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Estates Theater, Prague
Click on the fullscreen button to get a better 360-degree view from the stage of Prague's Estates Theater, which sports a long and illustrious history. This was the theater where Mozart's Don Giovanni and La Clemenza di Tito had their premieres...
Jimmy McPartland Tribute
Jimmy McPartland was one of the great cornet players of the early jazz era and late husband of Marian McPartland. This program pays tribute to the jazz legend with excerpts from a special concert at the Danny Kaye Playhouse at the 2007 JVC Jazz Festival. Tunes include "Struttin' With Some Barbeque," "St. James Infirmary," and "Basin St. Blues."
The Pantheon Will Be Closing in 4 Minutes
Read in the Guardian about how a misunderstanding about the correct closing time of the Pantheon became a shouting match between audience members and staff, and a serious political incident that required an apology from the Italian culture minister to the mayor of Rome. The video of the incident on YouTube:
Broken Human Machine
Extreme sound pressure resulting from a religion/science confab, as interpreted by this Psychform Records crew.
Chopin Butterfly Etude Old School Battle Royal
pianopera has assembled a comparison (in chronological order) of seven historic performances of the Chopin Butterfly Etude Op. 25 #9, as played by Backhaus, Paderewski, Godowsky, Friedman, Cortot, Arrau, and a young Ashkenazy. Listen to how tempos, rubato, piano quality, and stylistic approaches change over 50 years.
Learning to Change - Changing to Learn
I find the following video put out by the Consortium for School Networking absolutely fascinating. How do we fit into this picture as musicians and music teachers? How many of us both in the institutional and private educational realm are being left behind?
(Via @brandags)
(Via @brandags)
Playing Beethoven on Original Instruments
For those of you performing works of Beethoven, it's well worth test-driving a fortepiano, whether an original instrument or copy. Jan Swafford's recent article in Slate talks about how the experience of playing Beethoven can be radically different depending on whether you play it on a modern vs. authentic instrument (be sure to listen to the audio clips in the Slate article). On the opening of the Moonlight Sonata:
The sound is startlingly different from a modern piano and takes a while to get used to. These instruments were mostly played in small to medium-size rooms. The sound is intimate; you hear wood and felt and leather. The voicing is varied through the registers rather than the homogenous sound of modern pianos. On the Katholnig, the effect of holding the pedal down in the "Moonlight" has a ghostly effect, most obvious in the longer-sustaining bass notes that can sound like a distant gong. All these elements of the pianos Beethoven knew shaped the music in the first place, including the way he picked out high and low notes around the murmuring figure in the middle of the keyboard.Trevor Stephenson plays the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata on a modern copy of an 18th-century fortepiano:
More Moonlight Sonatas on the Collaborative Piano Blog:
YouTube Moonlight Sonata Comments...Dramatized
Beethoven Faceoff: Myleene Klass vs. Wilhelm Kempf
The sound is startlingly different from a modern piano and takes a while to get used to. These instruments were mostly played in small to medium-size rooms. The sound is intimate; you hear wood and felt and leather. The voicing is varied through the registers rather than the homogenous sound of modern pianos. On the Katholnig, the effect of holding the pedal down in the "Moonlight" has a ghostly effect, most obvious in the longer-sustaining bass notes that can sound like a distant gong. All these elements of the pianos Beethoven knew shaped the music in the first place, including the way he picked out high and low notes around the murmuring figure in the middle of the keyboard.Trevor Stephenson plays the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata on a modern copy of an 18th-century fortepiano:
More Moonlight Sonatas on the Collaborative Piano Blog:
YouTube Moonlight Sonata Comments...Dramatized
Beethoven Faceoff: Myleene Klass vs. Wilhelm Kempf
More About Memorizing
This is the time of year when the value and craft of memorizing music comes into play. Joy Morin has recently written an excellent guide for those of you looking for more efficient ways to remember your music. I particularly like #3:
3. Always memorize the dynamics, articulations, and and other markings on the page along with the notes. Don't wait until you have the notes mastered! It's difficult to go back and fix things later. It's better - although perhaps more tedious initially - to learn it right the first time.Uh huh. Uh huh. My students have all heard that before. #10 (relating to multiple start points) is also very important for preparation and may save your hide in the heat of battle.
12 Tips for Memorizing Piano Music
Previously on the Collaborative Piano Blog:
8 Ways to Improve Your Marks in RCM/NMCP Piano Examinations
5 Reasons to Memorize Music
Making Endings Work
Run the Program
Goal Setting Part 3: Long Term Goals
3. Always memorize the dynamics, articulations, and and other markings on the page along with the notes. Don't wait until you have the notes mastered! It's difficult to go back and fix things later. It's better - although perhaps more tedious initially - to learn it right the first time.Uh huh. Uh huh. My students have all heard that before. #10 (relating to multiple start points) is also very important for preparation and may save your hide in the heat of battle.
12 Tips for Memorizing Piano Music
Previously on the Collaborative Piano Blog:
8 Ways to Improve Your Marks in RCM/NMCP Piano Examinations
5 Reasons to Memorize Music
Making Endings Work
Run the Program
Goal Setting Part 3: Long Term Goals
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