went very well. It was nice and short. The performances were all good. (I've sat through some very painful ones, and I have trained my ears to handle screetching and scraaatching but there was no need to resort to drastic measures today.)
Overall, my impressions are: the kids' hand positions are plain awful; the tempos are plain awful too.
There was one exception to this among the pianists and this was Ballet Girl. There was one exception among the violinists and this was a five-year old girl.
Ballet Girl chose to skip the repeats which is completely fine. She did not make any major mistakes. The piece did not sound polished - most notably, the dynamic was absent- but the tempo was right on and consistent.
My take away is that Ballet Girl needs to associate a story with the piece in order to understand the dynamics, and this is something I will have to work on with the teacher.
After the pretty miserable Barnes&Nobles fiasco, I am glad that this performance happened. We move on to better piano times.
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