Inspiration and the joy of music

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I was sat having a momentary cuppa and a glance over my friends’ Facebook updates when I came across the wonderful Katie of ‘Kate5Kiwis‘ update. She’d posted up a video of her son, Charlie, playing the most beautiful piano piece by Ludovico Einaudi called ‘Primavera’. I was held captivated and had to get my hands on that piece of music straight away. Thankfully the wonders of the Internet came up with ‘sheetzbox.com‘, where free piano sheet music is available!

primavera by Ludovico Einaudi

I am so thankful to Katie and her son for introducing me to this wonderful composer and I’ve been away in another world playing Einaudi’s music. From time to time my own daughter, Charlotte (aka Charli), asks me to play the piano as she drifts off to sleep (her bedroom is next to the lounge and the piano is on the other side of the wall to her bed).

Charli has also been loving the music and I think it’s just marvellous how the Internet can bring so much inspiration. Thanks Katie for sharing your special moment!

I also had a very perfect moment yesterday evening. Charli asked me to play Christmas carols and sat on the piano stool next to me. As we sang she placed her left hand on mine and followed my fingers as I played the chords. I glanced at her and she smiled up at me. I said, ‘I love that you are getting into music so much,’ and she replied, very simply, ‘I’m getting older Mummy’. This is what life’s about 🙂 x

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5 thoughts on “Inspiration and the joy of music”

  1. Whow Sarah love…what a treasure to read this and just such a beautiful piece of music….I watched Charlie playing it and was blown away as I sat and listened to it looking out of the window here at the garden under a blanket of snow this morning and it just looks so beautiful !! Will listen to it again and again and what a talent Charlie has and he plays with such feeling and emotion. You will certainly enjoy playing that composer’s music and you certainly had your own special moment as you played next to Charli…magic!!

  2. Well I guess Anya playing Jingle bells is just the begining! That music looks very complicated (we can only do C chord and haven’t learnt to move either hand yet!). It sounds beautiful and Charli is very lucky to have her own personal pianist!

    xo

  3. *so* glad you love it too.

    it’s true that there’s no such thing as ‘practice’ here – he just loves to play… i had the adrenalin rush and the goosebumps during the ‘real’ recital, and he was completely lost in it from about ten seconds in.

    let us know which others of einaudi’s you love X

  4. Thanks so much for sourcing the free sheet music. I watched the clip of Charlie playing yesterday and was so impressed, both with his playing and with the music. I already had a fruitless look on Amazon but will definitelty be printing it off and having a go at playing it myself.

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