Sepia Saturday #99-Theme-Musical, music

Sepia Saturday
and
Gratitude challenge day #5

Alan has a photo of a band up this week and there are several items in this photo that could be used as the theme but I choose music.

Now this photo is not 100 years old but it is 56 years old.

St. Catharine Academy

Orchestra

1954-55

Yours truly is the 4th from the left in the 1st violin section.

I studied the violin the four years I was in this school.

I continued to take piano lessons after high school and had not played the violin for years.

In 1990 A Suzuki program came to our town and I joined and took up the violin again.

I was one of only two adults in the program.

Some of the students were are young as 6 years old.
There tiny little violins were so cute.
I found it a little intimidating play with those little tots.

Wow some of them where amazing.

They were required to have a parent or adult take the lessons with them so as to help them practice at home.

I did not have a partner, I taped the lessons and that helped me.

The only thing I remembered about playing the violin,

after a 30 year hiatus, was how to hold the violin, the bow and how to stand.

Of course I could read music but keeping that perfect stance and position to play was hard as could be. 

I thoroughly enjoyed playing the violin again and did so with one of our grands accompanying me on the piano.

We would play at Christmas and holiday times.

About 3 years ago I left my violin in my car in the heat and it melted the glue holding my violin together, so I am violinless again.

Probably won't buy another now.

My shoulders could not stand the strain these days.

I am grateful for my experience with music and surely enjoy the very best of all kinds of music daily.

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An amazing woman.

As most folks know, that have followed my blog for awhile, my only sister died 28 years ago.

We were married in a double wedding in April and April is her birthday month.

I spend the entire month of April thinking about her more than usual and when I came across a forgotten photo of her I have to write about it.

This was taken in June 1958.
Myself, my brother age 12 and my sister at her highschool
graduation.
She graduated from St. Catharine of Sienna Academy in Springfield, Kentucky.
I had graduated from there in 1956.
It was a private girls academy.
My brother graduated from the county public high school.


There was an old boyfriend standing beside me and I had cut his picture off some time ago. LOL
She took a clerical position in our town and was working there when we were married in 1960.
After our marriage she went with her husband who was in the military.
I was an x-ray technician working for a surgeon in his private practice at the time this photo was taken.


My brother went into the military following his graduation from high school in 1964.

St. Catharine Academy for girls graduated it's last high school class some time  in the early 1970's
It is now a thriving University preparing to offer master and doctoral degrees.
It is absolutely a beautiful campus.


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