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Re: Announcing the Schubert Challenge – Learn a Piece this month!
@Bryan Sable I know you'll do great!
Gail Ravin Starr
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Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
@Carlos Maybe you'd like to join the Schubert challenge that started on Monday? A bunch of us are doing some very short pieces.
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
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Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
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Re: Announcing the Schubert Challenge – Learn a Piece this month!
@Bryan Sable No matter what I want to hear what you decide to play! Maybe something without a lot of flats or sharps, LOL?
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
2 wk ago
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Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Week 1: Choose your Schubert Piece!
@Paul Miller Always try, Paul! Can't wait to hear you no matter what.
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
2 wk ago
Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Choose your Schubert Piece!
@Sam Smith I KNOW you'll finish this time, Sam! Maybe play it at Utako's next gathering. I'm so sorry that I missed last week. An unexpected meeting ruined my schedule,…
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
2 wk ago
Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Choose your Schubert Piece!
@Roy James-Pike Thank you so much, Roy! This answers my question.
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
2 wk ago
Schubert Challenge
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Re: Announcing the Schubert Challenge – Learn a Piece this month!
@Kyle Johnson Perfect choice!
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
2 wk ago
Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Announcing the Schubert Challenge – Learn a Piece this month!
@Andrea LeVan Hi Andrea! Check in with Juan Carlos because he's doing the same piece and he is an extremely wise, brilliantly educated, supremely musical pianist. And the kindest guy in the galaxy.
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
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Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Piano Extravaganza from the Colburn School!
What a delightful evening, a true Extravaganza. I never knew that my fav Brahms Quintet was originally for 2 pianos...And you guys were so brave to play back-to-back!
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
2 wk ago
Live Calendar
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Re: Announcing the Schubert Challenge – Learn a Piece this month!
@Juan Carlos Olite I can’t wait to hear you!
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
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Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: End-of-Summer Showcase
I’d love to play and I’ll select a piece soon.
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
2 wk ago
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Community Concerts!
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Re: Announcing the Schubert Challenge – Learn a Piece this month!
Will start Moment Musical D780 #6 this weekend.
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Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Announcing the Schubert Challenge – Learn a Piece this month!
@Michelle R Chopsticks DOES count!
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
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Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
Welcome to the tonebase community, Carlos! You will be among lots of us who were active with piano up until university...and then dropped out of sight until our careers stabilized and our kids got…
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
3 wk ago
Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
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Re: Announcing the Schubert Challenge – Learn a Piece this month!
@Bryan Sable Hi Bryan, so great to see you again here! Can't wait to hear your Schubert.
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
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Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage
I need to watch Ben’s video! I’m on my way to a chamber music weekend where I’ll be doing the Trout. Dominic gave me some handy pointers on the piece yesterday!
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Gail_Starr
3 wk ago
Your Practice Diary
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage
@Marc M
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3 wk ago
Your Practice Diary
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage
@Marc M And I didn't even KNOW what a chromatic mediant was until Dominic's Schubert live stream yesterday... you're way advanced, Marc!
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3 wk ago
Your Practice Diary
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage
@Marc M fabulous job! The leaps (and everything else) sound great. You must have worked super hard on this. Thank you for sharing
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Your Practice Diary
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Re: Unlocking Schubert’s Style with Dominic Cheli
@Alexander Weymann I wish I could have been there!
Gail Ravin Starr
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Gail_Starr
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Live Calendar
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Re: Unlocking Schubert’s Style with Dominic Cheli
@Alexander Weymann I can't believe it, but you just posed the EXACT same question I had!
Gail Ravin Starr
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Re: Dynamics and their deeper meaning
How can we best balance our dynamics with our fellow musicians when we are playing chamber music? I'm always worried (and my friends told me last week!) that the piano can overpower them even when I…
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1 mth ago
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Re: Sounds of Summer: June Recital!
@Michelle R I'm SO happy that it's almost all better!
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Community Concerts!
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Re: Sounds of Summer: June Recital!
@GMG2021 Can’t wait to hear you, dear Utako!
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Gail_Starr
1 mth ago
Community Concerts!
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Re: Sounds of Summer: June Recital!
@Derek McConville Can’t wait to hear you!
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1 mth ago
Community Concerts!
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Currently working on (as of June 20, 2025):
Schubert: Moment Musical #6, D 780 (hope to learn the whole set)
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