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Post by petite joueuse on Feb 9, 2007 16:38:02 GMT
I've got loads more where that one came from, possom - trouble is they are sort of "urban legend" by now - did a kid REALLY say that or did we just make it up?
con moto - with a motorbike? espressivo - with black coffee?
And I'm sure someone told me once that 80MM at the start of a piece was how many M & Ms you were supposed to eat while playing the piece!
the list goes on....but I think we probably made some of them up after a glass of wine too many....
But a GENUINE one from a parent at Parents' Evening last night, re daughter doing AS level French "She's not got no problems with them verbs - no its the PROVERBS she can't do"!!
so this is probably the wrong thread!!
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Post by YetAnotherKlavierist on Feb 11, 2007 11:39:52 GMT
Con brio? With a train set Always think of that one as 'with a ballpoint pen' .
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Post by jod on Feb 11, 2007 15:39:11 GMT
my best was as a 16 year old. These walzes of Chopin were published post-humourously.
Teachers response what did he die laughing?
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Post by petite joueuse on Feb 11, 2007 16:17:58 GMT
Well, I often think that the posthumous ones were ones that were so bad he would never have published them if he'd been alive!
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Post by Dulciana on Feb 11, 2007 21:53:42 GMT
I remember hearing that he requested that the Fantasie Impromptu be burnt.
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Post by YetAnotherKlavierist on Feb 11, 2007 22:36:03 GMT
Would have been a bit of a blow if that one had ended up in your firewood pile .
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Post by Dulciana on Feb 12, 2007 0:26:31 GMT
Would have been a bit of a blow if that one had ended up in your firewood pile . Might have been the best place for it, given the time I've wasted on it. ;D (But I can play the first page from memory - badly. ) Now back to Steve's Happy Bits, before he shouts.
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 15, 2007 19:26:50 GMT
14 year old Jess again. Faffing around trying to play Middle C and accusing it of being almost anything else. Me: "Um. Doesn't the line through the middle of the note offer something of a clue?" Jess: "It should do, but not when I am in a spaz." Later on, Middle C again causes a problem. Me: "Um. The line again.....?" Jess: "Oh God. I am such a spoon."
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Post by Dulciana on Feb 16, 2007 11:38:29 GMT
Grade 6-ish pupil arrives with new piece of music to tackle. On leaving, mother says, "Well, does she think you'll be able to manage it?", to which pupil replies, "Yes, it must be easy, because she could sight-read it."
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 16, 2007 23:09:08 GMT
Ant, of just-7, blonde-haired, gappy-toothed fame. She did something clever tonight, so I said, "Give yourself as many Offiial Pats On The Head as you like." Ant started patting. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.......... No. This is going to take too long. Ummmmmmmmmm. I know. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90...... ummmmmmmmmmm" Thinks for a few seconds, then triumphantly, "90 plus 10. Yessssssssssssss"
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Post by kerioboe on Feb 17, 2007 19:49:11 GMT
Grade 6-ish pupil arrives with new piece of music to tackle. On leaving, mother says, "Well, does she think you'll be able to manage it?", to which pupil replies, "Yes, it must be easy, because she could sight-read it." My then six-and-a-half-year-old daughter arriving at her cello lesson when the pupil before her was away and her teacher was using the time to put in a bit of practise for herself: "I didn't know you knew how to play properly with all your fingers." ;D
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 18, 2007 13:33:27 GMT
If Heidi passes her RMS audition, she will be assessed for fitness. Part of this assessment involves carrying 2 x 20 kilo barrels for as long as possible (that's 88 lbs in old money). She was asking how heavy is 40 kilos on the way to her singing lesson yesterday, but I hadn't a clue. I have just been to pick up a 25 kilo bag of bird seed, so I stopped off at her home so Heidi could have a lift and see what just over half the weight felt like. She hefted the bag out of the boot with far more ease than I can muster, then stood smiling at me whilst she held it for about half a minute. After popping it back in the boot, she wasn't even breathing heavily. ;D In the past, I have automatically put myself in between any perceived threat and Heidi; there haven't been many such moments but the instincts are strong. In future I shan't bother. I shall just get behind Heidi; she's stronger than me. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 20, 2007 14:31:58 GMT
"I've got a folder" is 14 year old Gareth's main defence against anything these days. I have become very fond of this young man. I have been putting him through grade 5 theory for his Trumpet teacher. Entering him this time means Gareth is facing the exam next week, a month before he is ready, but we decided to take a punt in the hope that we could forget about it after that. Early in the process, Gareth got hold of a folder to keep the notes I gave him in one place; "Look, I've got a folder" he announced portentously. We are spending a lot of time together, to try to get him up to scratch. Whenever I threaten to torture him horribly for doing something daft, he announces, "You can't do that. I've got a folder." Last night, he confessed to his mum that he had committed a crime in school that resulted in a lunchtime detention. "But," he declared brandishing his folder, "you can't be cross cos I've got a folder." It worked. His mum was too busy laughing to be cross.
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 20, 2007 16:54:11 GMT
Sisters Danni and Carla, 13 & 11 respectively, just had a lessonm Mum dropped them off and I ran them home afterwards. Looking through a new piece with Carla, I said, "The next bar is a repeat of this one." Then I looked more closely. "Apart from this note, and this one, and that one, and those two. Hmmmm. Actually, it is completely different. Oops." Dani giggled. "It's a Steveism." she chuckled. "It is what we call those moments when you are talking nonsense. Mum always asks if there were any Steveism's in the lesson. There usually are a few." Hey ho.
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Post by chocolatedog on Feb 20, 2007 22:58:08 GMT
Ehup
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