Warning: Memories are coming to the Q-inspired corner this Sunday afternoon. They were triggered this morning at my gig when a lady came and asked me did I just played a piece by Jamie Duffy. After my confirmation, she said she knew him in person!
...That you know him in person???
I was more than surprised!!
I know that sometimes there are musicians among the guests or people who are friends with musicians, but still, talking to someone who has direct connections to a piece I have just played is a nice feeling. I sent him my regards 馃槉
Then I remembered the following scene...
Year: 2017.
Place: A Wellness Clinic where I used to play for one year on a transparent piano. Not just this beautiful Yamaha piano from the photo made those evenings enjoyable but also the collaboration with my violinist colleague with whom we played together. She became a good friend of mine, although we started just as colleagues. The time we spent together practising and then performing, chitchatting during our breaks between playing created some stronger bonds. {We had some photos doing silly things at one of the breaks 馃槅 but those photos were lost when her phone broke...}
Of course, we also worked diligently - played our instruments with joy. We were there to bring a nice musical background to the healthy dinners and gorgeous views of the bay from the transparent walls, not just to have fun 馃槄. The guests used to approach us and thank us for the music, but that was nothing new. They usually do that.
A different dialogue happened when a musician came and introduced himself. He was a singer-songwriter from Madrid who was spending some weeks in this place and happened to hear us playing. Moreover, he was a nice gentleman with manners. We spent some considerable time talking to him so we learned about his new album, the musicians he collaborated with and the songs he wrote.
A couple of months passed and we still played at the same place and guess what happened!? Gast贸n, the musician we talked to visited the complex again and this time he brought us the new album he released. I was a proud owner of this album and listened to it at home, especially to the song Hoy que la luna llena.
The song had a nice solo part for the violin at the beginning and that's why Gast贸n suggested we could play it if we liked it.
Yes, why not? :)
After a few days of listening and noting down the chords and the melody, we had the song under our fingers! I don't remember whether it was a full moon or not the evening we performed the song, but our piano & violin version made the composer feel grateful. We were grateful too to meet him and have this opportunity to perform his song.
Gast贸n, si alg煤n d铆a lees este blog te mando un abrazo 馃槆
Now I should come back to the present, right...? but it was nice to walk down the memory line, to that year, place and musician I met at my work. At the same time, this situation brings me a feeling that I should never ever play in public if I am not well prepared, as I can never know if there is a musician in the audience or the composer of a piece I perform 馃榿
