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Re: Halloween Recital!
I'd like to play something. It'll be either Scriabin Etude in C sharp minor Op. 2, No. 1 or Shostakovich Preludes Op. 34 Nos. 1 & 2. Or maybe all three! They are all short.
Harriet Kaplan
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2 mths ago
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Community Concerts!
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Re: 5 Lessons from Russian Piano School
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Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
2 mths ago
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Live Calendar
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Re: Who was your first music teacher and what valuable lesson did they teach you?
My first teacher was a young woman who used to come to our house to teach my older sisters. She had gone to Peabody (in Baltimore), and in my memory she was a pretty good pianist and was very…
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
3 mths ago
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Discussion of the Week
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Re: Piano teacher
@Mary Mathews All of this! I have some Suzuki teacher training in cello - it involves much more than simply teaching the pieces in the books. And it helps to know something about traditional teaching…
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
3 mths ago
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Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Piano teacher
It seems this teacher is incompetent. How did you find her? (by that I mean: how did you hear about her such that you decided to start lessons with her?)
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
3 mths ago
Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Melodies of Midsummer: July Concert!
If it's not too late, I'd like to play Debussy's Reflets dans l'eau
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
5 mths ago
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Community Concerts!
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Re: Group 3
@Andrea Buckland @Vidhya Bashyam @Gail Starr @Natalie Peh Thank you!
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
5 mths ago
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Improving your Lyricism (feat Chopin)
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Re: Group 3
@Gail Starr
Harriet Kaplan
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5 mths ago
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Improving your Lyricism (feat Chopin)
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Re: Group 3
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Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
5 mths ago
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Improving your Lyricism (feat Chopin)
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Re: Group 3
Here’s my effort (Etude Op 10 No 6, first page) https://youtu.be/jGWV-LB_g9c
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
5 mths ago
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Improving your Lyricism (feat Chopin)
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Re: Group 3
@Andrea Buckland you have set the bar very high for this exercise!!
Harriet Kaplan
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5 mths ago
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Improving your Lyricism (feat Chopin)
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Re: Group 3
@Tammy ooh, curious how you will sing that
Harriet Kaplan
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5 mths ago
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Improving your Lyricism (feat Chopin)
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Re: Group 3
I'll start! I'm Harriet, and I'm very interested in the "how to practice" part of this. This first assignment will be a good refresher of the solfegg I just spent two years relearning at community…
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
5 mths ago
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Improving your Lyricism (feat Chopin)
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Re: 88 years loving 88 keys with Peter Frankl
@Roger Ward those are such great questions.
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
8 mths ago
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Live Calendar
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Khaled - Did you have your performance yet? How did it go?
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
8 mths ago
General Discussion
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Gail Starr it really takes a lot of time to begin to master any of this stuff
Harriet Kaplan
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8 mths ago
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General Discussion
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Khaled I think the best way to practice is any way that gets you engaged with what you are doing as much as possible - so yes, mechanically playing through pieces without consciously paying…
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
8 mths ago
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Linda Gould what is most challenging to me is keeping my concentration going throughout each piece and then through the entire program. Weird little blips happen in unexpected places.…
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
8 mths ago
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General Discussion
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Tanya I need to try this.
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
8 mths ago
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Gail Starr always a good idea. Hard to stay in that mindset under pressure, though.
Harriet Kaplan
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8 mths ago
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General Discussion
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
I am in the same boat right now. I have a 45-minute recital coming up with five different pieces on it, and I am going back and forth between feeling confident and feeling scared to death!…
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
8 mths ago
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General Discussion
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Re: Group 1
@Antonella Di Giulio @Vidhya Bashyam is really the composer; the rest of us provided embellishments.
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
11 mths ago
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Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
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Re: Group 1
A waltz by our group (still in progress). Contributors so far: @Vidhya Bashyam @Andrea Buckland @Harriet Kaplan
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
11 mths ago
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Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
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Re: Group 1
I don’t know if my scribbling will be clear or if the files uploaded correctly.
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Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
1 yr ago
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TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Peter Golemme thanks - I’ve been working on this all year because I’m prepping for an audition. So yes, it’s memorized. There are about a million ways one could play the prelude,…
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
1 yr ago
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Your Practice Diary
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