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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots @cdales oh, yes, that too, LOL! I guess it just happens automatically during non-stop playing through and indulging in sound spontaneously, intuitively.…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 13 hrs ago
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- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots Impromptu As moll op. 90 #4 . It has been a fun week learning the text and it seems going quite well. But I see a lot of risks in my practice already. With Schubert generally I have one major problem.…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 20 hrs ago
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- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Choose your Schubert Piece! I’m in with Impromptu in A-flat major, D 899 op. 90, #4. Happy to see it here listed as an intermediate level piece. That’s encouraging, because I always have wanted to learn it,…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 4 days ago
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- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Announcing the Schubert Challenge – Learn a Piece this month! I’m signing up with Impromptu in A-flat major, D 899 op. 90, #4. Always wanted to learn it!
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 2 wk ago
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Announcing the Schubert Challenge – Learn a Piece this month! @Alexander Weymann one of my favorite!
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 2 wk ago
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Sounds of Summer: June Recital! https://youtu.be/N9QUCEtYnjo?si=Ob4INKoA6_KCN4LZ It is the Rondeau he composed in 1943. I really wanted to learn this piece for its lightness of spirit and joy.…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 3 wk ago
- Community Concerts!
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Re: Sounds of Summer: June Recital! Hi! I’d like to participate with a piece by Olivier Messiaen, most likely a short one, if I get it anywhere near performance level. It will be a recording due to time zone difference.
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
- Community Concerts!
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Re: "Share the music you LOVE!" Recital @Dominic Cheli Hi! Hope it’s not late. https://youtu.be/olIky-TxbJg?si=2cubWBO636EGKL_x
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 4 mths ago
- Community Concerts!
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Re: "Share the music you LOVE!" Recital @Dominic Cheli I will. I might run late though. I did not manage to record during the week and today is a little too busy. Hope to make it still.
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 4 mths ago
- Community Concerts!
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Re: "Share the music you LOVE!" Recital I have been working on Messiaen’s "Je dors, mais mon coeur veille" from Vingt Regards. I’m completely in love with this piece and would like to share it.…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 5 mths ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: New Year's Resolutions 2025 @Gail Starr indeed
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 5 mths ago
- General Discussion
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Re: New Year's Resolutions 2025 Happy New Year to all! In 2025 I would very much like to learn a new sonata. Composer unclear yet, but very likely (his) name starts with a B. With options among them, my real dilemma is:…
- Astrida
- Astrida_Gobina
- 5 mths ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! @Gail Starr Yes! I actually went because of Vikingur. I heard him live in Essen with Goldberg variations and the experience made me his devout follower.…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 7 mths ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! Vikingur Ólafsson and Yuja Wang duo in Paris. The concert was amazing. They should have a great future as a duet.
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 7 mths ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: Beethoven's Birthday Challenge! What great idea! I will learn variations nos. 24, 31 and (try) 32 of op. 120.
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 8 mths ago
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece! As I need to prepare a short program with Messiaen’s music for organ to be performed in May, I will use this opportunity to stay in his world of sound and attempt to learn his prelude for piano…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 yr ago
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- A Fresh Start!
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Re: Springtime Recital Hi! If it’s still not too late, I submit Olivier Messiaen’s “Morceau de lecture à vue”. This is my first piece by Messiaen, still work in progress and dynamic balance and phrasing could be better,…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 yr ago
- Community Concerts!
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Re: Group 2 @Dr. Leann Osterkamp He Thank you! And yes, it would be very useful to have TWI-s on articulation, phrasing and fingering. I would clearly benefit.
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 yr ago
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- Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
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Re: Group 2 @Dr. Leann Osterkamp He Thank you very much! A lot of patience expected in the future. Regarding fingering, I’m using Perahia’ s edition. Will check now,…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 yr ago
- Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
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Re: Group 2 @Dr. Leann Osterkamp He Thank you very much! Adding a recording. Thanks to the new DMS consciousness :) I’m in a much better place now than I was a week before, however,…
- Astrida
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 yr ago
- Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
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Re: Group 2 Hi! Thank you very much for the opportunity to learn with you all, and Leann! I’m learning the Rondo from Beethoven’s Pathétique now and am struggling quite a bit with dynamics.…
- Astrida
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 yr ago
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- Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
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Re: How to find a good piano teacher? Finding a good teacher is important. You start the relationship for learning, to get better, to keep up the practice, but in the process you understand that she/he is actually also the main person…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 yr ago
- Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Bach WTC fingerings In Bach editions, sometimes, I find the strange fingering a there in order to force a position change for a new phrase or make sure legato is not played.…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 yr ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: What is the most memorable moment in a music lesson you’ve ever had? I guess it is important not to give up on yourself and not measure own future by one moment’s mishap. It’s easier said than done though, especially when one is very young and really depends on the…
- Astrida
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 yr ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” Reinis Zarins from Latvia. I find his take on Kreisleriana both fascinating and novel. Here is a link to the recording:…
- Astrida
- Astrida_Gobina
- 2 yrs ago
- Discussion of the Week
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