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I can't promise to submit since my preparation habits suck these days. But I promise to admin any of the ones I vote for (20th, rare, female, Scarlatti, preludes) BTW did we not already have a French recital? EDIT: I see we did and there's no reason not to repeat.
NUMBER VOTES - RECITAL TOPIC 3 - 20th+ century classical music 4 - Rare Gems Recital. (A recital of unusual, underplayed pieces.) 3 - Female composers recital 3 - Scarlatti 2 - music from French composers (Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, etc) 2 - Piano Transcription recital 3 - Preludes
The next themed Recital is Beethoven's 250th Birthday, scheduled for April 2020.
So I am looking for suggestions for other recitals. Here are the recitals we have had, going all the way back to 2013. The number in parentheses is the number of submissions.
Grieg (64) Sept 2013 Joplin‎ (24) March 2014 Tchaikovsky (39) April 2014 Schumann (83) March 2015 Great American Songbook (58) Sept 2015 Baroque (49) April 2016 Russian (44) Oct 2016 French (42) April 2017 Spanish Latin American (29) Sept 2017 The Waltz (43) March 2018 Debussy (22) June 2018 Slavic (18) Oct 2018 Nordic (23) Oct 2019
No reason we can't repeat something if there is interest - Schumann was certainly popular. On the other hand, how did we miss Chopin? Or Classical, Bach, modern?
There was never any public discussion about creating the subforum - it just happened one day. I was not happy about it. Someone probably complained that we were taking up space in the ABF. We don't get as much exposure in the subforum, and I feel like I have to make a post in the regular forum anyway to direct people here.
Sam
I have to agree. The subforum seems to get 'lost', no bolding of new posts etc. I keep forgetting to check, and also did not see this new thread. Very bad place for this.
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XXXVII-XXXVIII I pray, that tomorrow I may strive to be a little better than I am today - and, on behalf of everybody else, I give thanks for headphones.
Absolutely LOVE transcriptions, SO much lovely music that wasn't written for the piano, but begs to be played!
NUMBER VOTES - RECITAL TOPIC 3 - 20th+ century classical music 4 - Rare Gems Recital. (A recital of unusual, underplayed pieces.) 3 - Female composers recital 3 - Scarlatti 2 - music from French composers (Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, etc) 3 - Piano Transcription recital 3 - Preludes
XXXVII-XXXVIII I pray, that tomorrow I may strive to be a little better than I am today - and, on behalf of everybody else, I give thanks for headphones.
Question: What is the PW definition of 20th+ century classical music ? 'Officially' it's defined thus: music written in the European tradition during a period lasting approximately from 1750 to 1830
There are several pieces written early 20th that are 'classical' to me, and others that I'm not so sure of really.
Quote from 'West Wing': "If it was written this afternoon, it isn't classical."
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XXXVII-XXXVIII I pray, that tomorrow I may strive to be a little better than I am today - and, on behalf of everybody else, I give thanks for headphones.
Question: What is the PW definition of 20th+ century classical music ? 'Officially' it's defined thus: music written in the European tradition during a period lasting approximately from 1750 to 1830
There are several pieces written early 20th that are 'classical' to me, and others that I'm not so sure of really.
Quote from 'West Wing': "If it was written this afternoon, it isn't classical."
I'm afraid there is no good defition. Often it is referred as 20th century art music instead. But the themed recitals can be a bit flexible. If it feels classical to you, it's fine imo
NUMBER VOTES - RECITAL TOPIC 3 - 20th+ century classical music 5 - Rare Gems Recital. (A recital of unusual, underplayed pieces.) 3 - Female composers recital 3 - Scarlatti 3 - music from French composers (Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, etc) 3 - Piano Transcription recital 4 - Preludes
Physical instruments: Roland FP-30, and E-28 Virtual instruments: "The Experience" piano collection, NI "The Maverick", Galaxy II Grand piano collection, Synthogy Ivory II Studio Grands, Production Voices Estate Grand, Garritan CFX Lite, Pianoteq 7.5.2 Focus: 1850±100 years
The term "Classical" has two meanings (at least the way I learned it).
Classical Period: The period of music history from the death of Bach to the death of Beethoven. Of course, those dates are arbitrary, and you can find music that seems to fit outside those dates. But they are convenient markers.
Classical Music: "Art" music of all periods, from the beginning of musical notation to today. Please don't ask me for a better definition - I don't have one. Like somebody said once, "I can't define art, but I know it when I see it."
Sam, I don't blame you LOL Some of these 'categories' in general get a bit blurry. Some music written for movies, we call 'movie themes', but had they not been written specifically for a certain movie, it would have been a symphony, putting it squarely in the 'classical' box. Hans Zimmer comes to mind...
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XXXVII-XXXVIII I pray, that tomorrow I may strive to be a little better than I am today - and, on behalf of everybody else, I give thanks for headphones.
Apologies if some of these are included above. I’m up for preparing anything but if I had to choose this time around my vote would be: Schubert Mozart Haydn
NUMBER VOTES - RECITAL TOPIC 4- 20th+ century classical music 4 - Rare Gems Recital. (A recital of unusual, underplayed pieces.) 3 - Female composers recital 4- Scarlatti 2 - music from French composers (Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, etc) 4- Piano Transcription recital 4- Preludes
I can't find any of the old themed recitals, prior to Nordic. Are they listed somewhere 'special', like the quarterlies are?
XXXVII-XXXVIII I pray, that tomorrow I may strive to be a little better than I am today - and, on behalf of everybody else, I give thanks for headphones.
They are all great, very hard not to vote for all of them...
NUMBER VOTES - RECITAL TOPIC 4- 20th+ century classical music 4 - Rare Gems Recital. (A recital of unusual, underplayed pieces.) 3 - Female composers recital 4- Scarlatti 2 - music from French composers (Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, etc) 4- Piano Transcription recital 4- Preludes
NUMBER VOTES - RECITAL TOPIC 4- 20th+ century classical music 4 - Rare Gems Recital. (A recital of unusual, underplayed pieces.) 3 - Female composers recital 4- Scarlatti 2 - music from French composers (Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, etc) 4- Piano Transcription recital 4- Preludes
Wait a sec ... did you downvote Rare Gems, and French composers? They had higher numbers before ...
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