Enjoy these videos from the boys’ piano recitals at the end of May. The boys will definitely miss Miss Ashley.
We haven’t found a piano teacher here quite yet…but we aren’t looking quite yet either.
Timmy:
Jacob:
This has been an insane holiday season! But let me just toss up some You Tube videos showing off the kids. These were all taken with our new camera…with the telephoto lens zoomed in as far as it would go.
I promise I have so much more to write about this week, bear with me, thanks!
The first four are from the boys’ piano recital last Friday night. The first two are Timmy, the second two are of Jacob.
And this is Jacob this morning reciting a poem he wrote himself at the school’s “Peppermint Parade”, in which each student from four of the classes recited a poem about winter, Christmas, or any other theme from this time of year. I apologize for the zoom sounds in the first 15 seconds or so…I had a hard time seeing whether the image was zoomed in or not. I need to learn to adjust that manually so you can’t hear the motor.
I’m only putting text here because otherwise those colorful “Share This” buttons cover up the controls for the Peppermint Parade video.
The boys performed at their Spring piano recital this week. Most of Ms. Herbstreith’s students are beginners, so we had perforances as simple as Old McDonald, but she also has a couple middle school students who play more advanced sonatas. The songs are short, but you can get an idea of the skills the boys are developing!
Dave has been very busy this week: wildfires just north of base came very close to the north end of the base and the hazard caused the Air Force base leadership to have to prepare for evacuations from housing and nearby neighborhoods. Dave was able to break away from work just long enough to come to the church and watch the boys, and then had to leave right away to return to the base.
Enjoy the videos! First is Timmy, then Jacob.
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| Our boys after last night’s holiday piano recital. Their teacher is in the upper right… |
Last night my boys had their holiday piano recital. In Nebraska Jacob only had one recital per year (May), but their teacher here in Florida puts on a nice holiday recital also. They will have a bigger one in May.
This time I brought a tripod to take the video, which helped things out in two ways:
- The video isn’t wobbly at all.
- I could actually watch my sons play, instead of watching them through the viewfinder of the camera.
The boys’ piano teacher likes to give a somewhat-elaborate introduction for each student, which I could cut from Timmy’s but couldn’t find a nice place to cut from Jacob’s. Miss Ashley is saying some nice things about Jacob and his playing, but if you want to skip ahead (and believe me, I’m not offended, Jacob starts playing at about 1:00 into the video).
Timmy’s “Jingle Bells”
Jacob’s “Jingle Bell Rock”
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