Sonni Quick

Shippensburg

Piano improvisations expressing emotions. My music tell stories without the words. Most of my recordings have been completed in about 30 minutes. When I feel the desire to express my emotions I sit at the piano and press the record button. I prefer playing in minor flat keys. They feel and sound different to me. I don't think about what I'm going to play. I don't plan a chord sequence. I just play and record straight through until it's done. I then lay 1 - 4 tracks on top of each other mentally mixing the sounds to each other. I don't know how to mix sounds electronically or fix mistakes. It's all done by ear, sometimes in the dark, my favorite way to play. I've been composing and performing most of my life. At this point in my own history I started playing the piano 60 years ago and teaching and playing in piano bars for 48 of them, starting in college. The music I play now is beyond what my capabilities were then. I am far from technically the best keyboard player, but the music I play is the music I heard in my head as a child but didn't have the ability to play. I was ten when I decided I would teach people how to play the piano. I don't care if I am well known. I have no drive to make money with my music. Being able to play is reward enough. My one and only desire is to tell my stories - the music that comes out with no planning or crafting. I feel what I feel, close my eyes and my hands play those thoughts. This is what I leave of me to my generations to come who wonder where their desire to make music comes from. I learned recently that my grandmother was an accomplished pianist when she was young. Her husband made her stop. She was to be a housewife. No one told me. I read a diary she left. Now I have great-grandchildren. They will know who I am through my music.

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