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I sometimes boast about it. Like, last month, the name of a pianist (mutual acquaintance) came up when I met someone and we were talking, and I was quick to point out that I turned pages for him....
I’m afraid that page turners won’t have a job for long. More and more musicians are working with tablets and foot pedals. As long as they rehearse with the device, things usually go well.
I’ve had musicians tell me that they would rather not have a page turner because of the possibility of a page getting stuck or being turned too early. Angela Hewitt works with a little pedal and the tablet laid flat on top of the piano, probably more for insurance than anything else.
Anyway, enjoy your gig at Carnegie Hall! Is it on the main stage or in Zankel Hall?
I'd be concerned about flip-flops failing on piano or page-turning pedals. 😆
(The turner first taps around one minute in).
I saw an article about orchestras trying iPads that mentioned times when page turners were paid $100 for important piano and chamber music recitals. PAID! That never even occurred to me. ðŸ˜
I’m afraid that page turners won’t have a job for long. More and more musicians are working with tablets and foot pedals. As long as they rehearse with the device, things usually go well. [...]
This week a well-known husband and wife team performed locally some rarely-heard two-piano works by Julius Roentgen and Carl Reinecke. This duo will be recording these works in London sometime this summer. Both were using tablets with page-turning foot pedals. The wife's foot pedal stopped operating early in the performance but she is enough of a professional that she went on, unfazed, tapping the tablet screen with her finger when she needed to turn a page.
My fear is that in performance, even with rehearsals, something may go wrong with the technology. It's great when it works, but ....
I’m afraid that page turners won’t have a job for long. More and more musicians are working with tablets and foot pedals. As long as they rehearse with the device, things usually go well.
I’ve had musicians tell me that they would rather not have a page turner because of the possibility of a page getting stuck or being turned too early. Angela Hewitt works with a little pedal and the tablet laid flat on top of the piano, probably more for insurance than anything else.
Anyway, enjoy your gig at Carnegie Hall! Is it on the main stage or in Zankel Hall?
8pm on a Saturday evening in Weill Recital Hall!
It’s a trio, performing a concert to coincide with the release of their new cd. It’s contemporary American composers, and I’m a little worried about the music! My friend send me some shots of the music as she was rehearsing and it’s got some, uh, eclectic meters. It’s not like I have any trouble reading music but when the stakes get high, I’d rather be following Chopin! This’ll keep me on my toes!
It occurs to me that I DO have my 13†iPad running ForScore. And the new screen mirror function means I could turn the pages quietly and unobstrusively from my lap on my iPhone. I also have my Bluetooth pedal.
On the other hand, I feel like this is not the situation to try turning pages for others digitally.
On the other OTHER hand, maybe a paper score invites even greater disaster.
I’m afraid that page turners won’t have a job for long. More and more musicians are working with tablets and foot pedals. As long as they rehearse with the device, things usually go well.
I’ve had musicians tell me that they would rather not have a page turner because of the possibility of a page getting stuck or being turned too early. Angela Hewitt works with a little pedal and the tablet laid flat on top of the piano, probably more for insurance than anything else.
Anyway, enjoy your gig at Carnegie Hall! Is it on the main stage or in Zankel Hall?
8pm on a Saturday evening in Weill Recital Hall!
It’s a trio, performing a concert to coincide with the release of their new cd. It’s contemporary American composers, and I’m a little worried about the music! My friend send me some shots of the music as she was rehearsing and it’s got some, uh, eclectic meters. It’s not like I have any trouble reading music but when the stakes get high, I’d rather be following Chopin! This’ll keep me on my toes!
Ah, yes, I forgot about Weil. Have fun!
I seen musicians mess up a page turn such that they had to start over.
I’m not necessarily advocating the new devices, I’m just seeing them more and more when I go to concerts.
Decades ago, I worked in a team that wrote software to replace the paper flight strips used in air traffic control. After years of work, the project was scrapped.
The air traffic controllers could not accept the risk that they might lose an annotation that they had made on an electronic flight strip, something like “Cleared to 35000.†Graphite is basically forever so they decided to stick with paper and pencils. As far as I know, they still do it that way.
Although I’m a computer geek, I prefer music on paper, marked up with Blackwing pencils.
Yes, I am a huge technology nerd and I am always tinkering with the latest and greatest. BUT even though I have tech-ed myself up with piano and music in general, when I am actually seated at the piano I constantly shove the iPad aside and use paper.
With Backwing pencils. ALWAYS.
You can pry my Blackwing 602 pencils out of my cold dead hands. Along with my Angel Carl 5 sharpener.
I was part of sort of a musical 'divorce' that was about page turning.
(Really.)
My teacher was holding one of his periodic evening get-togethers with his students. This was an unusual one because he himself was playing a couple of chamber music pieces as part of the occasion. One of his long-time students (and friends) turned pages for him for the first piece. I turned pages for him for the other. When that piece was over, he turned to me, smiled, and said "You're the best!" I was pretty surprised, because really, there hadn't been anything remarkable about how I had turned the pages; I figured that maybe there had been some issue in the other piece, although nothing had been evident. In any event, I think the other guy must have indeed taken it as an implied comment on him, because next thing, he's blurting, "The piano was too loud! The piano was too loud!"
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