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Thank you

I guess you can put me down for doing Homeward Op. 62/6. I won't be able to get started on it until after the first week in August, but hopefully that's enough time . The other pieces I have ( From Early Years 65/1 and Halling 71/5) are in pretty good shape so far.

I will contact people working on Opus 47, Opus 57 and Opus 65.

I'm involved in Op. 38 and 54. As Sinophilia has already recorded her bells I'll add that Gangar is on target. I'll leave you to wrap up Op. 54 with Beric and Rossy and I'll co-ordinate with the others on Op. 38. I presume you're still in on the waltz so I'll just contact Wayne, SwissMS, Piano Dad and Recaredo then get back to you.

That's wonderful - thank you so much casinitaly, zrtf90 and PianoStudent88 for agreeing to contact others in your groups. This has taken the teamworking we are doing to a whole new level!

Our new 'opus leaders'[/u] are as follows:

[u]OPUS
12 casinitaly
38 zrtf90
43 (vacancy)
47 PianoStudent88
54 zrtf90/dipsy
57 PianoStudent88
62 (vacancy)
65 PianoStudent88
68 (vacancy)
71 (vacancy)
If your opus has a vacancy, please consider contacting others in your opus to check everyone is on track (becoming an 'opus leader'!)and then report back

Thanks to Morodiene taking the most difficult of the untaken pieces, all 5 remaining pieces are at medium level. Please take a look at them. They are:

REMAINING UNTAKEN
OPUS 38:5 (Spring Dance)

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=xUCKtnWXWy4[/video]


OPUS 54:5 (Scherzo)



OPUS 62:3 (French Serenade)



OPUS 65:4 (Salon)



OPUS 68:6 (Melancholy Waltz)

Can you submit your offerings at any time before the deadline? Any particular time preferred?

I'm onto Op. 38, Dipsy.

You just need to contact Beric and Rossy for Op. 54, since I've already confirmed, and I figured they'd be easier for you.

Thanks Richard. I realised my mistake - the opus leader vacancy list is now updated. For op 54, I know Beric is on course and will try to establish if Rossy is.

Peterws - yes, you can submit early - at any time up to to around 10th Sept, in time for the recital about 5 days later. This allows a bit of time to iron out any technical issues and collate submissions and any extra background information available. For now, recordings can be submitted to me, though in future a decision may be taken that each opus leader should hold submitted recordings prior to putting it all together.

Helen, just to thank you for your great work on this themed recital .

I was planning to fuse my two "less than one minute each" pieces into one youtube video. Is that possible?

Piano Dad, we make one video for every piece, at least so did we in the Mendelssohn recital, since the idea is to offer one opus a day.

I can be the Opus 71 leader if it helps!

Thanks Recaredo and Anne H.

I think its really exciting and warms my heart how quickly and how many of you have offered to do more to help make this recital a success. So, less than a day since Casinitaly's idea of having team leaders, almost all of the opus' have team leaders as follows:

OPUS
12:Casinitaly
38:zrtf90
47:PianoStudent88
54:zrtf90/dipsy
57:PianoStudent88
65:PianoStudent88
71:AnneH

The only opus' without a leader are 43,62 and 68.

If your opus has a leader, you will be contacted by that person who will want to know if you are still going to do the piece you said you would do, and ask you how you are getting along. So please work with them.

Dipsy, I could bring op 68 together. Does that mean I’ll be able to boss the 68-ers around and generally give them a hard time?

Anyone currently hovering on the sidelines should look at Melancholy Waltz (68,6). It’s really only 2 pages played 3 times through with a twist on the the 3rd x. Subdued and moody with some very Griegy bitter-sweet modulations. There’s nearly 2 months left to go, surely a newcomer can take this on? (get practising!).

Thanks dire tonic- yes, feel free to give the 68-ers a hard time. I've got an unused riding crop if that helps! (I never really knew what to do with it with my ex!!)

That just leaves opus' 43 and 62 without a leader.

We've still 5 untaken pieces, by the way...

Ok, I'll go with Opus 38 No. 5, Spring Dance.

Thanks Richard. This now just leaves the following pieces:

Scherzo (op 54:5)
French Serenade (op 62:3)
Salon (op 65:4)
Melancholy Waltz (op 68:6)

Just imagine - once all the pieces are taken, I will stop nagging you all!

In case I'm not the only one wondering about this ....

(thank you Wikipedia)

The most common plural of opus in English is opuses. Some people use the Latin plural, opera. Opi is fairly common in the field of classical music, though mostly in informal contexts. The use of any of these three pluralizations may result in the speaker being corrected, though opi above all should be avoided in formal contexts.

Personally , I like OPI ....but then is it OP-eye, or OP-ee?
Ah, the questions never end.

I'm completely unfamiliar with Opi. As it is unlikely to be formal English it is unlikely to have been affected by the great vowel shift, therefore it should be the Latin i.

The Latin is 3rd declension not second so opi should be wrong on that basis.