Week 2: Crafting the story, and finding your intent!
Hello and welcome to the WEEK TWO 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 December 19-25 I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Here is this week's assignment!
1. Do some research about your piece by reading online articles! Try to find the composer's intention for the composition!
2. Think about what you discover and what resonates with you. What do you want to illuminate in YOUR performance?
3. Write a few sentences about your experience. Anything you learned? Something surprised you? What is the general story you want to tell?
4. Submit a video of yourself practicing (You can combine steps 3-4 where you talk to us about the story and then play for us!).
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I'm back from vacation with family for Christmas, so I could finally make a recording of the third movement of the Mozart k310 in A-minor. This movement need more work to feel secure (as do all :P), so I probably will stick with the first movement in the concert. But I will make a video of the complete sonata soon.
This sonata is one of only two sonatas in the minor keys (out of eighteen). It was part of the aesthetics of the time to use the major modes more frequently, as part of the job for the music was to uplift the soul. The minor keys then being seen as more sad and tragic. It must be said that even thought Mozart writes most of his work in major keys, he frequently visit the minor (and does it very well)
The sonata in A-minor is written pretty shortly after Mozart's mother died, so it might reflect some of the feelings he was going threw. Much drama, restlessness, and a feeling of not being able to escape a certain faith. But also great beauty, feeling of calm, maybe a reflecting peace in the second movement.
The third movement is a storm from beginning to end, and quite remarkable I would say. There is a a short section in the related A-major, that might bring some hope. But like the first movement, it's inevitable that this sonata will end in minor.
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Juan Carlos Olite Thank you, Juan Carlos!
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