Be my guest

Maybe my face got a whiter shade of pale from all that screen time {sitting in front of it since this morning}. I should check it in the mirror, that would mean another little break and it would do me good. Ok, I also forced myself to get up and go for a walk and do some physical activity, which did me good, but after lunch, I went back to work. So, what am I doing?

Selecting.

Searching for suitable songs and selecting from the musical scores for a gig I accepted. I have exactly one week to prepare it (hmm... actually I accepted it about ten days ago already, but I let my days go with their rhythm and I still didn't do anything to prepare it). No, don't even mention that word that starts with the letter p... pro... pro-cras... pro-cras-ti... pro-cras-ti-na...

That's enough, I said not to mention it!

As soon as I got up this morning I scolded myself that I still don't have the repertoire ready. I had nothing, to be honest! Nada! This is really the last moment to select the works, get all the necessary material - scores, transfer them from my laptop to the tablet and start studying. Seriously studying.

This will be interesting. The last time I was preparing a new repertoire in a limited time (Christmas repertoire) I went into that just practice and go crazy mode. This time I want to prepare a repertoire of almost two hours of new songs. No way, it is not possible... but anyway, I have to want to try it as this gig I accepted will be a bit different than the usual ones I play on Sunday mornings. This is the same place, the same hotel where I always play but this time in the lobby bar 360°, in the middle of this circle thingy.

The very thought of being in the middle of this circle brings a paleness to my face. Also, my piano will be directly connected to all the speakers so... one mistake and I am dead (of shame, not that anyone will be holding a gun to my head 😂). Why do I want to suffer select different songs for this event? Simply, the guests who already listened to me on Sunday, and happened to stay for a few days, would not be pleased (or maybe yes?) to listen again to the same type of music. I know, they all like my choices and how I play, however, if they want to have a drink in the lobby and listen to some more entertaining music, I should select according to that.

A subtle invitation for my readers 😁:

If you want to help me survive this gig and still read some of my posts after the 18th of February, please be my guest, have a drink 🥃 in the lobby bar and maybe recommend me a musical piece/song that you would like to hear from a pianist while you are on vacation. 🙏

Note - if you don't like alcoholic drinks, then here comes a sweet substitution. The recommended songs don't necessarily have to be sweet though.

So far, since this morning, I selected 48 songs that I haven't performed yet... and many more can come! The only question is... who will learn all of this in one week?? 😱😂