Week 1: Choose your piece!
Welcome to the latest Community Challenge!
For this challenge "A Fresh Start" the goal is to pick a BRAND-NEW piece to work on this month.
This is the time to finally open that score that you have been thinking about and get to work!
What are we doing in week 1?
- Select your New piece to work on, and share it below! Let's see what everyone is choosing!
- Submit one video of your practice this week, perhaps featuring your favorite passage of the opening bars!
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Since I have a big, gaping hole in my pianistic background it is time to fill it in. Believe it or not, I have never played any Debussy except for my attempt at "Claire de Lune" at Christmas last year.
So, I downloaded "La Cathedrale Engloutie" last week and even spoke to Jarred about it, with the intention of starting it for this new challenge.
However, the imagery it evokes is just too scary for me. I even had a nightmare about being stuck under water, trying to swim out of the cathedral last night. Crazy, right?
I'll pick a new Prelude. Something more lighthearted.
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I have been looking for "what next?" and I today landed on Scriabin Etude Op. 8 No. 8. I learn at geologic time so would be a big deal to have playable in relatively short time. I also just started another Phillip Glass Etude. No. 5. May double up as that is easier for me. Maybe another PG as well.
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I've been intending for awhile to learn Les cloches de Genève (Liszt-Années de pèlerinage, vol. 1/9), but keep putting it off, so this seems like a great way to get into it. The biggest challenge will be its many octaves-I want to avoid reawakening a lingering RH forearm tendonitis. (I really wanted to tackle Vallée d'Obermann, but it's nonstop octaves, so definitely a non-starter for now!)
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No 3 (The Man I Love) from the Earl Wild -Gershwin Seven Virtuoso Etudes
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I'll be starting on the second movement of Mozart's Sonata in C major. I guess now I really will be starting it. Thanks for the push. :)
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Dear all,
I will learn another John Field’s Nocturne this year, his second nocturne in C minor this time. I hope you like it.
Best wishes,
Aaron
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I'm inspired by Marc M to try learning a work by Scriabin! His Op. 8 No. 12 etude is probably overly ambitious for the duration of this challenge and as an initial foray into his works, but I love it and know I won't regret giving it a try.
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I will work on Björken (The Birch) Op. 75 No. 4 by Jean Sibelius. I'm hoping to learn all of The Trees at some point and this piece is one of my favourites. It'll be fun to work on it while waiting for spring when the birches finally sprout leaves.