It wasn't that great a day...
I've not been feeling well the past couple of days, and road construction had my running late for class this morning. Concert choir was at First Pres in Columbia today and something or another was going on at the Koger center and I wasn't able to get a parking spot when I got back to the school of music. 15 minutes late for class, I was stressed out. Got to class and there was a note on the door that we were meeting in the recital hall, so I headed that way to sneak in late and when I opened the door I saw an old woman at the piano just finishing playing something, and tv cameras.

I immediately recognized the woman as Marion McPartland and realized she is in town rehearsing with the USC orchestra for her performance on Thursday and she must be giving a special performance for the school!

We were treated to more music by her, a question and answer session that lead to her sharing some of her life's story and inviting a student to play a duet with her (the student had asked how she coordinates the duets when she plays on the show) and then a bit more discussion, the invitation of more students to play with her which ended up being an upright bass player and trombone, and a baritone sax that came up mid-performance. After that another pianist and trumpet were added to the mix which was followed by another duet by her and one of the professors.

So while my day started off as a drag it was made so much better! Fun stuff!
- posted by Nick @ 11/13/2007 05:19:00 PM | 0 comments