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Re: Week 1 Assignment @Eloise Kim Thank you for the feedback and encouragement, Eloise.
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- Michelle_Russell
- 17 hrs ago
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Week 1 Assignment @Eloise Kim Here is another video, this time of the entire section: m 17-24. I'm really struggling with measures 21 & 22 but think I'm starting to get the hang of it.…
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 22 hrs ago
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Week 1 Assignment @Eloise Kim Oh, Eloise, thank you! I just tried this and it was super helpful. I'll try to find time to record again this evening after I finish my day. Thanks again!
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 days ago
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Week 1 Assignment @Eloise Kim I'm going to try to record this section again later today, sans pedal. I am having much difficulty knowing what (and then how) to do and then doing the legato in measures 21 and 22 with…
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 days ago
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage @Marc M This is lovely. I appreciate how detailed your notes are in the score. It helped me follow along in both an artistic and intellectual way. Well done!
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 4 days ago
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- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Week 1 Assignment @Eloise Kim thank you for the feedback and the observation. I’m just coming back from a moderately serious LH 5th finger injury, so I’m probably subconsciously “holding” rather than…
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 6 days ago
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Week 1 Assignment @Eloise Kim Thanks so much! I've just begun this piece, and started working on this section only today so it is new to me - however it is the section on which I had the most questions regarding…
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 6 days ago
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Week 1 Assignment I've chosen to use an excerpt from Tchaikovsky's op 39 no 7 ("The Doll's Funeral"), measures 17-24. Thanks!
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 7 days ago
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Sounds of Summer: June Recital! @Andrea LeVan Looking forward to hearing it! Also in that collection is a piece by Nicole diPaolo, who is my son's composition teacher.
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- Michelle_Russell
- 11 days ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: Sounds of Summer: June Recital! @Gail Starr me too!!!
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- Michelle_Russell
- 11 days ago
- Community Concerts!
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Re: Sounds of Summer: June Recital! Thanks @Gail . It’s about 85% in regular life and about 95% in piano life. Partially torn ligaments just take awhile to heal, but I’m finally able to play carefully selected 2-hand repertoire. Yay!
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 12 days ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: Sounds of Summer: June Recital! Confirming that I will play the Tchaikovsky op39 no. 7, “Sick Doll.” Thanks!
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 wk ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: Week 2 Assignment @Marc M This is wonderful! I thoroughly enjoyed listening, and as always appreciated your commentary, too.
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 wk ago
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- TWI: Shaping Individual Interpretation with Piotr!
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Re: Week 2 Assignment @Piotr Kozłowski Thanks so much for offering this TWI. I learned much, though I didn't post after the beginning. I wasn't able to do as much as I'd hoped, but have been following along.…
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 wk ago
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- TWI: Shaping Individual Interpretation with Piotr!
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Re: Sounds of Summer: June Recital! I'd like to play live. I'll play either a RH only piece, "Chaconne in E Minor" by Melody Bober, or the Tchaikovsky op 39 no 7, "Sick Doll." Both are short.…
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 4 wk ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: Week 1 Assignment! My chosen piece is "Menuetto," composed by Ignace Pleyel (born in 1757 as Ignaz, but changed the spelling when he moved to France). It is B817, and was published in 1796 or 1797,…
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 4 wk ago
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- TWI: Shaping Individual Interpretation with Piotr!
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Juan Carlos Olite Beautiful, charming, delicate playing. You play with such ease. Thank you for this gift today.
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 4 wk ago
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- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Week 1 Assignment! @Piotr Kozłowski Thank you Piotr. I think I'll work on the Pleyel. It seems easier on the left hand (the Duvernoy had a lot of Alberti Bass type figurations in the left hand).…
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
- TWI: Shaping Individual Interpretation with Piotr!
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Re: Week 1 Assignment! I'm excited to join this TWI. I still consider myself a beginner, though perhaps late elementary would be most accurate. I injured the fifth finger on my left hand a couple of months ago (partially…
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
- TWI: Shaping Individual Interpretation with Piotr!
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Re: Thurmond's Compositions @Vidhya Bashyam Thanks so much, Vidhya!
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
- Composer's Corner
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Re: Thurmond's Compositions @Gail Starr @Andrea Buckland @Derek McConville Thank you! This piece with some adjustments is being entered in a scholarship competition next month.
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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- Composer's Corner
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist Working with an injury to the fifth finger, one can come up with some slightly creative fingering which still works (for some pieces). Here is the Mozart K-3, "Allegro" which I have been working on.…
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist @Gail Starr Thanks, Gail.
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist OK - first work on second species counterpoint. I am working with super short (two note) fragments from Peter Schubert's book (chapter 4). I made one error on the second exercise,…
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 mths ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Thurmond's Compositions One of Thurmond's recent compositions won first place in his age group in our state music teacher association's "Young Composer's Project," and he has been invited to perform at the state conference…
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 mths ago
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- Composer's Corner
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