Chloe's Piano Recital Pieces

I'll write more about the recital later, but these were Chloe's two numbers -- for you, Mom!



And here is a picture of Chloe with her wonderful piano teacher, Shirlene Shaw.  She is amazing and we are SO blessed to have her so close to us.

She had a great recital night.  It was long, as usual (2 hrs. and 20 minutes!), but it's such a great experience.  Shirlene held it in St. John's Episcopal church in Logan and the acoustics were so awesome!

Chloe played 2 pieces:  Fur Ludwig and Edelweiss.  Fur Ludwig is a modified version of Fur Elise by Beethoven.  She was SO nervous waiting for her turn.  Edelweiss has been a particularly difficult song for her to learn - she's been working on it for over 2 months.  Stanton played the duet part with her and they hadn't practiced together enough and I think she felt it.  They made some mistakes, but she finished really strong and did a perfect job on Fur Ludwig.  She told me afterward that she really wanted to just stop Edelweiss and start from the beginning without mistakes.  It was a great lesson for her to learn to just keep playing and finish strong, though.  I was so proud of her.  She's becoming a great pianist.
The video above is from the next morning.  She asked me to record her playing her songs well -- I think to prove to herself that she really knew them.
Proud of you, Chloe.  You're working hard and learning so much.