CarpCharacin
From the 2020 thread:
47 years ago I played the bull fiddle in Carp Minnesota, and my girlfriend played the piano, backed by a 16 member jazz choir. This was our first public concert, and well, ya can't start at Carnegie Hall. We started in Carp MN, population, almost 300. (The orchestra pit at Carnagie holds 300.
)It was the most culture they'd ever had, except Canadian TV. (US TV didn't reach Carp.)
We did Bourree for Bach, from the folio The Baroque goes Bop.
I was so nervous I played the whole piece perfectly. Double-time.
Shocked though I was that I'd done this, I still hit the first beat on the second half and did it again, double-time.
Because it was Jazz, it sounded great. I had doubled Bach's expectations at the tender age of 16, but by the end I was exhausted! The GF was impressed. I was on the freakin' moon.
Later the director said it was our best performance ever, and that having an audience was the key.
Uhhhh . . . yeah. Maybe, but I think it was the adrenaline.
