Solfegettio
When i was growing up here in brantford I was one of the kids who wanted to play the piano. But that wasn’t possible, it wasn’t realized until after I got to St John’s and Mrs. Bohemier and Mr. Pin urged me to train myself to play the piano. So I brought my grade 1 exercise book to the music room after hours and practiced as best I could. Soon I started to realize that aside from the exercises in that book, there were melodic pieces that caught my ear and the ears of others.
So I recorded the pieces that stood out and played them for one of my colleagues in the music department. He would listen to the songs on the recorder and write them out in notation so other people could perform them. That was very satisfying at the time, hearing other people play something that had fallen out of my fingers.
At that time a former student of mine, Diana D, took me on as a student and she suggested I practice as a starting piece Three Blind Mice. I just couldn’t get my right and left hand to work together. So I would always go back to those melodies that had fallen from my fingers serendipitously.
One thing led to another, and I was walking down the hall a few weeks ago on my way to the staff room and around the corner came Mrs. Marriott and she said “Moyer! I have something to show you.”
She turned on a computer and it proceeded to play an arrangement of hers of one of my piano pieces, “Solfeggeto”. The original of which you can listen to here.
The recording above is from a live performance of the St John’s Concert Band, conducted by Mrs. Marriott, at the end of the 2013-2014 school year.
Indeed, you never know what will come out of your fingertips. Let’s hear it for music!