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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots @Juan Carlos Olite thank you! Much appreciated
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
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- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots @Vidhya Bashyam thanks a lot . To reveal the mystery of memorization - I’m not that smart but this isn’t the first time I play this sonata and I had to play it from memory back in time as this is…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
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- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots @Dominic Cheli hey Dominic, thanks a lot! I love playing on grand pianos, only I don’t have much opportunity to do so. My old upright piano is difficult to play, I call it my personal finger gym,…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- yesterday
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- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots So, another week and a half passed and here’s how the sonata sounds like at this point. I had (and still have) struggle with octaves in LH, and I’m trying to pull out singing upper voice,…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 2 days ago
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- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots @Michelle R thanks a lot
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 4 days ago
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- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots @Vidhya Bashyam thank you, much appreciated
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 8 days ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots Ok, so week one passed. What’s done: - full recovery of the piece text wise and memory wise (well, with some obvious memory slips but that will improve). I haven’t touched it over one year.…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 12 days ago
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- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Choose your Schubert Piece! I’m in with Sonata in A major, first movement only. Unfortunately, I have no time now to revisit the other two.
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 2 wk ago
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- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Pogorelich and Chopin Op. 55 #2 I’m about to start with Nocturne op. 15 no 2. I’m still listening different interpretations (Paderewski, Rubinstein etc.). If you have any suggestions, it would be incredibly appreciated.
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 2 mths ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Pogorelich and Chopin Op. 55 #2 Ivo Pogorelić (or Pogorelich) is well known for his controversial interpretations. In 1980 he entered Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland. Not only he performed in leather pants,…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 2 mths ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: Schubert's Unfinished Symphony Well, what I found in Music History books while researching his work is that it’s almost certain that he himself put it away as he started working on his big C major Symphony (which is considered to…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- General Discussion
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Re: If you could play any other instrument, what would it be and why? I would like to learn singing too! But for the instrument, it would be harpsichord. And organ - that’d really be an achievment…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 1 yr ago
- Discussion of the Week
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Re: Conquer the Stage: Overcoming Performance Anxiety with Aija Reke How to keep focus on the piano and not to outer environment, and how to deal with emerging hey-you-are-playing-for-people toughs which usually results in loss of focus and mistakes.
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 1 yr ago
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- Live Calendar
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Re: What song or piece of music best describes your personality? @Gail Starr me too, both pieces have certain dose of extravagance and decadence inside, I find that quite resonating with me.
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 1 yr ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: What song or piece of music best describes your personality? I’d say Montagues and Capuletti from Romeo and Juliette suite by Prokofiev and also the Waltz from Masquerade
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 1 yr ago
- 5
- Discussion of the Week
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business Isac Albeniz - Asturias will be on my plate. I still need to polish dynamics, get more secure in the text (and memorize it fully) as it’s difficult for me to play contratempo while looking at the…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 1 yr ago
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- Unfinished Business Challenge!
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Re: When is your favorite time of day to practice? I practice whenever I have time, as it’s difficult to align regular work and music school. So, I usually set goals even for small chunks of practice (maybe getting over the difficulties even in…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 2 yrs ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: A Guide to Hanon's Exercises (how to make the most of them!) I’m currently working on first 20 exercises. I’m particularly interested in how to approach the tempo increase. So far, when I learned first 5, i gradually increased the tempo to 90.…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 2 yrs ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: WEEK 2: Bach in March Practice Updates Ok so here’s my progress on Fugue in c minor from WTC 1. A big step forward for resolution of my playing-in-front-of-others fright (even if I just record it alone at home).…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 3 yrs ago
- 2
- Bach in March
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates I decided to work on Prelude and Fugue in c minor from WTC 1 (wohoo, my first fugue ever, had to work hard to earn it after 30 years of break regarding my friendship with the piano!).…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 3 yrs ago
- 1
- Bach in March
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Re: Denise's Practice Diary @Denise thanks a lot, I found the book - I will start reading it immediately! I wish you a smooth and pleasant musical journey as well!
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 3 yrs ago
- 1
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Denise's Practice Diary Hi Denise! Thank you for this post. I returned to piano after 30 years of break, and after a full year of recovering, I managed to enter State high music school (grades 7-10) at the age of 44.…
- Aleksandra Bogomaz
- Aleksandra_Bogomaz
- 3 yrs ago
- 3
- Your Practice Diary
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