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Re: Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
I decided to use the "challenge magic" work its full and plan to revisit all my Chopin pieces from the ‘mysterious past’. I have not been playing Chopin for years now and it will be a very welcome…
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 6 days ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
@Judy Kuan oh! I love the polonaise since I heard it the first time as a teenager. I even tried to learn some bars back then, just to have some bits for indulging ;…
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 6 days ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4 – Share Your Final Progress!
@Dominic Cheli I’m so sorry for the misunderstanding with the links to my recording! I had left the link to my old version in the chat, and had the new one in the thread,…
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 13 days ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 4 – Share Your Final Progress!
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- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 13 days ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 4 – Share Your Final Progress!
@Gloria thank you so much!
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 13 days ago
- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 4 – Share Your Final Progress!
@Vidhya Bashyam thank you!
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 13 days ago
- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 4 – Share Your Final Progress!
@Victoria Macdonald Thank you very much! The video feels strange indeed. I changed my camera settings, but unfortunately I don’t know how to mirror back already taken videos.
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 13 days ago
- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 4 – Share Your Final Progress!
Hi everyone! Here is my progress on Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut from Debussy’s Images Book II. This piece still needs a lot of work in every respect.…
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 2 wk ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 2 Goal – Enter the World of Your Piece !
@Alexander Weymann what an amazing background story! I’m keeping fingers crossed for you to succeed in learning this piece!
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 2 wk ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 3 Goal – Reflect on Your Journey So Far!
Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut The biggest surprise was how frequently Debussy relies on parallel motion, especially in octaves. Instead of conventional voice-leading,…
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- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 3 wk ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Debussy Challenge – Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
@Gloria I hope the link works: https://piano-community.tonebase.co/t/h7y1qcl/week-2-goal-enter-the-world-of-your-piece
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 2 Goal – Enter the World of Your Piece !
Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut, Images book II I used Messiaen’s harmonic analysis of this piece as the basis. The opening is static, spacious, and bell-like,…
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Debussy Challenge – Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
@Becky Yes, at the end of this challenge on September 3. We all can participate either by playing our pieces live or submitting a recording.
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Debussy Challenge – Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
@Alexander Weymann @Kyle Johnson How cool is that!!!! I just will have to record and submit my part for the recital, because of my time zone.
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Debussy Challenge – Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
@Alexander Weymann oh! That would be phantastic!
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Debussy Challenge – Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
I will learn “Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut” from Images book II.
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: The Debussy Challenge!
@Michelle R Amazing!
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Autumn Recital!
I would like to sign up. The piece will be by Olivier Messiaen, TBD.
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: The Debussy Challenge!
I’m signing up, but I’m still actively looking for a piece. I have never played Debussy before. Actually, I have tried a couple of times to learn something, but always felt some kind of revulsion,…
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: The Debussy Challenge!
@Michelle R There might be some, actually! Have a look at these: From Children’s Corner: 2. Jimbo’s Lullaby 5. The Little Shepherd Individual works: The Little Nigar Élégie
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: End-of-Summer Showcase
Hi everyone! Here is my recording of Schubert Impromptu No. 4 op.90. I missed the Schubert challenge deadlines, but his piece has been on my mind a lot during the past month and does well represent…
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
- 4
- Community Concerts!
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
I was traveling and missed both the submission deadline and the watch party. It was such a pleasure to listen to the uploaded recordings. Thanks everyone! Here is my result from this wonderful,…
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 mth ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 1 Assignment
Thank you so much for this intensive! It’s rather timely for me, because I had just become aware that I try to avoid music with trills. The reason for that was a feeling of unpredictability and some…
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 2 mths ago
- Improve your Trills with Leann Osterkamp!
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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.…
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 2 mths 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.…
- Church organist and amateur pianist in my free time. Otherwise a lawyer and sinologist now studying psychology.
- Astrida_Gobina
- 2 mths ago
- 4
- Schubert Challenge
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