Holiday Recital "Winter Melodies of 2024"
WELCOME TO OUR NEXT COMMUNITY RECITAL!
Welcome to the Holiday Recital!
Celebrate the season with us by sharing the music you love! While holiday-themed pieces are always a hit, feel free to play anything that brings you joy.
To sign up, simply reply to this topic with your repertoire, and you're in!
And if you're feeling festive, add some holiday flair to your performance—costumes, decorations, and cheer are all welcome! 
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!
FOR OPTIMIZING YOUR ZOOM SETTINGS PLEASE SEE THE SHORT VIDEOS BELOW!
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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I would love to play "Let it Snow!" by Jule Styne arranged by Lee Evans - since it rarely snows here in Georgia USA!
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Sam Smith And when it does snow, everything shuts down! (I spent the first 28 years of my life in Alabama.) Looking forward to hearing your playing.
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Sam Smith Hey SAM, I will look forward greatly to your contribution from the great American songbook. And It’s totally appropriate that a Georgian should play this, as my understanding is that the song was written in the middle of July in Los Angeles, or some other Sunny locale like that.
As I used to say at my annual Christmas concert at the south Boston library, “anyone who thinks snow is romantic, you know they didn’t grow up around here!”
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I would love to play something completely unseasonal - Rameau's Le Rappel des Oiseaux.
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Monika Tusnady If you lived in Australia, that might be seasonal?
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Gail Starr You put everything into its right perspective!
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Monika Tusnady Et tu le fais aussi, ma chère!
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I would like to play the second movement, Andante cantabile, from Mozart’s piano sonata in B flat major K 333. Nothing like some sweet parallel thirds to get you into the holiday spirit! (5 minutes, without repeats)
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OK, I'm going to challenge myself to play something that's longer than 45 seconds: Clementi C Major Sonatina, op. 36 no. 1, 1st and 2nd movements.
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Michelle R Hi Michelle, I agree, you are entitled to more than 45 seconds of fame, and this little gem from Clementi will get you closer to your proverbial 15 minutes!. It will provide a good platform for you to display your inherent musicality & developing pianism, looking forward to hearing it.
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Peter Golemme Thanks much, Peter. It's a fun little piece, and the second movement is lovely - I hope to do it justice in a month!
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Hello there! My best wishes for everyone of us in this difficult time are for Consolation!
https://youtu.be/HZOOvwGeO1E?si=JZIUvFBDE4hXVPN_
Ciao!
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Letizia very beautiful and consoling, Letizia, thank you for sharing it.
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I'd like to play either Chopin Ballade 3 (to round out the set this year) or Egon Petri's transcription of Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze from the Birthday Cantata. If anyone else would like to play either, please by all means do so - it will be helpful for making me pick one!
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Judy Kuan Hi Judy, well I would LIKE to play the Ballade, except for the fact that there's no way I could! so that's a safe choice from my perspective and it would be a privilege to hear you round out the cycle.
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Peter Golemme Thank you, but you could definitely play it if/when you want to! I started Ballade 4 around this time last year, never thinking I'd get very far with it but because it was soothing to practice while my kitty fur-baby was very sick. The other Ballades I've worked on in the past but this year is when I've made the most progress on them. We all need the right catalyst at the right time, I think...
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I would like to try Beethoven pathetique sonata third movement again.
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Mozart - Say Rondo alla turnaround jazz... is it OK?
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I am thinking of an improvisation on “jolly old Saint Nicholas“ or perhaps some other seasonal tune.
Also, if there’s time, I THINK my F# minor Prelude & Fugue from WTC Bk2 could be ready by then. I keep thinking I’ve got it memorized, and then, every time I play it, a different section seems to fly out of memory, as though escaping for a frolic and detour, before coming back the next day, whereupon I inevitably forget a different section! Obviously more work to do on the memorization! I want to challenge myself to play it from memory, but it would be most unseemly to subject the rest of you to my cursing and fuming should a lapse pop up!
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Peter Golemme Can't wait to hear you!
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Peter Golemme I hope you try to play from memory if you want to! That's one aspect of these concerts that I really appreciate: the ability to try performing live from memory on one's own piano, instead of having to do so while adapting to another instrument.
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I’d like to sign up with Schubert sonata d959, 1.st movement (Allegro), giving me a push to finish this piece. (If concert program get’s too big, I can switch to a shorter piece)
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Sindre Skarelven Looking forward to hearing you play this!
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