Saturday Daddy took us to see La Nouba by Cirque du Soleil in Downtown Disney. It was so amazing but I can't write about it or post pictures because I haven't been able to recover from the relapse with my arms. Keep up those prayers, please! Namely, that I would have patience not to do work on the computer, play piano, or basically get any work done even though I leave for Switzerland in a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had my vielle (medieval fiddle) debut at church yesterday. I played prelude and postlude and hymns for two services. I did a mostly prepared improvisation on Be Thou My Vision and a different improvisation on the Spanish 13 c. song I did on my audition. It went pretty well considering, and it helped humble me and give me confidence.
The vielle debut was great, and it was interesting to watch the reactions of people at church. There were, as far as I could tell, three: those who didn't pay any attention because they never pay attention to the music (I'm convinced one could play Variations on "Three Blind Mice" for a postlude and these folks wouldn't notice); those who were amazed by the cool sound of the vielle and what Janet did with it; and those (mostly at the early service) who really enjoyed the music but were less amazed because they've come to expect that whenever Janet gets up in front of the church they will hear something that is both good and unusual.
