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Canonie - "maybe I could do a wild and bold Humble" Or perhaps you could do a humble and bold Wild laugh Well, if you joined Piano World based on articles about Tozer, it seems almost mandatory that you participate! LOL I didn't think that sentence through  And FWIW I meant the composition may be wild and bold, not my playing. The Humble I am looking at is Waltz from Three Piano Pieces 1959, and it's a scarily complex looking sheet - I can't hear/imagine it at all! I know, I'll get my teacher to read it thru for me *evil laughter*. I'll choose something Australian anyway, as a tribute to Tozer who had connections to my music school as he would have to many in this country. My former cello teacher was the last person to perform with Tozer if my memory of the article is correct. It feels good to commit to this recital, thank you.
![[Linked Image]](http://www.runemasterstudios.com/graemlins/images/cloud.gif) Composers manufacture a product that is universally deemed superfluous—at least until their music enters public consciousness, at which point people begin to say that they could not live without it. Alex Ross.
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I posted this over at Adult Beginners so I suppose I should post it here as well - just so there's no fighting Tozer BIO I particularly enjoy the rather too personal bit of information the Tozer was conceived in Tazmania.
"There are so many mornings that have not yet dawned." -- Rg Veda
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There is so much that is dark in this brief biography! There is the Anglican minister with four children and Tazmania, and a certain evening never to be forgotten, and the next thing we know mother is in the HImalayas great with child partying with people like the generous Princess Usha - what is her role in all of this? and the next thing we know Geoffrey is the reincarnation of Noel Mewton-wood? - my head is spinning. Is this what Australia is like?
"There are so many mornings that have not yet dawned." -- Rg Veda
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There is so much that is dark in this brief biography! There is the Anglican minister with four children and Tazmania, and a certain evening never to be forgotten, and the next thing we know mother is in the HImalayas great with child partying with people like the generous Princess Usha - what is her role in all of this? and the next thing we know Geoffrey is the reincarnation of Noel Mewton-wood? - my head is spinning. Is this what Australia is like? Yep.
Composers manufacture a product that is universally deemed superfluous—at least until their music enters public consciousness, at which point people begin to say that they could not live without it. Alex Ross.
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Boo! I hate this, but it's necessary: take me off the Alkan scherzo, but leave me on the etude. I will learn another piece by Alkan for you to add.
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Too bad, OSK! I'm glad you're still in for the Alkan Etude though.
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Euan Morrison: Prelude #tbd by Cesar Cui
beet31425: Prelude and Fugue #tbd by Trygve Madsen
akonow: Scharwenka tbd
gerg: Scherzo-Valse from Pieces pittoresques by Chabrier
heidiv: Canzona Serenata, Op. 38, No. 6 by Medtner
Schubertian: Sonata #6, Paradisi
epf: Under the Palms Waltz by Irene Audain;
Aragonaise from Le Cid by Massenet
currawong: tbd
RachFan: tbd
SlatterFan: Fantasy, Op. 12 by VoÅ™ÃÅ¡ek
pianojerome: Joseph Achron
Nyiregyhazi: Nuit d'ete by Liapunov
John Frank: A Little Flower Op. 205, No. 11 by Cornelius Gurlitt
Orange Soda King: Etude in G Major Op.35, No. 3 by Alkan
sotto voce: Ballade, Op.19 by Fauré
carey: Prelude, Fugue and Variation, Op. 18, by Franck
wr: Nocturne, Op. 22 by Alkan
RogerW: Ten studies, No. 2 Vivace, by Grazyna Bacewicz
soupinmyhair: Passacaglia by Walter Piston
Inlanding: Ernesto Nazareth, tbd
Canonie: tbd
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Is there anyone listed as "tbd" that has chosen their piece yet?
Also, if you haven't signed up yet, feel free. The more the merrier!
Recital date is August 20, 2010, plenty of time!
