On the very last day of June, Sarah had her violin concert for the year. She has made a lot of progress and worked really hard on the song she played all by herself. She practiced for weeks, and for much longer than the required 20 minutes a day. Often she would come into the kitchen while I was cooking dinner and give me a little concert. 🙂 This helped her to build confidence, since she usually likes to practice in private, and also let her practice memorizing the piece, since there wasn’t room for the music stand in the kitchen.
Sadly, I was not able to attend the concert in person. My good, long time friend Julie was moving back to the States and the ladies were heading just across the border to Colmar, France for one last girls weekend. But Papa recorded the whole thing for me, and everyone else attended to cheer her on. From the video, it sounds like she did a fantastic job!
She doesn’t even look nervous, does she? She had two piece to play. One by herself, as I mentioned, and one with a whole group. This is the first one.
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The second song was played by a whole group of kids playing the exact same thing. I think they only had one time to practice it all together, but it sounded beautiful!
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Congratulations, Sarah. We are super proud of you!