Ustream Recap!

Just a quick note:

I cannot BELIEVE that I forgot to mention in the video that after I finished playing the Debussy, the judge said, "nice dynamics."

His words meant the world to me because it was as if he acknowledged how I kept fighting to make the song amazing even with a terrible keyboard that had NO dynamic range. No one would have been the wiser if I had just done a mediocre job and played all the right notes. I could always say that the keyboard was the problem, since it was a problem. But instead, I took comfort knowing that as long as I had a great attitude about it, the performance would be "okay" anyways; that gave me the freedom to try harder and aim for a great performance knowing that I couldn't fail. I fought to have dynamics in that piece, and his, albeit brief, comment really made me believe that he could tell how hard I was trying not to settle for "okay."

Again, I cannot believe I left that out since it carried more weight than he could have possibly imagined.