Week 3: Telling your Tale!
Hello and welcome to the WEEK THREE Main Thread for this challenge! 
Alright everyone - this is the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.
Make sure you've read the rules before replying (<- click)
Twice a week between June 6 - June 15 I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Here is this week's assignment!
1. We are reaching the home stretch of this challenge! For the next week, RECORD yourself playing your selected pieces by Grieg!
2. We are going to celebrate your hard work and submissions in a WATCH PARTY on Grieg's Birthday
JUNE 15th at 11am PT
Livestream link coming soon!
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Here is my final take on Grieg's "Gade" opus 57-2. Slightly faster, but I doubt I could ever get it to Allegro. I like it at this tempo, but maybe that is because I am used to hearing it this way!
"Gade" is not a descriptive name, but the name of one of Grieg's teachers, Niels Gade, a Danish composer and teacher. The piece is a dialog between two voices, so it is easy to imagine a conversation between teacher and student!
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Sam Smith nice to see you got your final take in! It's such a pretty piece! By the way, you've got a lovely studio.
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Sam Smith Great job! This has come together nicely for you. Great job on the ending. I do like this tempo as well.
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Sam Smith This sounds great! I really like the tempo. There is so much variety in the lyric pieces.
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When is the deadline for this? I really wanted to do it, but within 24 hours of my first practice, my family and I got Covid. 24 hours later, my mum was on oxygen, steroids and antiviral drip in hospital. She is ok now - just got back home. It鈥檚 been a very dramatic few days. So I didn鈥檛 practice until today thinking it will be fine. But sadly, when I tried to record, I just didn鈥檛 know the piece well enough to finish my recording. Here鈥檚 my little bit of Grieg Puck. If there is another 24 hours remaining, I will do my best to record it properly. Here in Australia, it鈥檚 hard to know. By the way, the first sound you hear is not the moaning of some tortured soul. It鈥檚 my 17 year old son playing a computer game!
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Jackie I hope you can play the whole piece, because this excerpt sounds great.
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Juan Carlos Olite thank you. I feel disappointed that things happened as they did. I could have kept trying, but I鈥檓 feeling easily tired right now. I still have Covid and struggle a bit to breathe. I need to slow it down tomorrow to have clearer memory of the notes.
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Jackie This is wonderful, Jackie. I hope you're able to record the entire piece before tomorrow. And I hope you begin feeling 100% (or even 95%!) soon. Take care, and thank you for sharing this little snippet with us.
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Jackie what you have put up does sound very good! Wishing you a speedy recovery and cheering you on for the video!
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Jackie What a great start of the piece, making us want to hear more! All the best for your mum鈥檚 recovery.
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Jackie so sorry your whole family had covid! this sounds great! In spite of having covid. Glad your Mom is on the mend. I hope your music brings you great joy and peace while you all recover
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Jackie The excerpt was amazing! Sorry to hear about your Covid struggles! Best wishes for a speedy recovery for you and your family!
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Jackie Sorry to hear about your Covid! I hope you get better soon.
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Well done to those of you that made it! I am not quite happy with my final tempo. The challenge at the moment is to get my piece a little faster.
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Hi all, I managed to get two recordings of Kay Hanna playing from the Lyric Pieces. The first is the Watchman's Song, Opus 12 No. 3:
The second is the Solitary Traveler, Opus 43 No. 2. Sorry for the brassy sound.
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Randall Wayne Very beautiful as always. Enjoyed both but I really like the drama of the second piece.
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Randall Wayne very lovely playing in both these pieces, Kay Hanna!
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Randall Wayne Very nice playing of two great pieces! Just letting you know that the titles are switched up, so the first piece is Solitary Traveler and the second piece Watchman's song.
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Sindre Skarelven Thanks Sindre! I will try to fix the title switch-up! [done]
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Randall Wayne wonderful playing by Kay. Bravo
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Here鈥檚 my final video of Arietta. Like others, my first Grieg piece too. Really enjoyed listening to everyone and learning more about Grieg鈥檚 beautiful world.
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Vidhya Bashyam this was performed with so much sensitivity and emotion. I really enjoyed your performance!
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Jackie Thank you so much!
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Vidhya Bashyam love it! You play it so beautifully, with so much feeling! Absoultely gorgeous!
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Vidhya Bashyam Gorgeous, Vidhya!
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