This past week Sylvia happened to show me some Victor Borge clips on YouTube. For those of you not familiar with him I will explain briefly. Victor lived in Denmark before and leading up to WWII. He left there after starting a very successful musical career and came to the US. Here he became quite popular and had a loving fan base until his death in 2000 at age 91. I call him a comedic pianist but that really isn't an accurate description. He was an accomplished concert pianist but was also a great entertainer. Using his piano skills and wit he melded the two into a kind of mock concert where he never actually does play full, serious pieces until the very end.
Getting back to why I told you all of that... Sylvia ordered a couple of his DVD's and last night we watched one. We laughed and laughed and really had a great time. One of the pieces he pretends to play is Hungarian Rhapsody #2 by Lizst. It really is beautiful and powerful. So this led me to watch some piano performances on YouTube. Wow. There are so many talented people in the world who readily share their gift with us. One of them is Marc Andre Hamelin. This man is unbelievable. There are so many but I will only share this one for now.
So after my watching experience I could not help but go over to Sylvia's electric keyboard and start messing around. I don't play the piano so you can imagine I didn't really do much there, but it was fun. I made up a little song...well, more of the first line of a song, but you get the idea.
Well, to finish this mess off I want to tell you the reason for this rambling jumble of boringness. The odd string of events that I just described have once again inspired me to play my guitar. I haven't been playing and really I love to do it but I really need instruction. And time. Maybe I should spend less time on the internet...
