Harrison’s Old Cello Recordings

My recollection is that we have boxes and boxes of old piano and cello practices and performances between my sister and I sitting in some box somewhere. My father was able to find a new toy to convert some old cassettes into MP3 files.

He sent me a handful through email the other day, and I pulled out some samples of my cello playing.  I think I started playing cello in the 3rd or 4th grade all the way until college.  Below are some songs from when I was pretty bad…

when I got better…

and when I sounded awesome.

I still have my doubts that the last recording was really me, as all the notes were pitch perfect.  I do remember the song, all the notes, and most of the fingering still after all these years.  My vague recollection was that this was when I was in middle school in Maryland.

I called up my father about this recording, and he swears it was me.  He tells me that it was a major performance at some American Banker’s Association meeting that I performed with some university orchestra.

He said I sounded great during the performance, but to a father’s ears, all music played by me sounds great.