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| 21 | | | Performer's name: | CASINITALY (Cheryl) | | From: | Italy | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 1.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Verde Smeraldo | | Composer: | Vinciguerra | | Duration: | 00:59 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P112 upright | | Recording method: | digitalcamera video to audacity wav to mp3 ! | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I wanted to perform a different piece but just couldn't get through it, and as I'm leaving SOON for an extended holiday I succumbed to stress and am submitting Verde Smeraldo, which I love (and the neighbours must be sick of...). It is a very short piece from the Preludi Colorati collection. It is the first piece I played and that let me feel "Oh, I'm really playing the piano". Even as I was learning it, I was thrilled. One day while playing at the school, a little girl - about 6 years old, stood outside the classroom listening to me, and she applauded, clearly she was delighted with the piece! I hope you enjoy it too 
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| 23 | | | Performer's name: | Serge88 | | From: | Montreal | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 5 years + another 5 years many years ago | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoxQ9OSRo7g | | Title of piece: | Someone saved my life tonight | | Composer: | Elton John | | Duration: | 04:15 | | Source of music: | My own version from sheet music. | | Instrument used: | Roland FP7 + software piano (Akoustic Piano) | | Recording method: | FP7 to Garageband and drum track from garageband | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Do you like the drum track or it's better without it? |
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| 24 | | | Performer's name: | joangolfing | | From: | Iowa | | Experience: | About 9 years as a adult | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sarabande in F Major | | Composer: | George Handel | | Duration: | 02:48 | | Source of music: | Great Piano Works: The Mini Series: George Frideric Handel | | Instrument used: | Roland FP-4 | | Recording method: | Akoustik Piano | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Handel wrote 4 different Sarabande pieces. I played Sarabande from Suite No.6 for the last recital. I'm working on all four of them and recorded Sarabande in F Major for this recital. This piece goes back and forth between Forte and Piano so I tried my best to bring that out in this piece. |
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| 25 | | | Performer's name: | Clemente | | From: | Bergen County, New Jersey | | Experience: | A bunch of years, on and off. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.clementelopez.com | | Title of piece: | Milonga | | Composer: | Alberto Ginastera | | Duration: | 02:23 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Boston Baby Grand | | Recording method: | Zoom Q3HD Handy Video Recorder | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | Before I forget... In case you visit. At the site, enter the following:
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On the main page there is one single button. Click on that button and it will take you straight to the video.
Milonga is my recital entry...far from perfect, but here it goes nonetheless. By the way, I did mention the glaring mistake... It was not D-Sharp... The culprit is A#. I played A-Sharp when I should have played A-Natural.
Ginastera originally wrote this melody to be accompanied by words... It was a song. There is a beautiful rendition of it with Martha Argerich playing the piano accompaniment.
The song tells of a love-sick young man addressing the young lady. The song implies that this an unrequited love; otherwise, there wouldn't be any need for the guy to go under the tree in the first place. Roughly, this is what he says:
In my town there is a tree
which they call the tree of forgetfulness (oblivion).
Where love-sick lovers go to console (forget) their
heartaches.
In order not to think of you, one night
I lay down under the tree of forgetfulness and I fell
fast asleep.
Upon waking up from that dream, I was still thinking
of you... because I forgot to forget you as soon as I fell asleep.
Ginastera composed also the piano solo version of the song and titled it "Milonga"...which is what I am playing for this recital. The milonga, same as the tango, are types of dances (music) from Argentina.
