March Community Concert!
đš March Community Concert
Itâs time for our March Community Concert!
Choose something youâve been working on â a piece youâre polishing, revisiting, or finally ready to share. All styles and levels are welcome.
How to participate:
⢠Reply below with the piece youâll be playing
⢠Share a recording, or let us know if youâd like to play live
Recordings will be shared as time allows. Thank you, as always, for the care you bring to your playing and to this community.
Looking forward to hearing what youâve been up to at the piano.
General information and Guidelines below!
Reply to this topic with your name and repertoire selection if you would like to perform! If you don't know what you want to play yet, you can always just let us know your intent!
ABOUT TONEBASE COMMUNITY CONCERTS:
These events are NOT live-streamed OR recorded, but are private zoom meetings where tonebase members can share their hard work and perform for each other!
These concerts can be played LIVE, or if you can't attend, you can submit a recording!
This is a GENEROUS and SUPPORTIVE space.
Performing is one of the best ways to push yourself, and really evaluate the work/progress you have made!
Repertoire is open to any piece!
Memorization is NOT required.
You can play select movements, or even sections of pieces! No need to perform a complete work!
Playing the piano is fun, but sharing your music with others is one of life's great joys. Join in on the fun and cheer each other on!
FOR OPTIMIZING YOUR ZOOM SETTINGS PLEASE SEE THE SHORT VIDEOS BELOW!
Because we use zoom for these concerts, it is important to have the best audio and visual settings available!
Check out these videos depending on the device you are using!
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Yihan: Chopin Waltz in Aâ major, Op. 34 No. 1 and/or Waltz in Aâ major, Op. 42 . Ready for a dance with brillante, someone?
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Perhaps a Liszt Etude Transcendental. No promises!
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I would like to tentatively sign up to play Schubert Impromptu op 142 no 4. I will confirm again closer to the date though I hope this will give me the motivation to work towards.
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I hope to be ready with Daina No.8 by JÄnis MediĹĹĄ. He is a Latvian composer, also author of the first piano concerto by a Latvian composer. His dainas (âfolk songsâ) are not arrangements but original short pieces for piano that maybe resemble what we know more generally as âpreludesâ. He has 24 in total, written through various periods in life. No.8 is modaly modernist, composed in 1932. Will try my best to present this (for some new) music to our group. Have never played his music before and feel very inspired by what I discover in it.
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Would love to participate, but I will be on call that day so I may try to submit a recording in case I canât play live. Sergei Prokofiev, Sonata No. 6 Op. 82, IV. movement (Vivace).
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I'll be on call on that day as well, so if I participate it would be through a recording (Liszt Etude Transcendental no.2).
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I would like to play Bach WTC2 prelude and fugue G Major.
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I might participate, but it's possible that I have a scheduling conflict.
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Iâd like to play Chopin Nocturne op 27 nr 2 (Should there be more time, I might ad in another 4 min piece) Looking forward to hear everyone :)
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I would love to play something but not sure I'll have any thing ready. If I can't play,, I know I'll enjoy listening anyway. There are several things Im working on that are as of this date in various states of completion. Maybe I'll be able to play one of these:
Well Tempered Clavier:
-Book 2 B Major Prelude & Fugue, - Prelude memorized but shaky, Fugue 1/4 memorized,; memorization process is VERY slow going.
-Book 1 C Minor Prelude & Fugue - mostly learned and memorized, experimenting with the Prelude, Sustaining lead notes over very slow and soft ostinatos before the Presto section; but then I'm still have trouble keeping hands together and staying relaxed on Presto section.
-Book 1 F# minor Prelude & Fugue -- learned, memorized and recorded already, and could submit that recording. I'm worried about playing it live because I've moved on to work on these other pieces, and may have forgotten it by 3/21 !.
-E Minor from Book 2: won't be ready, tortuously trying to memorize the Prelude before learning and then the same with the fugue.
Rachmaninoff Preludes:
-F Major - moderately well memorized, still have breakdowns in performance.
-A Major - memorized but still can't play it well'! I need to slow it way down and try to work out the many trouble spots.
-Ab Major-mostly memorized, but realizing I need some major technique upgrade in order to be able to play this lightly and smoothly. But in the meantime that won't stop me from trying to play it anyway!
Bb Minor - mostly memorized, but still can't play it! won't be ready,