If this doesn't make you smile!

[furtwaengler]

July 21, 2011. I flipped the recorder on when my then 5 year old niece, Milly was improvising on my broken Clavinova. It is a sweet, sweet interaction filled with moments that will make anybody smile and laugh. At one point she leaves the room to get her own keyboard, and what then ensues is priceless. Ah, the voice of a child, the innocence, the wonder and sense of discovery!

No matter what kind of day you've had, I hope this inspires you to rediscover that wonder in yourself. 

Dave

(Also heard in the background is the now deceased cockatiel, Moonbeam.)

[quantum]

Sounds like she was playing Dies Irae.    It recurred several times. The interaction between the both of you is priceless.  There were times where her keyboard playback fits in with your Chopin.  Wonderful moment!

[chopinatic]

That was a special moment captured

[unholeee]

what is the piece with the chords about midway?

[furtwaengler]

Sounds like she was playing Dies Irae.    It recurred several times. The interaction between the both of you is priceless.  There were times where her keyboard playback fits in with your Chopin.  Wonderful moment!

Yes, Dies Irae could be proof we're related.

what is the piece with the chords about midway?

There are four things I remember. Most prominent throughout is the first movement of Chopin's 3rd sonata. Snippets include, from the same Chopin book, the 1st Ballade and last movement of the 2nd Sonata (not as audible because of Milly's keyboard), and out of space, a Paganini theme that's always popping up in my head.

Thanks for listening guys! I get a real charge out of this recording.

[pianowolfi]

Yes, so sweet and beautiful!

The voice of children has something very special! I also heard some children speak on my bike ride today, and, as I was tackling the mountain, I thought that they have really an a priori positivity, you can see it in their eyes and hear this universal positivity in their voice and in their thoughts Even if something is really problematic, or evil, they try to smother it in positivity.

I have had many such moments in my lessons with little ones, even the Dies Irae also came up somewhen.

When I was very little I used to sing a lot, I just sang what I heard inwardly, it was really huge and I felt that it was huge. And my mom told me later that she had heard something "cosmic" in my singing, I must have been 3 or 4 I think. And actually I remember it very distinctly, not the melodies, but the overall feeling, and sometimes I think all I try to do now is finding back to the sources of what I heard inwardly, back then.