I hope that you enjoy it. Thank you. |
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| 26 | | | Performer's name: | Wisebuff | | From: | Brighton Colorado | | Experience: | Many years but recently have been pushing for adequate tempo and better site reading. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Late Train | | Composer: | Eugenie Rocherolle | | Duration: | 03:30 | | Source of music: | A collection called "Touch of Blue" all composed by Rocherolle. She is an American composer who studied at Tulane and then with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. She has many compositions. Lives in Connecticut. | | Instrument used: | Grotrian grand. I never remember the # but it is the replica of the Clara Schumann piano. | | Recording method: | Zoom Q3. I apologize for the long pause before playing but I set it up and have to move across the room to play. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | No breakfast yet this morning and my stomach is growling. This was the first take today and there are glitches for sure but it felt adequate to share. I do love this piece...love trains too. |
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| 27 | | | Performer's name: | TX-Dennis (Dennis Turner) | | From: | dry dry west Texas | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | too many to be this bad | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Heal Our Land | | Composer: | Sen. Orrin Hatch & Janice Kapp Perry | | Duration: | 03:47 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Kawai GE-30 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I've been goofing off a bit this summer, so I have nothing prepared for the recital. I decided to dust off a piece that I submitted in a piano bar about 5 years ago. I ran through it a couple of times this morning and recorded two takes. This is the better of the two.
The song is a hymn written by Senator Orrin Hatch and Janice Kapp Perry. I discovered it in [i]Sheet Music Magazine{/i] some years ago. The song was sung at George W. Bush's second inauguration. |
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| 29 | | | Performer's name: | IRPRONI (Ismael Rodríguez) | | From: | México | | Experience: | One year and seven months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/IRPRONI | | Home page link: | http://www.facebook.com/ismael.rodriguez.official | | Title of piece: | Rue Des Cascades | | Composer: | Yann Tiersen | | Duration: | 05:00 | | Source of music: | Sheet music from the base, improvised in the middle part and the ending learned in the video performance of Dave Thomas (youtube) | | Instrument used: | Yamaha PSR-520 | | Recording method: | My record method consists in film a video with my smartphone and then extract the audio | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is my favorite song, each note means for me everything: love, sadness, courage, bravery, I don't have enough words to describe it... |
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| 30 | | | Performer's name: | BenPiano | | From: | US | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 2 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/lRugCrw_d70 | | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/afpaSTU1096 | | Title of piece: | I Giorni | | Composer: | Einaudi | | Duration: | 06:21 | | Source of music: | The Best of Ludovico Einaudi: Piano Solo | | Instrument used: | Kawai K5 | | Recording method: | Zoom H1 | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | This is the first Einaudi piece I learned. I've been playing this one for a long time and have tried to record it in the past, but I always had a meltdown somewhere. On the bright side, by not being able to record it I've had this as part of my repertoire for a long time - and it's a great piece to play for people. Who doesn't like this piece?
As usual, mistakes abound, and there's a big hesitation in there that is driving me nuts. I almost had a meltdown toward the end at such a silly spot, but fortunately I was able to maintain my composure and save it the best I could.
It was my second take, so I declared it "good enough" and now I don't have to worry about recording it anymore. And even though I've recorded it now, I don't think I could ever let this one fall out of my current play list! |
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| 31 | | | Performer's name: | GracieCat | | From: | USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 1.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Wonderland | | Composer: | David Nevue | | Duration: | 02:32 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Kohler & Campbell | | Recording method: | Tascam DR-07mkII | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Frustrated that it still has random errors, but it's the best I could do. It doesn't sound smooth to me. |
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| 32 | | | Performer's name: | Augustina | | From: | Michigan | | Experience: | Dont keep track:) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/Spot1530?feature=mhee | | Title of piece: | Song from a Secret Garden | | Composer: | Rolf Løvland | | Duration: | 03:00 | | Source of music: | Piano Music, | | Instrument used: | 61 size piano keyboard | | Recording method: | Phone, then converted audio to mp3 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is a very pretty song that was preformed by Secret Garden. Secret Garden is Irish-Norwegian duo. Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry and the Norwegian composer/pianist Rolf Løvland. Another song that they wrote is You Raise me up. Also one of my favorites:) |
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| 33 | | | Performer's name: | BillM (formerly b528nf7) | | From: | Maryland | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOYP0-c9bM8 | | Title of piece: | When I'm Sixty-four | | Composer: | Lennon/McCartney | | Duration: | 03:22 | | Source of music: | Fake book/Play-by-ear | | Instrument used: | Roland KR-17M Digital Grand | | Recording method: | Flip Ultra HD Video Camera | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | Funny, sixty-four doesn't seem that old to me now. |
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| 34 | | | Performer's name: | Strings & Wood | | From: | Colorado | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Op. 28 No. 20 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 01:47 | | Source of music: | Sheet | | Instrument used: | Schimmel K213 NWS | | Recording method: | Zoom 2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is my 3rd Chopin prelude. Harder to get this one under fingers, but probably easier to play once there.
