Ryan's Recital II

Amazingly, it was the time of the year when Milen and his wife puts together the Christmas recital for their students again. Wow, seems like it was not so long ago that we went to the first one in honor of Mother's Day.

There were 20 some kids who played pieces ranging from beginner pieces like what we endured for all 4 offsprings to a couple of boys who in addition to the piano also played on their own recorder and violin. One, an Indian girl of 8, was in her birthday finery and another Chinese girl is going to be 6 in a couple of days so this was a rather special day for both of them. If I may say so myself as a proud mom, he was a league apart from all of them even the boy just before him. Milen had organized the pianists in order of maturity or competency, beginning with the really young who just started but there were a couple who may be older than the Half Man. Both in May and today, Ryan was the final player, like a grand finale.

Here is Ryan's recital, for which he got praised by some folks who came up at the end of the event to congratulate him. One of them even brought her son, Ryan, who played earlier to introduce him to our Ryan. Almost all asked how old he was, I guess to compute in their own minds how good a pianist he is relative to their own kids. One lady jokingly said her daughter has a whole year to come up to his standards. I secretly believe the Half Man basked in all the glory even though he was mostly shy, a tad embarrassed and retiring.



Milen ended the event by playing a Christmas song with his wife singing. I will post their piece later. And because I am such a proud mom, I also posted the Half Man's pieces on YouTube. Here is the link:

The rest of the day was spent waiting in the car while the Half Man joined what was left of the weekly First Tee lesson and in a stupor in bed, catching up on a sleep debt from a whole week of uneasy sleep.