Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)
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 February 6 - 13 I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Here is this week's assignment!
Because the WATCH PARTY is next week, February 14th at 11am PT let's do the following this week!
1. OVERALL GOAL: Record your piece!
2. OPTIONAL: say a few words about why you choose your piece, and what you love so much about it BEFORE or AFTER you play! (Before is nice, because then we can listen with a guided imagination through your words!) You can submit two videos (one of your words and one of the music) I will then put them together into ONE video.
3. OPTIONAL: Record your piece at least TWICE! Why? Because we want you to submit your favorite recording, and tell us why you choose the one that you did. Was it because of technical reasons? Musical ones? It is important to practice evaluating your work through words!
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Here is my final submission for the challenge. This piece is always a work in progress, but here it is as it stands now. It is Brahms Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2. All observations and feedback are welcome. I look forward to more of these community challenges in the future!
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Didn't get two of them uploaded, sorry! Glad to have done this. I wasn't sure I could learn this in 3 weeks, and manage it. What went well? I think I managed to get most of the notes right. I tried to bring in some difference in volume between the sections, and to truly find the tempo of a waltz. What I wish I could have done better? I couldn't find the speed that Ben had. I also didn't find the depth during the middle section that I was hoping for. But all in all, it has inspired me to try Op. 64, no. 1 ("Minute Waltz") which I have always been too intimidated to try. Thanks for this!
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My piece is Baile de Burgos from Joaquin Nin-Culmell, Tonadas, Vol. 1.
I love that it is a short, interesting piece that is accessible to those of us who are late elementary or early intermediate students without sounding like it was intended to be played by children. Played very quickly, it is reminiscent of loud, percussive street dances at the festivals in Burgos in central Spain. Played slowly, though, it is meditative, and Nin-Culmell’s own harmonies come through more beautifully.
I play it slowly. It evokes for me walking with my uncle through the city of Teruel in Aragon, half a century ago, exploring ancient churches and buildings in the exotic “Mudejar” architectural style unique to some regions of Spain. (I posted photos of a few examples, back in Week 1.)
Please excuse my flaws and overly dramatic gestures in the video — this is still a work in progress…😊