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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 27, 2020 12:59:42 GMT -5
streamable.com/cgfkrNot posting the YouTube version as I don't want to give away my full name. I'm 8 or 9 in this video. 74k views as of today. This definitely got views because of the humor in it, not because of my stellar playing, lol. That's great! I played those pieces, too when I was learning. Also, until this post, I thought you were female!
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 28, 2020 13:54:56 GMT -5
Compositions that I hate: (You've probably heard all of these pieces even if you don't recognize the names/titles) 1. Fur Elise (Beethoven) 2. Ninth Symphony (4th Movement) aka "Ode to Joy" (Beethoven), sorry Phaedrus3. Fifth Symphony (Beethoven) 4. "The Happy Farmer" from Album for the Young (Schumann) 5. "Traumerei" from Scenes from Childhood (Schumann)
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Post by Phaedrus on Feb 28, 2020 15:37:31 GMT -5
I know there are lots of music that suffers from over exposure. Those you listed are all pieces that falls into that category.
Pachelbel's Canon, the Nutcracker, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik are some others.
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Post by ilikecorn on Feb 29, 2020 10:50:44 GMT -5
2 more of my favorites Arabesque no.1 - Debussy Liszt - La Campenella
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Post by vup on Feb 29, 2020 19:47:28 GMT -5
2 more of my favorites Arabesque no.1 - Debussy Liszt - La Campenella Rousseau is incredible. His performance of La Campanella is the best recording I can find if the piece.
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Post by ilikecorn on Feb 29, 2020 20:14:18 GMT -5
2 more of my favorites Arabesque no.1 - Debussy Liszt - La Campenella Rousseau is incredible. His performance of La Campanella is the best recording I can find if the piece. Yeah! Fantastic isn't it!?!
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Post by vup on Feb 29, 2020 20:19:28 GMT -5
Rousseau is incredible. His performance of La Campanella is the best recording I can find if the piece. Yeah! Fantastic isn't it!?! Really quite remarkable. La Campanella typically makes the short list for the title of most difficult piano pieces. I particularly love Rousseau’s crescendo into a forte on the trill that transitions into the coda. I have a copy of the piece, myself. I’d like to learn it at some point in my life, although at a much slower tempo, of course.
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Post by ilikecorn on Feb 29, 2020 20:23:52 GMT -5
Yeah! Fantastic isn't it!?! Really quite remarkable. La Campanella typically makes the short list for the title of most difficult piano pieces. I particularly love Rousseau’s crescendo into a forte on the trill that transitions into the coda. I have a copy of the piece, myself. I’d like to learn it at some point in my life, although at a much slower tempo, of course. That would be sweet! I only took piano lessons for about 2 or 3 years then switched to trombone, which I played for maybe 4 years. I quit playing instruments once I got to senior high...too many sports
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Post by vup on Feb 29, 2020 20:47:13 GMT -5
Really quite remarkable. La Campanella typically makes the short list for the title of most difficult piano pieces. I particularly love Rousseau’s crescendo into a forte on the trill that transitions into the coda. I have a copy of the piece, myself. I’d like to learn it at some point in my life, although at a much slower tempo, of course. That would be sweet! I only took piano lessons for about 2 or 3 years then switched to trombone, which I played for maybe 4 years. I quit playing instruments once I got to senior high...too many sports Ah. I didn’t play any sports in high school. I tried out for soccer, but didn’t make it. Definitely would’ve done volleyball if we had it. I was more of a band kid, as it turned out. Was in marching band all four years in high school and played trumpet. Actually, I’m enrolled in band at UNL for this semester.
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Post by Wolfgang on Mar 30, 2020 13:42:52 GMT -5
This guy is super funny. At first, I was creeped out by his staring-at-the-camera schtick but now, it's just hilarious.
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Post by hammer on Mar 30, 2020 13:54:57 GMT -5
I came across this video last night -- famed concert violinist Julia Fischer playing the old War Horse:
I was surprised to learn she was "dual threat".
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Post by Wolfgang on Mar 30, 2020 14:59:45 GMT -5
I came across this video last night -- famed concert violinist Julia Fischer playing the old War Horse: I was surprised to learn she was "dual threat". Mr. Bean at the podium? Also, she needs to work out to beef up those chopstick arms. Though I like this concerto, I don't particularly like the section from 2:00-2:23, the string of staccato notes. It's like someone is trying to tell a joke in the middle of an epic drama.
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Post by mikegarrison on Mar 30, 2020 16:07:14 GMT -5
From Wikipedia:
Fischer started playing the violin before her fourth birthday and received her first lesson from Helge Thelen. A few months later, she began taking piano lessons from her mother. Fischer once said, "My mother is a pianist and I wanted to play the piano as well, but since my elder brother also played the piano, I thought it would be nice to learn another instrument. I agreed to try out the violin and stayed with it." Fischer also supports her mother's belief that musical education of any kind should include piano fundamentals to extend one's repertoire and knowledge of harmony, theory, and style.
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Post by Phaedrus on Mar 30, 2020 17:01:31 GMT -5
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Post by Wolfgang on Mar 31, 2020 22:11:38 GMT -5
My wife and I got into a minor argument. I was humming Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 19 (K. 459) and she said, "That's a children's piano piece. I used to play it when I was first learning how to play."
I said, "That's impossible. It's a piano concerto. The pianist is accompanied by an orchestra."
She said, "That can't be. I know that tune so well."
I said, "Yeah, you know it so well because we've been humming it together for the past 20 years during our road trips with our kids and dogs."
"No, are you sure? They transcribed it for children. You do know they simplify major works and put them in children's piano lesson books, right?"
I said, "Yeah, I know they do that, but for this piece, I'm pretty sure they didn't. No one would ever convert this piece into a simple children's piano piece."
The piano part begins at the 2:00 minute mark.
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