DD15 drew quite a crowd and considerable applause today for playing (really, just riffing) a public piano (part of a public art installation) on the local Uni campus-- the approval came from a piano professor and his class.

He assumed that she was a majoring in performance and welcomed her to the campus. Upon learning that she wasn't a music student, he was very surprised, and encouraged her to take some performance credits.

She played around with some Ellington standards, swung a Clementi sonatina, and realized that the recovery time wasn't good enough to try the Bartok, so she fiddled around with some stride instead.

Apparently he was particularly smitten with her thoughtful and fluid rendering of a Joplin concert waltz. She does play that loose, jazzy/gypsy stuff well-- she just FEELS it. It's amazing-- she can make the timing very elastic or something-- it's hard to explain, and she only does it when she's relaxed, so I'm pretty proud of her composure in front of a crowd! She just went to play and make performance art, and to impress the boyfriend (who had never heard her play). Little did she know, right?

They listened to her play for about forty minutes all told, evidently.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.