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Post by keff on Apr 20, 2024 10:06:02 GMT
Broadcast on Radio 3 yesterday whilst driving...it is Organ day today, apparently.
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Post by Zi on Apr 20, 2024 10:58:40 GMT
For some reason that's amused me... I'm easily amused...
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Post by keff on Apr 20, 2024 11:37:13 GMT
For some reason that's amused me... I'm easily amused... Smiling is good.
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Post by Zi on Apr 28, 2024 8:49:53 GMT
Yes. Agreed... I once apologised to my music teacher for being so childish and she said I wasn't to apologise because she aspired to being childish! She too was fed up with being adult... I was never very good at adult and now there's no one to expect it of me, I do childish extremely well! Anyway, one of the reasons I found it amusing is that 'organ' has so many ways of interpreting it...
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Post by keff on Apr 28, 2024 10:11:29 GMT
Anyway, one of the reasons I found it amusing is that 'organ' has so many ways of interpreting it... Absolutely. We had the piano group yesterday and it went rather well. I have been learning the secondo of the Dolly Suite Berceuse duet and it was the first time to rehearse with my duet partner. The first run through went better than expected and the second not so good. Looking at the score last night I realised that "unexpected" clashing of hands was cause by both players needing the same note. I don't know how to fix this problem so any suggestions would be gratefully received.
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Post by Zi on Apr 28, 2024 10:36:28 GMT
Mr Z says that you have to decide who gets the note and it's normally the lead player.
I'm going to ask a daft question. Are piano duets written so that they are performed on one piano? Are there pieces which are composed for two pianos?
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Post by keff on Apr 28, 2024 10:49:53 GMT
Mr Z says that you have to decide who gets the note and it's normally the lead player. I'm going to ask a daft question. Are piano duets written so that they are performed on one piano? Are there pieces which are composed for two pianos? Thanks for Mr.Z's suggestion. Not absolutely sure of the answer to duet question but my feeling would be that duets are for two players at one piano. There are pieces arranged for playing on two or even more separate pianos. Very common are piano concertos in which the orchestra's part is arranged for a separate piano.
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Post by pavane on Apr 30, 2024 13:02:19 GMT
I love organ music played in a cathedral - when I lived in Salisbury there were some amazing concerts at the cathedral (and even sometimes just the organist practising). The organ concerts were never very popular: there was a series of Messian concerts once that was so sparsely attended that they let us sit in the choir seats which was great, rather like being in Barchester Towers. It's one of the few things that seems virtually impossible to reproduce (as in, it mostly sounds awful on the radio etc).
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