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Yeah, the scherzo would have been pretty monumental just because I would have (with all due respect to adam and kaki0, the two Youtube users to post videos of this piece as of right now) polished the work much more both technically and musically. But there are more important pieces I need to learn. (First for recital in May, then for a summer camp at Indiana University, then who knows what my college professor will have me working on this fall?)
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Chabrier is just about there. Debugging stage!
Thanks so much Heidi for organizing this. It should be fun!
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I'm still go.
Heidi, please change the prelude and fugue I'm playing from "tbd" to "#4 in Eb minor". (What kind of system for traversing the 24 keys makes #4 Eb minor? Not a normal system used by Bach or Chopin, but a strange one inspired by Kepler and apparently someone named Hermann Beckh.)
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gerg - Did you really think I forgot about it?  Of course we're still on for August 20th. Anyone is welcomed to participate in this e-cital, so please feel free to join us. Any piece that you feel is off the beaten path qualifies. I'll give instructions on how to post recordings as we get closer. Jason - Sounds great! I'll make that change. I'm looking forward to hearing it. As for my piece, I'll be optimistic and say I'm still in too. Heidi
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saw his Schlözer-étude on you-tube, astonishinly briljant for this quite laid back pianist, could try to dust it off, played it at conservatory...
Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure, but not anymore!
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saw his Schlözer-étude on you-tube, astonishinly briljant for this quite laid back pianist, could try to dust it off, played it at conservatory... That would be great, ds! I have so much faith in you that I'll put you down for it! Dust away...  *********** ds, do you mean Op. 2, No. 1?
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I will be adding Fauré Nocturne 33/3 in Ab. 33/2 if I can pull it off in time but that's doubtful.
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The Etude Op. 35 No. 3 keeps improving, so I'm excited! I will most likely quickly learn a couple Alkan Preludes Op. 31 and Esquisses Op. 63 and HOPEFULLY the Chant Op. 38a. No. 1, but don't put those down yet... we'll see how my summer pans out!
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I'll provide Amy Beach's Tyrolean Valse-Fantaisie, Op. 116. It was part of my senior recital, and I played it for Stephen Hough in a master class.
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Excellent! 
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What do you like about the Alkan, OSK?
Jeffrey, can't wait to hear the Amy Beach piece.
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Euan Morrison: Prelude #tbd by Cesar Cui
beet31425: Prelude and Fugue #tbd by Trygve Madsen
akonow: Scharwenka tbd
gerg: Scherzo-Valse from Pieces pittoresques by Chabrier
heidiv: Canzona Serenata, Op. 38, No. 6 by Medtner
Schubertian: Sonata #6, Paradisi
epf: Under the Palms Waltz by Irene Audain;
Aragonaise from Le Cid by Massenet
currawong: tbd
RachFan: tbd
SlatterFan: Fantasy, Op. 12 by VoÅ™ÃÅ¡ek
pianojerome: Joseph Achron
Nyiregyhazi: Nuit d'ete by Liapunov
John Frank: A Little Flower Op. 205, No. 11 by Cornelius Gurlitt
Orange Soda King: Etude in G Major Op.35, No. 3 by Alkan
sotto voce: Ballade, Op.19 by Fauré
carey: Prelude, Fugue and Variation, Op. 18, by Franck
wr: Nocturne, Op. 22 by Alkan
RogerW: Ten studies, No. 2 Vivace, by Grazyna Bacewicz
soupinmyhair: Passacaglia by Walter Piston
Inlanding: Ernesto Nazareth, tbd
Canonie: tbd
Jeffrey Jones: Tyrolean Valse-Fantaisie, Op. 116 by Amy Beach.
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gerg, I was exposed to Alkan when I was younger, so I thought he was just another composer along side the other romantics. I found later as I grew up that his music is rarely played, but I liked what I heard and don't understand why it's overlooked, especially pieces like the cello sonata, Symphony for solo piano, and many of the Op. 35 etudes. The Sonatine Op. 61 and Scherzi Op. 16 are not that bad, either. Plus, who can't resist the Op. 38a. No. 1 chant? He was interested in Baroque and Classical era composers, so he was sort of a classicist.
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