GREENSBORO, NC — A local mother and father joined the crowd gathered for another round of musical recital performances on Saturday, as their son patiently awaited his turn to butcher "Für Elise."

Young Braden Jennings, a first-grader who has been taking piano lessons for the last year, stood nervously by as the students ruthlessly desecrated other classical pieces ahead of him, confident that his butchering of one of Beethoven's most popular compositions would wow the audience.

"Wait till they see what I've done with the piece," Jennings was heard whispering to himself as another student defiled Debussy's "Claire de Lune." "I don't think anyone has ever heard ‘Für Elise' in the way I'm going to play it. My parents are going to be so proud."

Braden's father, Dave, said he was cautiously

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