It’s been quite a week, and getting our first (and hopefully final) offer on the house was, believe it or not, the least of it. This was the week that each year I spend the entire year preparing for, the week of the nationwide auditions of the National Piano Guild. Every year, at the first lesson after the June recital, we are assigned the four to six pieces that we will spend an entire year studying and practicing in preparation to perform before a concert pianist judge at the Guild auditions the following spring. This year – seven very challenging pieces from the likes of none other than Bach, Burgmuller, and Spindler, to name a few.
