Just play chopsticks for 5 pages..

haha nice! i liked the george bush joke!

lol #19

or get smashed beforehand...maybe you'll play amazingly! Peter Griffin-style

wait till the recital, don't show up, and when she asks, tell her you forgot to tell her u can't make it! :)

A recital for a music school in front of 300 people is small OP. And five pages of grand staff music is essentially 2 1/2 pages. Try 4 pages of single staff music at a publicly presented Canadian Premier of a famous composer's piece in a sold out concert hall seating 1000+. Please OP, grow a pair and play the damn concert. If you mess up then so be it. Music is a human creation and therefore cannot be perfect all the time.

Stereotypes: eef u Asiiian yoo cain doo eet! No pyobwem! Eet easy!! (yes, spelling is on purpose) (no offense to Asians)

Op, y dont u say no?

Do you even play piano? Or music in general? You don't cram for a recital.

Well, you can. I mean, from experience, if this person is as good as their teacher seems to think, it's not that hard to learn 5 pages. If you don't have to memorize, it's a piece of cake. Hell, I learned a 200 page musical in a week and a half and I'm only slightly above mediocre. Memorizing.. well, look for patterns. 5 pages, even if it's Bach or Rachmaninoff are not that bad.

Memorizing the notes is different than memorizing the muscle memory, of course. That takes time even with the music. But it certainly can be done! :)

you CAN'T cram for a recital

No he shouldn't. It's as #6 said, he obviously has the talent. I learned a four page piece on the piano in a weekend. This is totally doable.