March Community Concert!
🎹 March Community Concert
It’s time for our March Community Concert!
Choose something you’ve been working on — a piece you’re polishing, revisiting, or finally ready to share. All styles and levels are welcome.
How to participate:
• Reply below with the piece you’ll be playing
• Share a recording, or let us know if you’d 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 you’ve 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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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,
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I plan to play Beeth. op.81a, last two movements.
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Hi everyone, I would like to play a Scarlatti sonata - D maj K491. I hope to play it live :) Derek
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I’m uncertain if I’ll have access to a piano on this date, so I’ll probably submit a recording soon. Faure Nocturne #4 in E-flat, opus 36.
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I missed too many days of practice this month to perform (due to travel), but will be listening on the 21st.
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I will be away camping on the 21st, so unfortunately I can't participate. I hope to attend the next community concert!
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Switcheroo alert!
I previously said I'd record Etude Transcendental no.2. Well I'm afraid it'll be no.1 instead! Because I ate too much KFC and we are what we eat. In addition, for no.2 I'd rather wait for Dominic's advice in his upcoming podcast on difficult passages, which is just two days before the March concert. I'm sure the podcast will be eye-opening for me, and THEN I can apply his advice, practice it and submit it for the Liszt challenge this summer. Promised!
Edit: here's the link, which will be available on the day of the concert:
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Oh please, don't expect too much ok? I just wanted to simulate a live participation as much as I could! The piece was barely ready to record!
In the past I used to wait until I was maximally ready before recording, nowadays I start to record as soon as I'm minimally ready. I find this to be therapeutic because recording used to make me overly anxious. Recording early in the process has many advantages, but the first attempts are far from satisfactory. Case in point, I showed this recording to two pianist friends. The first took a full day before giving me a tepid "It's good.". The other one flat out said she didn't like it, saying, and I quote, "It's horrendous. I only like it when you play slow pieces, which you almost never do. You always play pieces where there's a gazillion notes swimming around frantically all over the place like spermatozoids"! That's what she said! So, you have been warned😅.