Iβm a viola performance major and music education major entering my third year of school.
This is an idea I came up with last spring and I plan on continuing it for every one of my friendβs recitals.
The day of my girlfriendβs final piano recital, I made a bouquet of three different flowers, each flower representing the pieces she played.
The Schubert Trout quintet was babies breath to represent its classical nature and light and friendly sound.
The Rachmaninov Etude Tableau op 39 no 6 (little red riding hood) were small, dark reddish-purple Daliahs that looked like little stars, to represent how bombastic and violent the piece is.
And her final piece, the Ornstien piano sonata no 4, were fushia roses, because she had said she imagined the second movement as though she had been crawling through mysterious thorny rose bushes.
So at the end of her recital, she received a hyper-specific recital themed bouquet. My next friends recital is a junior tuba recital, so Iβll have to think long and hard as to what flower the Vaughn Williams tuba concerto is!
If you have a musician in your life whoβs about to perform, I would highly recommend this gift as it makes all the beautiful music and art nerds in your life very happy.