Kick off to the Holidays Concert!
Let's celebrate the kick off of the Holiday Season with a Recital!
Share the music that you have been working on!
Program:
Angela Fogg : Liszt/Schubert: Des Wandern + Christmassy Song!
Thurmond R : Scriabin, Etude C#minor, op. 2 no. 1
Derek McConville Liszt: Liebestraum No.3
Priya Viseskul Chopin Trois Ecossaises op 72/3
Alexander Weymann Franz Liszt's Elegy "Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth" - The Cloister Cell in Nonnenwerth [= an island in the river Rhine].
Harriet Kaplan : Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 No 2.
Peter Golemme : Improvisation on Sleigh Ride
Gail Starr : Debussy: Clair De Lune
springgrass Chopin: Barcarolle
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!
FOR LAPTOPS/COMPUTERS
FOR IPAD/IPHONE/PHONES
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Alas, I have a meeting at the same time. So here's a video of Debussy with holiday lights, if you have time to include it in the concert.
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Gail Starr This is so cool! Can't wait to listen tomorrow!
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Gail Starr your playing got me dreaming… beautiful, Gail!
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Andrea Buckland thank you, sweet froend
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Vidhya Bashyam Thank you!
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Peter Golemme Thank you so much, Peter! My recording secret is that my room has a double high ceiling AND I got a new iPhone for my birthday.
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Michelle R Thank you so much!
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Gail Starr well, now your secret is out, thank you for sharing it, and happy birthday, that was a very nice present to get. It sounds like the new iPhone comes with a really good mic. I am struggling to get a good (recorded) sound out of my piano. I've got two very expensive mics but no matter where I place them, the sound is 'boxy' -- honking in the midrange. (the 'Sleigh Ride' upload is not illustrative --just went with the iPad for that one). The tone of yourrecording has a sweetness that I've been unable to capture with my expensive microphones, but I'm still trying. we've got to be sound engineers on top of everything else in this business.!
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Peter Golemme I think Martin made a really good video on home recording last year. I need to rewatch it!
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Gail Starr Yes, I agree; I attended Martin's Tonebase session and it was really good and covered lots of ground. I've bookmarked it to watch again, and would strongly recommend it to everyone here. I'm relatively new and unfamiliar with all things iPad and Video, but learning a lot through ToneBase. But I've made audio recordings of the piano my whole life, with whatever equipment I could afford at the time--starting with cheap cassette recorders. Nowadays, with very affordable equipment you can make recordings of incredible qualtiy, to the point where you can now think about trying to capture a good sound as well as a good performance. Makes you realize how much skill, art and science go into producing the purity and balance of tone and ambience that professional engineers capture on some of our favorite recordings.
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Hello all, I won't be available to play tomorrow, but hope to be able to catch the concert from my hotel room . I'd like to contribute this little video that I put together to post to the "Improvisation" discussion thread (which I'll do next). My light hearted offering towards helping to kick off the winter holiday spirit.
Also experimenting with my new Luma Fusion MultiCam app -- synchronizing video shot with my iPad, iPhone and laptop, respectively.
Please excuse the flubs -- but are they really flubs? -- ah the beauty of improvisation!
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Peter Golemme Hi Peter - the video is listed as private, so we can't see it!
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Michelle R thanks for alerting me Michelle! so much STUFF to learn! when all I really want to do is play music!! I'll see whether I can change that setting.
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Michelle R OK, I just changed it to "Unlisted" which I think should allow folks to access it.... please let me know if you still can't get to it.... thanks again
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Peter Golemme amazing! So spirited; so much variety - one charming surprise after another! True holiday spirit. Love it!
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Alexander Weymann Thank you Alexander, I consider that high praise from such an accomplished pianist as yourself. I appreciate that you share your music with us and that you also take the time to listen to and comment thoughtfully on the offerings of so many of us. And you somehow manage to keep up with your day job too!, which I suspect places many demands on your time.
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Peter Golemme thank you; you really are very kind. One of the main reasons I love tonebase is that there is no hierarchy, no judgment, and only the friendliest competition. Everyone makes their own unique musical contribution to this piano community and is appreciated for them, and that makes it fun and (relatively) easy to play for others. Playing the piano can be a very lonely endeavor, but in this space, we all share our music without fear and get to enjoy each other's work. I think that's wonderful. I almost couldn't imagine being without it anymore.
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Peter Golemme Wow I loved that! Thank you so much for sharing!
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