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Re: Week 2 Goal – Enter the World of Your Piece !
I’m late to the week 2 update but for the opening of Children’s Corner I have an image of a young (talented!) child sitting at the piano in a Paris home as they enthusiastically display their newly…
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Debussy Challenge – Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
Hi everyone - I will pick Dr Gradus ad Parnassum from Children's Corner Suite! This is a piece I love to listen to and hoping to play in a more controlled than when I first attempted it 🤞
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Alexander Weymann thanks for sharing this thoughtful and soulful performance and my condolences on your recent loss.
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Sindre Skarelven bravo on a truly pro performance 👏
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Juan Carlos Olite wonderful choice for this challenge and bravo on the performance - the best of both composers on display :)
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@CK Lau bravo this sounds great!
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Vidhya Bashyam well done, this sounds great. I was not familiar with this and it sounds haunting - thanks for sharing it!
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Dora Burak that sounded very nice!
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Hazel bravo - i can relate to this one, that sounded really nice! I think this is a piece you can always return to :)
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Aleksandra Bogomaz bravo this sounded wonderful, very powerful piece musically!
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Gail Ravin Starr bravo on this!! The performance was pristine and the visuals are beyond my tech capabilities lol!
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Dagmar bravo - such elegant playing :)
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Jennifer Mehta bravo - this sounded great with wonderful rhythm!
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Michelle R well done! That sounded v neat!
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Thurmond R this sounds wonderful - a new piece for me!
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
Hi everyone, please see my submission for the Tonebase Schubert challenge below. I didn't get to memorise it this time unfortunately and a few parts to tidy up but will have to return to this at a…
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 10
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Expression over Perfection
@Dominic Cheli Thanks for the tips on this!
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Expression over Perfection
@Michelle R that sounds really lovely!
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Expression over Perfection
Hi everyone, just posting a very short excerpt this week. I think these 8/9 bars represent a turning point in the piece with the turmoil in the preceding section giving way to a more generally more…
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 9
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots
Hi everyone, thanks for the very kind feedback from last week :) This is the wk 2 update which includes a bit more of the piece (up to bar 40). Trouble spots for me are maintaining balance between…
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 7
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Choose your Schubert Piece!
Hi everyone- here is my extract from wk 1 play through of the opening bars. Derek
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 9
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Choose your Schubert Piece!
Hi everyone, for this challenge I would like to select Impromptu in G-flat Major, Op. 90 No. 3 (D.899) I have previously learned this piece but it was a number of years ago,…
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 3
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Sounds of Summer: June Recital!
Hi everyone, I would like to play 3 of Prokofiev's Visions Fugitives which are quite short! Hopefully I can play them live. Derek
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- Community Concerts!
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Re: Springtime Recital!
@Scott Prevost bravo again for this wonderful performance - it was a truly pro level rendition at the community concert!
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- Community Concerts!
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Re: Thurmond's Compositions
@Michelle R Bravo to Thurmond - this is a lovely piece!
- Derek_McConville
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- Composer's Corner
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