ballet gig

I just got back from a nice gig. Catherine's sister, Ellen, is a ballet dancer and teacher, and called me to see if I wanted to play piano for a class she was teaching this morning. I did that as one of my first gigs one summer — right in that very room in Incarnate Word where I was this morning. What a fun time, hearing each set of ballet exercises and mentally composing some music to go along with the moves and tempo and number of counts, and then seeing if it all works out. I'll have to record the next one.