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We have an audibility scale for working with string players. Violin - mini-stick, una corda. Viola - lid closed, una corda. Cello - move piano to next room, lid closed, una corda. Visiting cello maestro - "The pianist is TOO LOUD"
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We have an audibility scale for working with string players. Violin - mini-stick, una corda. Viola - lid closed, una corda. Cello - move piano to next room, lid closed, una corda. Visiting cello maestro - "The pianist is TOO LOUD"
Do you ever get asked if you can play 'Far, Far Away'? How about Takemitsu's For Away ( surely that must have been a language or typing thing on his part)? |
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« Reply #1082 on: 00:04:51, 05-05-2007 » |
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« Reply #1083 on: 00:38:16, 05-05-2007 » |
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How can one be content always.
1. One should be content if playing with a student who doesn't know 2/4 from 4/4 or 3/4.
2. One should stay content if a student you have to play with (or your own student) doesn't understand dotted quarter (crotchet) concept and can not comprehend it.
3. One should stay content if people criticize you or are not supportive of you.
4.One should be content if one could not achieve anything in life.
5. One should be content if people don't appreciate the effort you are making
Perhaps buddhism T-P? the elimination of all forms of desire. If you can live up to those rules, you will either be a saint, or a fossil. |
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 He belongs to this room for sure. Thank you Kitty. I will work on bad aspects of myself until I will become a fossil, I suppose. Bryn. Computer doesnot pick up all my mistakes. Unfortunately I can spell some words correctly and full the computer. I am good at this sort of thing and at fooling (fulling) myself. I cannot fool anybody else though. |
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i love boddhisatva's. i have one right in front of me on my piano. in other news:  yay me! claps hands exitedly |
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  Congratulations tonybob. Well done!!!!. I am still on 29. I have to check if I am on 29th level. I am happy today. I little girl of 10 just left. We played lovely pieces: March by Mendelsohn and his song without words. She is doing her grade 3 exam. She is so nice and so cute. People here complain that more girls play violin than boys. In my experience it is a healthy balance. I have boys to accompany as well as girls. This time it was a lovely girl with her mother. |
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« Reply #1087 on: 13:09:34, 05-05-2007 » |
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I will work on bad aspects of myself until I will become a fossil, I suppose.
Please don't become a fossil T-P. That would mean taking a professorship in some little-known conservatoire and wearing tweeds and pearls a lot. You're so much more fun like you are. And IMO "working on" the aspects of yourself that you think are bad is always less productive than just trying to be a nice person (and I don't think that is a problem for you). |
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Thank you Kittybriton. I think you are making two good points. To work in corporate environment (music school, University etc) makes one academic and dry. In any case I have no chance for any of that. I was sad for a while, but I can see that this is for the best. I do what I want, wear what I want and I am my own boss and master.
There are minuses to that of course, but there are more pluses.
Also I did notice that working on any aspect of my personality is a waist of effort. Do they say about Camille Saint-Saëns that he was born 30 years old. He was born perfect and did not develop during his life (because he was born perfect). May be we all born perfect in some sense.
Thank you Kittybritton. Good luck to you and thank you for writing.
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Morning All, it's Sunday, it's not rainng (as they predicted it would) and I don't have to go to work tomorrow! Tha's good enough for me!  |
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Mary, that's a beautiful bit of nostalgia, not to mention a most interesting historical document. So much facial expression in Pear's face. Britten's piano playing was always superb, wasn't it. YouTube is a marvellous development, in the right hands.
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Britten's piano playing was always superb, wasn't it. YouTube is a marvellous development, in the right hands.
The pianissimos are so pianissimo they are hard to hear on my computer (Pears always said that Britten could play more softly than anyone). There are three more songs. In Mein Britten makes a very noticeable mistake, but there is more to superb piano playing than simply getting the notes right! He must have been furious with himself. |
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« Reply #1094 on: 11:05:22, 06-05-2007 » |
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Thank you Mary Chambers for the youtube site.
It is good lesson for accompanist how sensitive one must be when accompanying (especially singer).
I enjoyed it very much. I get so absessed with things that upset me.
This performance put me on the right way.
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