Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)

Dominic_Cheli
2 yrs ago
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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!

- Andrea_Buckland
- 2 yrs ago
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What I love about this piece? Bach’s music always manages to lift me up into another state of mind, where beauty and clarity fill the hearts of mankind, where solutions are possible and prayers get heard.
- Michelle_Russell
  
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  Andrea Buckland Ahh, Andrea! Beautiful playing - such peace and warmth all wrapped up in an elegant performance.
- Ching_Lee_Goh
  
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  Andrea Buckland i love this and now it's on my list to learn!
- Philosophy teacher and piano lover
  
  Juan_Carlos
  
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  Andrea Buckland Very beautiful Bach, with that special serenity and depth which this music contains. You communicate them with such musical personality. Bravo, Andrea!
- Andrea_Buckland
  
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  Juan Carlos Olite Ching Lee Goh Michelle R Vidhya Bashyam Natalie Peh Sindre Skarelven Hazel Thank you very much, my dear piano friends, for listening and your comments. So glad to be part of this community.
- Darrell
  
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  Andrea Buckland Yes, you do play this in an uplifting way Andrea! I love G minor but I think you would make any piece by Bach sound just as wonderful. It's as if you were born to play Bach!
- Art Historian, Musculoskeletal Radiologist, Former Harpsichordist
  
  MichaelP
  
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  Andrea Buckland I love the way you bring nuance and emotion into this very intellectual and complicated fugue.
- Derek_McConville
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Hi everyone,

Here is my final version of the Chopin Prelude No.13 in F sharp. I think this short piece represents a statement of affection from Chopin (possibly to George Sand or maybe just as piece in bel canto style). I have enjoyed preparing for this challenge and I think I have learned a little more about this work. Best wishes

Derek
- Hazel
  
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  Derek McConville That’s really great. Lovely sensitive playing!
- vbashyam
  
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  Derek McConville Beautiful! You bring out the melody so well (even the left hand melody when it switches over).
- Natalie_Peh
  
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  Derek McConville nice playing, the melody does sing!
- Michelle_Russell
  
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  Derek McConville Nicely played. Thank you for sharing, Derek!
- Andrea_Buckland
  
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  Derek McConville very heartfelt playing, Derek! Thanks for sharing!
- Ching_Lee_Goh
  
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  Derek McConville very nice played!
- Pianist, composer and piano teacher
  
  Sindre_Skarelven
  
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  Derek McConville Beautiful playing!
- Philosophy teacher and piano lover
  
  Juan_Carlos
  
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  Derek McConville Beautifully played and sung, Derek!
- Derek_McConville
  
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  Hazel Juan Carlos Olite Andrea Buckland Michelle R Natalie Peh Vidhya Bashyam Sindre Skarelven Ching Lee Goh thanks so much for your kind feedback! Much appreciated :)
- Mary_Craig
  
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  Derek McConville Beautiful and so elegantly played! Thank you!
- Darrell
  
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  Derek McConville Great performance Derek! I really enjoyed your sense of timing in this Prelude as well as how you clearly emphasized the bass notes!
- vbashyam
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Managed to memorize the piece (Beethoven’s Pathétique Second Movement) for the final post (thanks to the inspiration of Juan Carlos Olite ).
What do I love about this movement? The warmth and richness of the timeless melody, the many layers, as well as the sweet and dark moments. On a personal level, it is nostalgic and brings back happy memories.
- Darrell
  
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  Vidhya Bashyam Brazo Vidhya! Your memorization made it even more rich and memorable!
- Natalie_Peh
  
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  Vidhya simply beautiful, Vidhya! You play with such a lovely tone. A very engaging performance!
- Michelle_Russell
  
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  Vidhya Bashyam Incredibly beautiful, Vidhya! A beautiful piece, sensitively played. Brava!
- Retired MBA/IT Director
  
  Judith
  
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  Vidhya Bashyam - So impressed! Memorization is tough for me, so you are such an inspiration. Lovely.
- Andrea_Buckland
  
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  Vidhya Bashyam There is so much warmth and love in your playing, Vidhya!
- Ching_Lee_Goh
  
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  Vidhya Bashyam Brava!👏 Real feeling of warmth and i like the unhurried pace you took.