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Playadom, if you're doing HS at 1 min you're doing quite well! If you can, try to get it to 45 sec. HS if possible so you have enough "error cushion" when you join them HT. It's quite a nice Slavic dance piece. You'll do quite well with it, I am sure

I'll put you down for #14. It doesn't seem overtly difficult - most of the "challenges" are in the dynamics. Maybe you can bring out something special from it...

I'm sure that the dynamics, however good I might play them, might be muffled a bit by my horrible microphone.

Well gerg you heard it from Monica. I do like 12 though. It's melodic and harmonic.

Maybe the next recital . . . I'll put something in the piano bar though. I'll be the afterglow act.

Have fun!

PS: Taking Frycek's sig line literally for now!

Are you not playing then? I need to know whether to open the slots.

I think you are moving awfully fast with this decisions, I can't follow only because of the time zone - what if Op30no3 is on holiday ??

Thanks, Mistaya for playing number 6 - it is beautiful and I like it very much, but there is no way that my piano can give justice to this very fine prelude.

I've told a month ago that I could play no 11, but I guess that is just another of my stupid childish opinions

Ragnhild

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Hey, I do not want to play number 6, It has given me a really hard time because the bass of my piano is too muddy, the una corda pedal makes it sound like choking and no pedal sounds pling-plong.
I'll play no 6 the day I can afford a Bösendorfer

I said earlier http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/32/4531.html#000000 that I can do no 11 if there's a crisis - it sounds ok on a light piano - but things does not seem to have gone that far, no crisis yet....

Apart from that, everybody : Go slow, take care, make a nice recital and don't eat people for lunch !

Ragnhild

Okay, Ragnhild, no troubles.

We just need solid commitments from everyone who volunteers to play something, so there are no holes. We cannot have seventeen people volunteering for #7, while #5 is left unplayed. That is the trouble we seem to be running into...

I would really value your participation here, if you want to... will see what I can do re #11 - that is a perfect piece for you. You mean a great deal to this forum.

I personally would like to thank Greg for keeping track of all this. My mind (not always in the best shape) is completely lost here. Things are moving fast, as Ragnhild says.

I am happy to see Ragnhild back. And I am very pleased to see some new people here also. I apologize to Mr. Super Hunky for my frivilous reply to your request. I know you were joking (you were, right?). I have seen Barry Manilow in person and he puts on a super show, but then I'm in the senior stage, so what do I know?

Anyhow, once again, thank you Greg. I agree that we do need some serious commitment so there are no holes. Time is running short. Tick! Tock!

I will try to reach Thalamus and Opus30 today.

Regards,
Kathleen

Gerg - thanks for taking on the complicated organisation of all this!

Ragnhild - I'm so glad to see you on the forum once again, and hope that you will join in even if it's no. 11 rather than no. 6. As for pianos - well mine is a bit like yours, and certainly won't do justice to Prelude 13 either; one can but try.

What trouble? If a week from now and you still can't find anyone to do it, then put my name on it.

Hey, I don't see YD on the list. We should ask him if he likes to participate.

You are right maryrose, it is a nice thing to participate, and doing my best is actually.......about the best I can do.
But I can only volunteer for 6 and 11,because that's the two I've practiced. Since 11 is fast it means less time listening to a bad piano (and it's also more my character than no 6)

Greg, you have a challenge now, I know there are also people like Cruiser and Brucee who has wanted to be part of the recital for a while, but who maybe are too modest ??

The recital has been planned for months, seems a little strange to make so many definitive changes during 24 hours. I guess it is important to include as many as possible of those who really want to take part, and it is really great that the Chopin preludes are so popular.

Maybe, Greg, you will have to put all the volunteers in a hat and start again with 5,6,10,11,14,19 an 20.

Ragnhild

Just to cover the bases, I wanted to let everyone know that I did send a PM to Thalamus and Op30no3 just a few minutes ago. I hope we hear from them, one way or another.

Regards,
Kathleen

Actually, I was'nt joking! .

I think Barry Manilow does a very good job of interpreting Chopin's prelude in C minor No. 28 in his tune "Could it be magic". This is an extremely difficult piece to play should you look at the complexity of the chords he is using.

I have heard several jazz interpretations of this piece from various artists (yes. I know, a jazz interpretation of a classical Chopin piece does sound nuts!), but they are nothing short of incredible.

I realize that this is a very structured and strictly organized event which is about as far from my playing style as you can get so I will retreat to the land of misfit toys and continue my style of shooting grape jelly out of my water pistol!. Then again, maybe I could set up a piano in the parking lot, hoping to catch people on the way out so they can catch a brief glimps of my freakish side show!.

If you ask me, I'd rather do 5 than 14, now that 5 is open.

SH - Not that we want to keep you out of the recital, but when it comes to any Chopin event, people are very serious in presenting Chopin compositions in their originality. I am quoting this from an event of a Chopin society "Please note only original versions will be accepted; no transcriptions, no arrangements".

Even if you want to play the massive Rachmaninoff transcription of this C minor prelude, it's not acceptable.


playadom - you haven't finished your No 12 yet.

I'm not adding any extras.
Switching preludes won't make it any harder.

I'd definitely listen with appreciation if you put it up in the parking lot, er I mean, piano bar.