Chaos at the Concert

I went to the strangest piano concert tonight.  It seems that no one knew how to play the music very well.  It always took more than 1 pianist to play any song.  When the concert started  4 people came out and started playing on 2 pianos.  It didn't make any sense to me.  It can't be that difficult!   At times it seemed they were trying to outplay each other; the first person would play and then another would repeat it thinking she could do it better, I guess.  It was always funny to me when all 4 started playing something different.  Why couldn't they just agree on playing the same song?  Instead, you had all this music going everywhere like we were supposed to keep up.  I don't know if they liked each other or not, but I thought it strange that each pair would go off the stage in different directions.  I also thought they were rather stuck up and a little snobbish not wanting to walk off together.

Something else I didn't get was why sometimes each pianist had their teacher come out and sit with them.  And their teachers looked so young!  Apparently no one knew the music well enough to know when to go to the next page because the teacher would always stand up and turn the page for them.  Of course all the pianists appreciated this.  They always nodded real big each time they turned the page.  Why not just learn the music better so you know when it is time to do that?
 
It got real tense on the last song.  All the pianists came out and sat down in chairs just daring someone to start playing.  Sure enough a couple of them got brave enough to go sit down at the piano and play, but not for long.  One got up from her chair and walked back and forth shaking her head in disgust at the bad playing.  Right in front of all of us!  She had someone hit a gong, like on the old gong show, and those women had to give up their seats and let someone else play.  But that didn't last long.  That woman nodded her head and the gong would ring out again!  So humiliating!  Others would go to the piano and start playing the piece.  You would think they would have practiced more before we showed up to see this chaos.  No one could seem to play the song right.  The gong kept going off and people kept changing places.  It was hard to keep score.  No one seemed to know what piano to play or where exactly to sit since they kept running around making someone get up so they could have a turn.
They should have decided who was going to play what and where before the concert began!  Good grief!  On and on this went.  16 different players attempted to play this one piece.  I couldn't prononce the name of the piece they were trying to play, " LeCarnaval Des Animaux," or something like that.  They couldn't play it any better than I could pronounce it.  The director should have just picked something easier for them instead of embarrasing all those women like that.  I was red faced myself.  They kept trying, poor things.  No one could play for long, everybody kept stopping while another would run over to the piano and try to keep the song going.  One woman nearly dropped her glasses trying to get to the piano so fast.  I don't know why she was so anxious, everybody in the audience knew she would have to stop, too.  No one could play that piece.  They even had 8 hands going at one time!  Isn't that like 4 people trying to drive the same car at the same time?  No wonder it didn't work!  They all had to stop, too, since they couldn't do much with the song either.
 
Well, it finally ended and all the women looked happy and smiling.  I am sure they were glad that was over!  I was!  I never saw such a concert like this.  I sure hope next time they practice more so they can play it themselves without all that chaos.  Oh well, I had a free ticket and the pianists did look nice.  Not much else to say about it though.