A 25 minute example of Dorothy's Dining Ambience Piano Stylings

Dorothy’s Piano Stylings for Dining Ambiance

This piano style Dorothy used for all our gigs at restaurants, or in retirement residence dining rooms during meals, was, in my opinion, quite unique. I would never play the way she did with non-stop medleys for 30 minutes or more but she had decades of experience at it so who was I to argue, especially since she got applause after these extended medley sets?  She worked these more as musical stream-of-consciousness sessions because no two were exactly alike. She would make lists of songs only to jog her memory for songs but she had the songs themselves memorized. If she lost track, she’d jump to another song. It was quite amazing to witness.

Here’s an example, for 25 minutes. You can play this during your own happy hour or dinner time. The photo below is taken from the video but obviously the video pick up had stopped working by this point on my old Canon ZR40. Still, you can see Dorothy's gold jacket. She's doing her own percussion background on the Casio Privia PX555R with weighted keys and thus heavy enough for me to transport and set up but worth it. The Korg I bought in 2013 stopped working correctly, shocking me, since I thought Korg was the best but it turned out Casio was. Both that Casio and Dorothy were true "work horses".  All I had to do was set up the contact with the activity director, set up the piano and set up Dorothy and she could do her "magic"... truly a piano "magician" who could hypnotize a room with her musical work.

MP3 hotlink

Other audio files for download from this page, as well as the MP3

Background piano playing set for a crowd... that is not overwhelming... and lets people talk easily. Some percussion but not all. Continuous stream of familiar tunes from the mid 20th C.
plays as a continuous medley for 20 minutes with a non-stop percussion pattern in the background.

Memory (from Cats, the Broadway play)
Sound of Music, My Favorite Things,
Main theme, Sound of Music, the hills are alive
Embraceable you.
Gershwin songs...
I’ve Got Rhythm
Our Love is Here to Stay
...
I’ve Got Rhythm.
I could have danced all night.
On the street where you live
Besame Mucho
...
More
I've Got You Under my Skin (she's thinking Sinatra famous songs and shouts out Sinatra!)
Part of me... Night and Day
Strangers in the Night