I'm about half done with the back. I've attached the second ball so I do fear I will cut close on having enough yarn. (I have nine balls of yarn. If the backs and fronts together take roughly five - which is what I am predicting - that only leaves two each for the sleeves, which are fairly broad.)
I started a new piano piece yesterday. After completing Tchaikovsky's "Italian Folk Song" to our mutual satisfaction, she put me onto a classical-era Etude by....I want to say the composer is Hassler, but the only Hassler I can find is the wrong era. It's something like that, at any rate, a composer I've never heard of. (I'm still working on, and still struggling with the ending of, Bach's Invention Number 4).
Sometimes I hear something on the radio - a piano transcription of Kreisler's Liebesleid was the one yesterday - and I think, "Oh, someday, I might be able to play that." But I don't know. It's such hard work for me and I don't know if I've EVER played anything through 100% mistake-free and still capturing all the dynamics and mood of the piece. I know I will never perform because of my apparent inability, despite much practice, to be sure I will be mistake free- I can be playing very well, and then all of a sudden hit a wrong note. The people who perform must be different somehow - better, more sure of themselves, I don't know what. I admit, I kind of despair of ever being able to play mistake-free - if I've been working for 5 years or so on it, and I'm still hitting wrong notes even when I know a piece fairly well.
Or, I don't know. Maybe the people who play perfectly do put in much longer (like years rather than weeks/months) on mastering a piece completely.
Or maybe people do make mistakes in performances and people overlook them. I don't know. I can't overlook them in myself.
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I think people do make mistakes in performances and people overlook them, or aren't even aware of them. The only person who knows is the performer.
In my experience with performing, it's like what purlewe says: the people who perform a lot still make mistakes, but they carry on and few people notice. There's a story I loved about a tenor who realized he couldn't hit the high note at the end of his song, so he planted himself, opened his mouth wide, and gave his best act of 'tenor singing the high note.' The orchestra was loud enough and his act was convincing enough they called for an encore, and he did the same thing again.
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