Recital

A good music recital happens when at least one child makes a donkey of him/herself, misbehaves. Another good thing is where the children perform poorly, stumble around, start and restart, get all sweaty and stressed. Today's recital, by these standards, was a failure; all the children behaved and they all played very well. Everyone and everything was just lovely. Yawn. I miss the bad old days when Benny created awful disturbances, jousted with his violin bow, yelled cheerily at his parents who cowered in the cheap seats, turned his back on the audience at time to play, put down his violin, laid on the floor and waved his feet in the air. Today Benny played wonderfully and was a gentleman. Such a shame. End of an era.