Yesterday, the boy had his violin lessons and then his public violin performance later that same afternoon. Yes, it wasn't last week. I remembered wrong.
Anyway, so when his turn came, the teacher lined up the 4 of them to play their pieces. He then moved the microphone stand closer to the kids and was lowering the mike closer to one of them when suddenly, one woman from the audience gasped and exclaimed, "OH MY GOD!"
The teacher looked up, recognised the woman, laughed and then swiftly moved the microphone away to another position.
Meanwhile, another person had nudged the woman who made so much noise and rebuked, "Hey, you should have more confidence lar!"
The microphone had been lowered and placed just 6 inches from my little performer's violin.
Eventually, the boy performed brillantly! He did forget some bits but recovered well.
So yes, the woman, aka I, definitely should have had more confidence in him.
Spoke to the big one on the way to work this morning... apparently he made similar noises too.... something like, "LEOOOOOOOOOW!"... which means "FINISHED!" in Teochew.
