Many many years ago, in Barcelona, in a big room at the music conservatoire. Five elder serious men and women sitting in front of me, a big piano and on a table a little box with small numbered balls. One had to choose one ball for every field of music. For example Bach, Sonatas of Beethoven or Chopin.
Time for examination, hmmmm....
The turn had come to Chopin and his Etudes. I think there where five or seven etudes on the list, one ball for each of them. I do not remember which of them I had to play but it was one that I had learned "by heart".
To "learn by heart" is a beautiful expression! It is not that poetic in swedish.
Why did I learn exactly that one by heart?
Well, because the hands had to jump a lot and it was impossible for me to look up and down from the piano keys up to the music notes. My head got too dizzy, as simple as that.
Gosh, I was nervous!
In this moment I did not only got dizzy but my brain became black, empty, white, a complete washout. What a shame! It was really terrible.
Somehow I finished the etude without disappearing through the floor.
However, it did not help to improve my possibilities to pass the exam that the next piece was a piece of cake: the first slow part from the well known Moonlight sonata from Beethoven which I had played for years. I was devastated, the whole body trembling.
Thinking back it was a very interesting experience that I will never forget.
Wow, what a fantastic memory I have!!!
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