Piano Recital

I have been interested in piano since the first time I saw the instrument which was roughly around first grade. My grandparents had a piano in their bedroom and I would always play when I was visiting them. Later in the years they gave me the piano and I started attending a course. For four years I was tutored and then unfortunately my desire to play disappeared. Around 10th grade I started back again on my own and learnt several pieces, which sounded very well and as time went on I kept learning and learning.

This semester I decided to take up a piano course and learn something new. It is very interesting so far and very challenging on one side as you have to keep up with all your lessons and other courses, but also to find time to practice which is not necessarily a small time period.

I have been learning a piece by Chopin called Nocturne Op. 9 which is one of the best classical pieces out there. I new a little part before starting the course, but today I can proudly say I know almost the whole thing and not only that. In few weeks I will have my second master class which is basically a group concert of the people in the piano course and you get to see how the others a going and what they are learning.

My parents managed to buy an electric piano this Winter so whenever I get back home I can practice and not lose shape as it is extremely easy to do so.

Here is the piece I am performing:

Check out the video it is really amazing.
Do you play any instrument or want to learn how to?
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The Art of Acting

A university that satisfies all its students' needs is indeed a good university. Academics might be a priority, but one develops himself in various ways and that is why there should be variety of options and challenges every students can take.

If we set aside the usual stuff - work-studies and clubs - those that, indeed, will broaden your horizon in one way or another, students can devote their time in other curious ways. For instance, different forms of art - piano, drawing, choir or theater.

I personally decided to take up Acting. Throughout the whole summer before senior year we have been discussing it with some of my best friends that the very last semester should be filled with all kinds of emotions. There you go. For the last 4 weeks we have been rehearsing a play which will be performed some time in April. It consists of three miniatures which are not connected, but have something in common - comedy.

The miniature I am part of is called "The Proposal" and it is about a middle-aged man who is in desperate need for a wife and he is asking for the hand of his neighbor's daughter, who is in desperate need for a husband. While reading the lines for the first time we did not really know what to expect and it did not sound interesting or as a comedy sounds. But, however, as we started analyzing each character, imagining them in different situations, making interactions with one another, it all started making sense and eventually we got so into it that we are now absolutely sure it will turn out as a great comedy.

More updates will come later in the semester.

Have you ever been part of a play?
Which one?
What are your favorite forms of art?

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