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« Reply #30 on: 12:38:46, 15-01-2008 » |
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This is really good. May be it can solve pianists problems with page turning. (Pianists have more pages to turn).
However, would it be sliding forward during the concert. That would create a spectacle.
Did anyone tried it? I never saw it.
I am playing Schumann Sonata for violin and piano. The violinist insists on repeating exposition, which means I have to turn three pages back. I find it difficult. I am playing from photocopy and the pages are trying to fall down on to the keyboard every time I do it.
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« Reply #31 on: 13:05:37, 15-01-2008 » |
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Once I played Xenakis Eonta and a piece of Ian Willcock on single sheets on the roof of a building Erm ... I'm tempted to ask why, but maybe I shouldn't? |
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« Reply #32 on: 13:22:48, 15-01-2008 » |
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Once I played Xenakis Eonta and a piece of Ian Willcock on single sheets on the roof of a building Erm ... I'm tempted to ask why, but maybe I shouldn't? Because that's where the group was asked to do the concert (not my decision)! |
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« Reply #33 on: 13:28:56, 15-01-2008 » |
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Any takers for my q about the page-turner in PETRUSHKA playing the triangle?  |
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« Reply #34 on: 13:37:31, 15-01-2008 » |
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I think it is a good idea to have page turner do something. It is silly to come on stage just to turn pages.
They can be not only to play triangle, but ocasional note on the piano.
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« Reply #35 on: 13:39:16, 15-01-2008 » |
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I agree, t-p! In the case I mentioned above, I think Stravinsky agreed too?
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« Reply #36 on: 13:52:10, 15-01-2008 » |
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I think it is a good idea to have page turner do something. It is silly to come on stage just to turn pages.
They can be not only to play triangle, but ocasional note on the piano.
Any one they like? |
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« Reply #37 on: 14:03:59, 15-01-2008 » |
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Any one they like?
It depends where the spine of the score hits as it falls...  I was at a Dylan Bates concert about a month ago, during which DB managed to knock-over the baritone-player's music-stand mid-piece, sending the music for the entire second set scattering into the audience... |
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« Reply #38 on: 14:36:01, 15-01-2008 » |
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May be there is a piece for Piano, wind instrument and page turner. If they want to make a concert less formal the piece could be a success. Also the audience should participate not only with their coughs.
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« Reply #39 on: 18:39:31, 15-01-2008 » |
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The violinist insists on repeating exposition, which means I have to turn three pages back. I find it difficult. I am playing from photocopy and the pages are trying to fall down on to the keyboard every time I do it.
Maybe this is too logical, but if you're playing from a photocopy, couldn't you just photocopy the exposition twice? Then you wouldn't need to turn back. I think it is a good idea to have page turner do something. It is silly to come on stage just to turn pages.
They can be not only to play triangle, but ocasional note on the piano.
I have very occasionally been turning for someone and thought: oh, I could have played that note for him/her if (s)he really wasn't planning to bother ...  |
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« Reply #40 on: 18:50:11, 15-01-2008 » |
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In Simon Holt's opera, 'Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?', there's the rather excruciating conceit (I thought) of having the person turning pages for the first part (an extended violin and piano piece) suddenly get up and start singing, turning out to be the main character. Perhaps that's going a bit far, though... |
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« Reply #41 on: 20:50:00, 15-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #42 on: 20:58:37, 15-01-2008 » |
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In Simon Holt's opera, 'Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?', there's the rather excruciating conceit (I thought) of having the person turning pages for the first part (an extended violin and piano piece) suddenly get up and start singing, turning out to be the main character. Perhaps that's going a bit far, though... I've seen it but I'd forgotten all about that. |
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« Reply #43 on: 21:19:41, 15-01-2008 » |
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Gee thanks, martle, you've spoilt it for me now... Isn't that kind of the trouble, though? If you've read the programme and know what Loré Lixenberg 's breasts sorry, Loré Lixenberg looks like, the surprise isn't really much of a surprise any more. (Or it's a different kind of surprise: you just think the page-turner forgot to turn up and isn't that a bit harsh to make the singer do it?) |
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« Reply #44 on: 21:41:12, 15-01-2008 » |
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If you've read the programme and know what Loré Lixenberg's breasts sorry, Loré Lixenberg looks like No, no and yes, in that order. |
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