Summer Community Concert

Sat Jul 11 at 11 AM - 12 PM PDT

Event by Team

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83011475776?pwd=Ep7U2yVaQcFGzgkaSkbp6FAI0EH0jb.1

🎹 Summer 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!

FOR LAPTOPS/COMPUTERS

https://youtu.be/U2K6saBm8fI

FOR IPAD/IPHONE/PHONES

https://youtu.be/UwLo5CzLX2o

- PViseskul
- 3 wk ago
- Reported - view
tentatively signing up - piece tbc :)
- PViseskul
  
  Yesterday
  
  Reported - view
  I will play Mozart Fantasie in D
- Noel_Nguyen
- 3 wk ago
- Reported - view
As said previously, I will submit my recording of Rachmaninoff's Sonata no.2 - III. Allegro molto, even if the picture quality is horrible.
- chuck_levin
- 3 wk ago
- Reported - view
I will play live - Beeth op.101, first two movements, unless time permits more.
- chuck_levin
  
  2 wk ago
  
  Reported - view
  Strike that. I won't be available on July 11. I may try to make a tape instead.
- Larry_K
- 3 wk ago
- Reported - view
Would I be going against the spirit of this event if I submitted a recording and attended?

Will there be other events that are just for recordings?
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
  
  Michelle_Russell
  
  3 wk ago
  
  Reported - view
  Certainly, submit a recording! This happens frequently and for various reasons.
- Larry_K
  
  3 wk ago
  
  Reported - view
  Including because a person is too terrified to play live? lol.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
  
  Michelle_Russell
  
  3 wk ago
  
  Reported - view
  Yes, including because a person is too terrified to play live! For my part, I'm happy to sing live but don't enjoy the playing live experience. My son and I collaborated at the last community concert (he played, I sang) - we might do that again this time.
- Larry_K
  
  3 wk ago
  
  Reported - view
  I saw that, it was nice!
- Akzent oder Diminuendo?
  
  Maria_F
  
  3 wk ago
  
  Reported - view
  You and Thurmond should do more Lieder together. You guys did a great job!
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
  
  Michelle_Russell
  
  3 wk ago
  
  Reported - view
  Thanks, . I think I enjoy it more than Thurmond does. Now, if we start learning some Debussy, then he'll have a challenging piano part! I'm pretty sure I'm learning an English art song next, then either something in French or maybe Brahms' Wiegenlied (or another Schubert). 🙂
- Akzent oder Diminuendo?
  
  Maria_F
  
  3 wk ago
  
  Reported - view
  In terms of Schubert Lieder, I recommend Die Forelle, Gretchen Am Spinnrade, and Das Wandern. Erlkönig is harder to sing, but it has a challenging piano part!
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
  
  Michelle_Russell
  
  3 wk ago
  
  Reported - view
  I love Gretchen Am Spinnrade, but am not quite ready to tackle that one. I'll look more closely at Die Forelle and we have the music for Das Wandern here - Thurmond may have sung that one, but I can't remember if that's one he did or not. He's learning something from Die Winterreise now.
- Akzent oder Diminuendo?
  
  Maria_F
  
  3 wk ago
  
  Reported - view
  Oh, great! If you are not ready to learn Gretchen am Spinnrade, I imagine that you are also probably not ready for Erlkönig as it is quite hard! Das Wandern and Die Forelle are easier.
- Derek_McConville
- 3 wk ago
- Reported - view
Hi everyone, I will play the last movement from Mozart's Sonata in B flat K333 if time permits! I should be able to play this live.

Derek
- Unfrozen Barroom Piano Player
- Peter_G
- 3 wk ago
- Reported - view
Count me in!

Hopefully I'll have something ready from the same list I've been working from for the last few events. My Rachmaninoff Bbm Prelude, after I get through a "Week 4" version from the Unfinished Business challenge, might well be ready, as well as possibly a new Bach WTC pair, and one of the other Rach Preludes I've got in the pipeline.

I too am scared to death of performing classical music live from memory, but these concerts are the perfect opportunity to "practice" that skill, in a safe environment, before a friendly, supportive, and sympathetic audience, many of whom are equally scared of the same thing!
- Kerstin
  
  12 days ago
  
  Reported - view
  I would be happy to listen to you!
- Akzent oder Diminuendo?
- Maria_F
- 3 wk ago
- Reported - view
I plan to participate. I will either play a Chopin waltz, the Mozart Sonata movement I wasn't able to perform in the Mozart challenge, or potentially the Wandererfantasie!
- YMT
- 12 days ago
- Reported - view
I’m planning to play live, Liszt “Harmonies du Soir.” And if time, a collaboration with my mom singing, “I Love All Graceful Things.”
- Pianist, composer and piano teacher
- Sindre_Skarelven
- 12 days ago
- Reported - view
I’ll play the Chopin Scherzo 2 op 31 (as promised).
- Kerstin
  
  12 days ago
  
  Reported - view
  Wonderful piece. This piece brought me back to the piano in 2021. I am still in love with it. I will listen to you!
- Pianist, composer and piano teacher
  
  Sindre_Skarelven
  
  11 days ago
  
  Reported - view
  Wow, great to know! That’s what Chopin does to us - calls us back to the piano. It’s a brilliant piece and I hope to do it some justice in the concert.
- Kerstin
  
  11 days ago
  
  Reported - view
  You will, I am sure!
- Der Wanderer
  
  FRANZ_SCHUBERT
  
  15 hrs ago
  
  Reported - view
  This Scherzo was the last serious piece I played as a very young adult more than a lifetime ago. I spent a Winter learning it on my own (no teacher) in order to play it at a local music festival in the Spring.
  
  The adjudicator was an elderly gentleman whose last name happened to be Pounder. I assure you though he was a top notch pianist and I may have been the real Pounder that day. He was very kind though and constructive in his assessment and comments to me which I still to this day remember exactly a portion of the comments. His first comment was that I should familiarize myself with a device called a Metronome and perhaps use it (referring to the opening page and those pesky rests).
  
  Somehow, I managed to rise to the top and fulfill my destiny by receiving a pretty high score, winning the 1st place prize and a small scholarship to boot. (Full disclosure - I also was the only competitor in the class ;-). But at least I didn't come in third place or worse ! 😳 🤐 🤣 ). And in my defence, this was also long before the "everyone gets a ribbon or prize" philosophy of these days.
  
  I've essentially not touched this piece since then. I will certainly be starting from scratch today and wonder today if it is even possible? I think more than ever I need to know? In a few years maybe I will possibly try to resurrect it on my forthcoming worldwide comeback tour on a future ToneBase Community Concert. Ha Ha Ha. (Poof - dreaming time just ended...)
  
  Sindre, thanks for reminding me about this and allowing me to reminisce a little. I am looking forward to this as I do with everything you are conquering like the Ballades, Scherzos, Nocturnes of Chopin and other big works. It is very inspirational! Thank you.