The FF beginning could be a bit more FF... but I am always afraid I will wake someone up, including myself:-) |
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| 35 | | | Performer's name: | Griffin2417 (Griffin) | | From: | Minneapolis, MN | | Experience: | 13 years prior to a 35-year hiatus | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude in G minor (BWV 558 ) | | Composer: | J.S. Bach | | Duration: | 02:10 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Hallet, Davis & Company, acoustic grand | | Recording method: | Don't know. It was recorded in a theater on their equipment. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece was originally written for organ. However, I transcribed it for piano based on a transcription I learned when I was in high school. |
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| 36 | | | Performer's name: | Teodor | | From: | Bulgaria | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 1 year and 4 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE82Y9CWM8o | | Title of piece: | Madder Sky (Code Geass) | | Composer: | Nakagawa Koutarou | | Duration: | 01:33 | | Source of music: | Learned by ear and by watching other videos. | | Instrument used: | 1880 year RÖNISCH piano | | Recording method: | Phone | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | My parents are always in the room so I didn't feel like recording too much. This is take 1. Next time I will submit a more challenging piece. I just didn't have time to record anything more serious as it would involve more takes and I don't have a silent environment to work in currently. |
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| 37 | | | Performer's name: | Copper | | From: | Herndon, VA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 6 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Moon River | | Composer: | Henry Mancini | | Duration: | 02:57 | | Source of music: | Favorite Piano Fake Book | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-250 | | Recording method: | Connect to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 38 | | | Performer's name: | Bluekeys | | From: | USA | | Experience: | 4 years/ 11 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Waltz in A Minor | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 02:51 | | Source of music: | Palmer (Alfred's) Introduction to Chopin | | Instrument used: | Yamaha C1 (5'3" grand) | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 about 3 feet behind piano, full stick, normalized and "acoustic" equalization in Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This was my first attempt at Chopin, and it was much harder than I expected, especially considering many people think this the easiest Chopin piece. The chord progression is very basic, and the RH is all single notes, but getting through it without missing any of the wide left bounces and doing the RH trills with a modicum of artistry took a lot longer than I expected. Next up in the Chopin department will be Prelude in B Minor. |
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| 39 | | | Performer's name: | jotur/Cathy Turner | | Experience: | 2 years of lessons in my early teens, 30+ years off, playing dance music since 1995 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | When My Sugar Walks Down the Street | | Composer: | Gene Austin, Jimmy McHugh and Irving Mills | | Duration: | 01:39 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music Magazine, Spring 2008 | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia 100X | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I loved this from the first time I played it, but just now got around to adding it to my repertoire. I got permission to enter the Miscellaneous Instruments contest at the SW Bluegrass and Old Time Festival the end of August, and this is my "honky-tonk/stride" piece. I'm doing Black and White Rag for my second piece (the festival is acoustic only, but there's no piano, hence the need for permission to use a keyboard). I'd like it to be a little more up-tempo by then, but I'll take this
I got the basic melody, chord progressions, and right hand from the sheet music, but I made the left hand a little more stride-y, and added a couple of flourishes in the right hand, and the ending.
Lunch - um. um. No lunch. Late breakfast of eggs with oatmeals with raspberries and vanilla yogurt. |
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| 40 | | | Performer's name: | anthonyb | | From: | Center City, MN | | Avatar: |  | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpFO6V0x-Rw | | Title of piece: | I Giorni | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 06:45 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | So we've got two copies of the same Einaudi piece in the recital. I'm sure that has happened before and I bet it may not even be the last time it happens. I actually had this recorded way back in early July. |
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