Week Three: Vive la musique française!
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 May 23 - 30 I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Please use the following format when commenting (feel free to copy & paste!):
- Piece you worked on:
- One thing you found easy:
- One thing you found difficult:
- (Optional): a video of you performing it!
Sample daily update:
- Piece you worked on: Ravel's Prelude
- One thing you found easy: Learning the notes, and rhythms were rather straight-forward, and not challenging!
- One thing you found difficult: Shifting the Hands was a bit tricky to get smooth!
Feel free to make these updates as short or long as you wish!
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Pieces you worked on: Emmanuel Chabrier, Feuillet d’Album
One thing you found easy: The beginning. And the piece is nice and short.
One thing you found difficult: Could have done with a few more weeks to feel technically more secure, to play the end with more direction, to experiment with more colors…
But so far so good.
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Andrea Buckland Thank you for introducing me to this lovely piece! You play it beautifully.
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Gail Starr Thank you very much, Gail!
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Andrea Buckland Beautiful! Love these short pieces everyone is playing this month.
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Vidhya Bashyam Thank you, Vidhya, and Brava to your performance last night! I enjoyed it very much!
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Andrea Buckland lovely piece and performance! I had not heard it either! Thank you for introducing it.
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Sindre Skarelven many thanks, Sindre! And congratulations to your marvelous performance of the Arabesque last night! Very well played.
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Andrea Buckland I’m glad to hear that! Thank you so much, Andrea!
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Andrea Buckland One more time, new music for me, very beautiful and melancholic. Thank you for sharing it, Andrea!
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Juan Carlos Olite Merci, Juan Carlos!
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Andrea Buckland ooh that’s so romantic! I love it. You really set the mood - well done!
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Susan Rogers thank you, Susan!
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Andrea Buckland that is such a pretty piece and very prettily played. A new one for me as well.
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Angela Fogg Merci, Angela!
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Piece You Worked On: Romance Sans Paroles Op 17 No 3 by Gabriel Faure
One Thing You Found Easy: I love pieces with a good melody/where the melody stands out. The melody in this piece kept my interest throughout and helped me have some focus while learning. I could also easily imagine the words behind the melody- a narration of a love story.
One Thing You Found Difficult: The last section at the very end. I feel this is where “they live happily ever after.” Need to work on the grace notes/melody here and basically make it prettier.
I really enjoyed this month’s challenge as my piece and many played by others are by composers who are new to me. French music is beautiful!
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Vidhya Bashyam nice playing, Vidhya!
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Andrea Buckland Thanks Andrea!
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Vidhya Bashyam Thank you for introducing me to this lovely, little gem. You did a great job of bringing out the melody, and telling a story. (Well, maybe I made up my own story, but I bet they were similar stories!)
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Vidhya Bashyam Great playing, Vidhya! Loving this piece very much!
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Gail Starr Thanks Gail!
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Sindre Skarelven Thanks Sindre! Enjoyed your performance the other day- even from the first few notes you played during the mike test!
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Vidhya Bashyam such a lovely, gentle piece. You sound beautiful.
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Susan Rogers Thanks Susan!
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Vidhya Bashyam Nice playing！Heartwarming and touching.
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Meiko Thank you!
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