My grandmother's asked me to sing a piece of Ravel at my grandfather's stone setting next Tuesday. I'm okay with this, but the piano accompaniment is an important part of the piece and I don't know anyone in our family who can play it, and the chances of there being a keyboard at the memorial service are slim anyway. If you, or someone you know, could make a good quality recording of the accompaniment, I would 1) pay you with money and 2) be so grateful. I know it'd mean a lot to my grandmother for me to sing this, and it means a lot to me that I have the accompaniment. It's the first of these two songs (sheet music). It's not terribly difficult.
Will this work? It is not as nuanced as I might like (being a singer but not much of a pianist), but I do have the ability to tweak it (thanks digital age). So if it's close but you need an extra beat here or there please say so and I can try to make it work.
Kay you are such a gem. I'm going to see my parents this afternoon: I want to get their advice on the singing and find out if either of them would play it (seems highly unlikely, but.) While I'm there I can also get to my laptop and actually listen to this recording...but just knowing it's there is already a weight off my mind.
Ah, sorry - Briticism maybe? By "next Tuesday", I mean the 3rd. Totally unexpectedly, my mum actually wants (!?) to accompany this, so long as she can hide the keyboard somewhere at the side of the hall. Now I'm just trying to figure out 1) family politics: my grandmother and aunt want me to sing it at the service, my uncle thinks it should be afterwards; 2) where tf I'm going to borrow an okay quality keyboard and amp.
Update: I sang the thing fine; no one was upset except the...burial ground...bouncer...guy...who didn't let me sound check and lied about the rabbi not wanting me to sing? Idek, man, why would you even lie about that. Also I hadn't considered that having sung, everyone and their mum would want to come up and speak to me. But that was okay.
