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charlene · 02-25-2011, 01:13 PM

When my son was taking piano lessons and participating in Kiwanis festivals - as Lightfoot did as a singer when he was a young lad, his teacher always stressed being punctual and taking control of the audience fromt he moment he walked onstage. How he entered, reacted to the audience and approached the piano and then sat was part of it. The other was to know how long to wait until he started his piece. In all of the times he competed the adjudicators always mentioned how my son was so good at all of that and it played a large part of the marks he received.
Perhaps that attitude taken from lessons and competitions played a large part in how Lightfoot comports himself onstage.
Whomever walks out onstage as part of the Lightfoot orchestra in mid-March will obviously have full endorsement of Lightfoot for his/her stage prescence, personality and musical ability to perform to the standards Lightfoot holds not only for the other guys but himself.
There was the Red/Terry transition, the Pee Wee/Mike transition...it's all worked..
It's his name on those tickets and we know that nothing short of his view of excellence will be sanctioned. It will be different, it will sound different, it will feel different but it will be excellent I'm sure.

02-25-2011, 01:13 PM	#16
charlene Moderator Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 16,001	Re: Who could Gord get to replace Terry? When my son was taking piano lessons and participating in Kiwanis festivals - as Lightfoot did as a singer when he was a young lad, his teacher always stressed being punctual and taking control of the audience fromt he moment he walked onstage. How he entered, reacted to the audience and approached the piano and then sat was part of it. The other was to know how long to wait until he started his piece. In all of the times he competed the adjudicators always mentioned how my son was so good at all of that and it played a large part of the marks he received. Perhaps that attitude taken from lessons and competitions played a large part in how Lightfoot comports himself onstage. Whomever walks out onstage as part of the Lightfoot orchestra in mid-March will obviously have full endorsement of Lightfoot for his/her stage prescence, personality and musical ability to perform to the standards Lightfoot holds not only for the other guys but himself. There was the Red/Terry transition, the Pee Wee/Mike transition...it's all worked.. It's his name on those tickets and we know that nothing short of his view of excellence will be sanctioned. It will be different, it will sound different, it will feel different but it will be excellent I'm sure.