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Re: What are the Two Week Intensives? I'm interested.
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! March 31, Simone Dinnerstein playing the Goldberg Variations at Columbia University.
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Re: Tonebase Community Concert: April 2022 @Carole Kincaid yes, I did the same. I didn’t see a Zoom link anywhere. I got an “update” email the next day that had the link, but of course it was over by then!
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Tonebase Community Concert: April 2022 Did anyone else have trouble accessing this concert? The link in the email took me to the concert page but it said it had not started yet; the link to the discussion on the main page went nowhere.…
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Re: Mastering Large-scale work: Tips and advice! I wish I could have participated in the event live, but I was at my piano lesson this morning! This was possibly the most interesting one I've listened to at Tonebase thus far and brought up…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What are your difficult passages? Really too many to list, but what has bugged me for the past few years: Chopin Ballade No. 1, especially the piu animato section in the middle (mm 138-179) and the coda.…
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- "Improve your Technique!" Month
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Re: Mastering Large-scale work: Tips and advice! @Tammy FWIW, what I do when my interest flags (and I've worked on some pieces for YEARS, on and off) is try to pretend I've never played the piece before - basically imagine I'm starting from…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Mastering Large-scale work: Tips and advice! Since I started this - Goldberg Variations. Also on my wish list - Carnaval (don’t know if I’ll ever get to that one).
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community! @Dominic Cheli thanks! I've appreciated all your work in building up the interactive content here. I watched your performance of the Goldbergs, and it was impressive.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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- Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
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Re: What is a Fugue? Very good lecture on fugues! I spent 14 years in music school and years in piano lessons and was never taught some of this.
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 2: Bach in March Practice Updates @Gail Starr Simone looks rather like Beatrice Rana in this pic ... :)
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- Bach in March
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Re: WEEK 2: Bach in March Practice Updates First, thank you everyone for the nice comments on the video I posted last week. Second, this month is from he** for me because I am the administrator for an international string competition,…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates @Brother Will Green thank you!
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates @Hazel thank you. The prelude is a little gem, and not difficult. Fugue is another matter …
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- 2 yrs ago
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- Bach in March
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates @Peter Golemme thank you!
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates @Peter Golemme when I was working on this fugue a few months ago, I also tried to add the nachtschlag (what you're calling the afterbeat). I started the trills on the note because they are…
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates @Vidhya Bashyam thank you!
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- Bach in March
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates This is a video I made in January for my teacher (he said "just hands," so that's what I did) of the Prelude and Fugue in E major from WTC Book I. I started working on this last fall and have kept…
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Re: Community Hangout: Bach Vibes Another thing I just thought to mention: between 2014 and 2020, I performed all six Bach solo cello suites (on the cello!) on a local amateur concert series.…
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- Bach in March
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Re: Welcome to Bach in March! I wish I could participate in this, but these next few weeks are going to be crazy for me. Maybe I can play something short.
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- Bach in March
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Re: Community Hangout: Bach Vibes My husband had a conference in Cologne in May 2016, and I met him there after he was done and we traveled around Germany for a week. My one request was to visit Leipzig,…
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- Bach in March
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Re: Musical Mixer: What's going on between you and your piano, today? @Hilda Huang thank you for starting this discussion. I feel sorely in need of a reality check of some kind with my piano playing. As I mentioned in other threads elsewhere,…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What music are you working on? @Peter Golemme Those bass notes are usually equivalent to a continuo bass line. I'm also a cellist, so I'm well aware of there being a distinctive bass line that is often a melody in itself.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What music are you working on? @Peter Golemme I'm on this type of project, too. I'd learned a handful of Preludes and Fugues from both books of WTC in the past, but about a year ago I decided to start at the beginning.…
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Re: READ ME FIRST: INFO regarding this unique challenge! Early in 2020, my teacher and I were talking about what I could work on next, and he suggested "some" of the Goldberg variations. I first dismissed it as an exercise in frustration,…
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- 2 yrs ago
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- LONGTERM ONGOING - Bach's Goldberg Variations
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