Halloween Piano Recital

October 21st

It has been such a fun yet busy post-covid year! It's almost as if everyone is trying to make up for the lost activities. This year, the piano store Riverton Pianos hosted a free Halloween recital. I signed up my students that were willing to play, which was most of them. We chose Halloween-themed songs when we could. A few students, like Gabe, chose a song they liked instead of a Halloween one, and Ian chose a song to match his costume. Elisa chose "This is Halloween" from the Nightmare Before Christmas, and she worked really hard on it and pretty much nailed it for the recital.  This was a nice recital for me because I did pretty much nothing, aside from prepping the kids for it. I ordered a piano dress and scarf off Amazon for this recital just for fun, but it was so dark in there I don't think anyone noticed at all. No matter--I'll likely use it for future recitals.
The recital was fun. It started out with a fun interactive activity and then the kids just went up when their name showed up on the screen. I didn't have a chair, so I sat on the ground. It was a little long, I think there were at least 20 kids that played. There were even a few singers, but they were not fun to hear, at least when we could actually hear them. Yikes. I think my students played the best, but maybe I'm just biased. At least, they seemed more prepared than the other students. Here are some videos:

The interactive activity

Silly Elisa played in her gloves. She did really well. 

For Ian's Bowser Theme song, click here

Ian messed up a little bit, but overall, he did a good job. I think people liked that his costume matched his song.

For Gabe's solo, "The Piano Player's Chocolate Eatin' Blues" click here

Gabe did a good job playing his song!

We took some pictures after the recital was over:

Here are the pictures that I stole off of the Riverton Pianos Facebook page. There was a contest going that whoever had the most likes on their picture would win a cauldron of candy. I had no interest in more candy and I certainly wasn't going to get more than 2 likes so I didn't bother sharing the pictures on my FB page, but I'm happy they took these pictures anyway!

Overall, a fun and low-stress recital. I might have my students play again next year!