Etude 0.5

It was certainly a busy Father's day.  It started off with rain up in Oro country heading back home to TO, avoiding cyclists in trying to get to the 400 hwy, but it turned into a beautiful warm sunny day.  It was also the Taste of little Italy and the church was at the end of the College St strip of little Italy.  So parking and traffic could be an issue, but luckily it was ok.

Kieran's first concert was 1 year ago and he had just started taking lessons with Dorothy.  Now he's doing solo's in his 3rd concert.  He only knew 1/2 of Etude, which is why he stops his bow for the double time.  But he probably just needed to practice more.

He likes his violin.  But Pokemon trumps it.

Hopefully he looks at it as incentive to practice smarter.  To learn the pieces properly instead of rushing through them so he can watch TV.  Although he's played it many times, it wasn't very polished.

To his credit he was the person with the least amount of experience with the violin in that performance. Everyone else had been with Dorothy longer.  But not by much.  The asian girl to his left had only started a few weeks before him, but she may have been at another music school.  That I do not know.


The lack of preparedness may teach him to focus more during his practices and lessons.