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Conor’s Concert GILLIAN PERDUE Pictures by Michael Connor
THE O’BRIEN PRESS DUBLIN
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First published 2003 by The O’Brien Press Ltd, 20 Victoria Road, Dublin 6, Ireland. Tel: +353 1 4923333; Fax: +353 1 4922777 E-mail: books@obrien.ie Website: www.obrien.ie. ISBN: 0-86278-847-1
Copyright for text © Gillian Perdue Copyright for editing, illustrations, layout and design © The O’Brien Press Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilised in any way or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library 1 03
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Typesetting, layout, editing, design: The O’Brien Press Ltd Printing: Cox & Wyman Ltd
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Can YOU spot the panda hidden in the story?
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Conor loved music. He listened to the radio when he was in the car and he hummed or sang along.
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In the house, he always put CDs on the CD player. He listened to the music while he played or did his homework. 7
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And when there was no music playing, Conor made up
his own songs.
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Music made Conor’s hands happy and his feet frisky. It made his heart beat faster and it made him want to jump around. 9
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But what Conor really wanted was to play music all by himself.
His big sister Laura could play the piano. She was very, very good. 10
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She also had an electronic keyboard. When she was out, Conor played on her keyboard.
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One day, Mum said: ‘That’s very good, Conor. Would you like to learn piano too, like Laura?’
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‘I’d love to!’ said Conor. He was so happy! He was going to learn
to play music, real music.
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Conor began to go for piano lessons. His teacher was Mrs Smart, a nice, patient woman.
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Mrs Smart showed Conor the notes on the page and the notes on the piano.
Each key on the piano matched a note written on the page. ‘Cool!’ said Conor. 15
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