No one will be seated once the performance begins.

 

Just as a runner keeps a Band-Aid in their pocket, in case they get a blister on their foot, I keep a piano reed in the event I’m up on stage playing and a reed splits. 

Bothering me more than a split reed, however, is the constant hum from the overhead lights.  I’ve often been accused of humming along with the tune being played.  How can they possibly think it is me humming?  It never fluctuates, there is no tempo, no change in scale or anything else.  It’s just a flat, annoying hum of electrical current passing through harsh, unflattering lighting.

There is never any mention of it in the program they hand out before the concert.  It talks about everything else, why not this stupid hum?

Maybe I’ll get here early and just write in every program, 

IT’s Not The Piano Player!

 

Okay, maybe I better not.