Christmas Piano Recital

Here's our piano recital for Christmas 2022. Each Morrison kid plays three songs, including a duet with me. Fun!

Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/haEXEvaEV78

Summer Piano Recital

This should more accurately be called the spring piano recital, as the kids finished these songs back in April and May. But it's taken me this long to edit the videos and put it together! So here you have it ... the Morrisons' Summer Piano Recital!

Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/x-xq8ZdL_WM

Christmas Piano Recital

Presenting (drum roll, please) ... the Morrison Children's 2021 Christmas Piano Recital!

Direct link to the video: https://youtu.be/CfErkbNRvYY

Some fun holiday classics, plus a few extras thrown in (including CC's piece de resistance, a song she's been working on for 6 months). Enjoy, and merry Christmas!

Summer Piano Recital

It's getting harder to find time to practice piano, now that the kids are in school five days a week! But here are a few of the kids' latest pieces. 

CC only has one song in this recital, because she's working on a very long song that's taking most of her practice time. She will debut that one at a much later date!

Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/1LIXEudHqQw

Spring Piano Recital 2021

Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/TPU1LYWqX1E

I'm proud of how the kids are doing with piano! This is our first recital since I started teaching the kids myself, and I have to admit, it's working out pretty well. It's not really any extra work for me, since I would help them every day with their lessons anyway. And now there's less stress about missing practice sessions when we have other activities going on -- which has been happening a lot lately!

Christmas Piano Recital

Better late than never! I had this all ready to post, and then somehow the video editing program deleted one of CC's pieces. Ugh! We had to re-record it, much to her frustration, but finally -- here it is!

Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/rzuHBh4oq2I

Hope everyone had the happiest of holidays!

2020 Piano Recital

Thanks to coronavirus, our piano teacher did not hold a piano recital this year. Instead, he encouraged us to record our best pieces and share the video with friends and family. So here you go!

Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/WBaqnOIkxoI

Mother's Day Piano Recital

Mother's Day was very nice: MJ surprised me and my mom with flowers and a nice breakfast in the morning, then we went to Mass (CC's first "regular" Mass where she received the Eucharist). Afterwards my dad and Matt treated us all to a very nice brunch.

The big event of the day, however, was the kids' piano recital. Unfortunately it was an evening recital, which was tricky -- at the end of a long, exciting day, when they would normally be getting ready for bed, our kids are hardly in the best frame of mind to sit quietly for an hour and listen respectfully to a piano recital.

Little Man did well, despite being aggressively heckled by his sisters.

When Little Man started misbehaving later in the recital, MJ removed him from the room -- and so neither of them got to watch CC or Sweet Pea play.

Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/NCm9nrXaIkc

At the end, I was proud of the kids for working hard on their pieces, if not for their behavior at the recital. I think we will bow out of any future recitals held at night!

May Piano Recital

Another way Mother's Day was special this year was the kids' piano recital that afternoon. They loved showing off their musical skills in front of me, Daddy, Memere and Pepere.

Little Man played "Never Smile at a Crocodile" from Peter Pan and "Bibbiti Bobbiti Boo" from Cinderella. Sweet Pea and I played a duet to "She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain," and then she played "I've been Wishing" -- a piece she only started learning three weeks ago! CC played "A Whole New World" from Aladdin, "Safety First" and "Scales and Arpeggios" from The Aristocats.

I'm so proud of them! Now we just need to work on Little Man not heckling other people's performances.

 

Direct link to the video: https://youtu.be/vz07odOnALk

Piano Recital

Even though the kids have only been taking piano for a few months now, they were excited to learn there'd be a Christmas recital to perform in. And since their music book included adult accompaniment, I played duets with them all. It was so fun!

We had fun practicing our duets in the weeks leading up to the recital. And when it was go time, there were no nerves! In fact, their teacher asked all the kids after each song, "Who wants to go next?" and everyone's hands would go flying up. 

I'd warned him that Sweet Pea might balk at the last minute, but she shyly came up to the bench when it was her turn, and played very well.

We were so proud of our little munchkins! And they beg to watch the video every day.

Direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-04gwOto9sI

Piano Lessons

I finally found a teacher who will come to our house to teach the kids piano lessons! Sweet Pea and Little Man have theirs on Tuesday afternoons after preschool, while CC has hers on Tuesday morning before school, because her school gets out so late.

Sweet Pea has taken to it like a fish to water. She loves to practice every day, and her finger dexterity is very impressive. This week, Mr Jimmie gave her permission to sneak ahead in her practice book, so she's excited to be in the lead.

Little Man doesn't have as much patience as his twin, and he's not as interested in learning to play. But he's the most musically inclined of our kids, and when he heard Mr Jimmie play the Star Wars theme song this week, it almost made his brain explode. 

CC will start her lessons next week, but in the last two weeks I've taught her what her siblings have learned, so she hasn't missed much. Let's hope this is money well spent!