A Halloween Recital!
Let's celebrate the spooky Halloween Holiday with a Recital!
Share the music that you have been working on!
PROGRAM:
Sandhya (Sandy) Asirvatham Burrill Phillips: Toccata
Priya Viseskul Lysenko: "By a Cradle" Op.33
Alexander Weymann Abel Decaux: Minuit passe (Clair de Lune No.1)
Debussy: ...Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest (No. VII from the first book of "Préludes")
Angela Fogg Montague: The Headless Horseman
Gail Starr Bolcom: "Ghost Rag"
springgrass Liebermann: Nocturne No.4
Vidhya Bashyam Schubert/Liszt: Der Doppelgänger
Derek Liszt: Canzone from the Years of Pilgrimage
Juan Carlos Olite Schubert: Impromptu in A-flat major
General information and Guidelines below!
Reply to this topic with your name and repertoire selection if you would like to perform! If you don't know what you want to play yet, you can always just let us know your intent!
ABOUT TONEBASE COMMUNITY CONCERTS:
These events are NOT live-streamed OR recorded, but are private zoom meetings where tonebase members can share their hard work and perform for each other!
These concerts can be played LIVE, or if you can't attend, you can submit a recording!
This is a GENEROUS and SUPPORTIVE space.
Performing is one of the best ways to push yourself, and really evaluate the work/progress you have made!
Repertoire is open to any piece!
Memorization is NOT required.
You can play select movements, or even sections of pieces! No need to perform a complete work!
Playing the piano is fun, but sharing your music with others is one of life's great joys. Join in on the fun and cheer each other on!
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Because we use zoom for these concerts, it is important to have the best audio and visual settings available!
Check out these videos depending on the device you are using!
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Hi everyone,
Hopefully I'm not too late but I'd like to submit a short piece by Liszt for the Halloween Concert tomorrow (its 3'30 mins in duration) - Canzone from the Years of Pilgrimage. Its based on a theme from a Rossini's Othello, but still sounds a bit spooky I think!
Derek
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Gail Starr Thanks - I think so!!
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Derek McConville beautifully played, and so well chosen! I've heard that piece performed many times but never quite realized how eerie it is, and how suitable for Halloween.
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Alexander Weymann thank you!
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Derek McConville Thank you so much for recording this. Haveing managed to miss the concert I could enjoy your playing! Lovely piece and thank you for sharing!
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Angela Fogg Thank you!
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Friends, I am so sorry, but I will not be able to play today. I had blocked my afternoon a long time ago so I would be able to participate in this concert, but especially for a physician, our best-laid plans only ever go so far - and this morning, I learned that an emergent obligation will require me to be busy at work nonstop all day. I told Dominic that I will try to record my two pieces and submit them later, if there's still any interest. I hope you all will have a great concert today; wish I could be there!
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Alexander Weymann Hope you can join us the next time!
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Alexander Weymann just make a video for us whenever you have time and we will watch it.
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Alexander Weymann Make a video with your pieces, Alexander! Of course, we are interested in listening them
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Gail Starr , Juan Carlos Olite - thank you for voicing interest in still hearing me play my little selection of pieces for Hallowe’en, even though it admittedly is pretty lame to present them 10 days after the concert. That said, here is one:
“Minuit passe” – Midnight Passes – by Abel Decaux is the first of his four piano pieces called “Clairs de lune”. You can hear the twelve somber strokes of the bell at midnight in the sub-bass register throughout the piece. There is a short prose poem by the painter Louis de Lutèce inscribed above the score which I have translated for you here:
Piano... piano... pianissimo… The moon, white, glides silently in space. Chimneys, attics, gables, ridges: tenebrous silhouettes on a field of somber azure… Motionless phantoms… Emaciated carcass of a mewling cat… Grimacing profile of a monstrous gothic gargoyle… Wavering flight of the bat… Pallid brightness in the sky… Mysterious shadow on the ground… Abracadabraing dreams and nightmares… Nocturnal hauntings…
Piano… piano… pianissimo…
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Alexander Weymann Gorgeous piece and fantastic playing, Alexander! Never late to enjoy music like this. Thank you very much for sharing it!
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Alexander Weymann That is very atmospheric. Thank you for sharing!
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Alexander Weymann Every day can be Halloween when you offer pieces like this. Thank you for your spooky, poetic artistry.
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Alexander Weymann Wonderful and superb atmosphere in this piece, great choice to reflect the spirit(s) of Halloween! Glad you were able to share it and look forward to the next concert!
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Alexander Weymann Great piece and playing! Haven’t heard it before.
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Alexander Weymann Bravo Alexander! I love picture you’re painting with this piece. You bring out all those very cool and effect full sounds with so much tension, creating a very exciting scenery for the listener. And a great storyline threw out the twelve strokes... Well done!
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I am so sorry but I’ve missed it- I thought it was a 7.00pm for me….What a sorry thing, everyone has gone home! Will try and do a recording but so sorry to have missed everyone else’s pieces, I was so looking forward to it …..
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Angela Fogg Here it is, The Headless Horseman by Stephen Montague
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Angela Fogg The video is listed as private, so you need to change that setting. Looking forward to listen to it :)
Sorry you missed the live concert!
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Angela Fogg So sorry you missed the concert! A different time zone along with daylight savings does make things difficult. I think your video is set to Private. Can you change to unlisted? Looking forward to listening!
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https://youtu.be/kLNPxpF02_s?si=SRfo8flqmAPGBERj
thank you for pointing this out Sindre and Vidhya, hopefully it is okay now!
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Angela Fogg Bravo Angela!
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Angela Fogg yay! That was amazing. Such a cool, fun piece. And I loved the accessories!
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Angela Fogg What a fantastic piece! Bravo Angela!
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Angela Fogg What an exciting journey you bring us on in this video! Great playing!
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