from a blogging hiatus. In between all the music for 5 different Christmas concerts, I almost forgot about Christmas itself and had to do all my shopping online. I bought my mom (a fellow piano teacher) a book called "Music for the Busy Teen" and plan to try it out with some of my own busy teen piano students.

I found these pictures from our show "Bear Stays up for Christmas" on the Waimea. Country.School facebook page. The students were so adorable all dressed up like woodland creatures!

Wishing all of my readers a very Happy Holiday!

Bear Stays Up For Christmas

All the Woodland creatures at the final bow.
Beaver and Bird
Tonight's performance of "Bear Stays Up for Christmas" was perfect! I was nervous about playing on an electric 36 key keyboard without a pedal awkwardly balancing on a rickety bench squeezed in between two church pews at an angle.....but my practicing paid off! During school rehearsals we would stop, restart, interrupt, etc, so the uninterrupted performance tonight seemed to fly by in a jiffy. In reality, it was the perfect length and really showcased everyone.

Another performance down....one more to go!

Concert Week!

Sui.Lan.Gomez's homeschool proudly presents "The Coconutcracker" this Friday.
Waimea.County.School proudly presents "Bear Stays Up for Christmas" tomorrow evening!

Comptine d'un autre ete from Amelie

I remember waiting years for the sheet music from the motion picture film "Amelie" to come out in print. I waited so long in fact, that I forgot about it until last year. My students have LOVED playing the piano music from this soundtrack. Click HERE for the "Comptine d'un Autre Ete". Or click HERE to listen to the song!