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...al version of it but not an instrumental version. I suppose if I found an arrangment for piano with four hands, I could cobble a trumpet part out of it. Any ideas?...
...lar analysis/memorization discussions? (I'm already familiar with Seymour Bernstein's 'With Your Own Two Hands' and C.C. Chang's excellent 'Fundamentals of Piano Practice'). Any information would be...
Does anybody know where I can lay hands on a copy of the Nonesuch release of Rameau's Pygmalion? It was on LP, not CD (although I'd love to discover it's available somewhere on CD). Failing that, does
...tory. Ohlsson of course has the technique needed for that piece, and I believe that because of his large hands some things may be a bit easier for him than for other pianists. Especially in the first ...
...which I purchased. This, after an agreeable German Arias, Beethoven 5 and 7th, Schoenberg and getting my hands on his Meistersinger broadcast. The main argument against him, from what I can reduce f...
...ative to my bench at my height (6'0'). I think my keyboard is too high, when I sit at my bench with my hands and fingers relaxed on the keys, my wrists are a bit (1/2 = 1') higher than my elbows. Is...
...ave been a real blow. 'It was thought they would be fairly easy to trace but we had quite a job on our hands. The problem was no-one ever envisaged another performance.' The Royal Library at Winds...
...m to be at my level - when I sat down in front of it the notes just seemed to fall into place under my hands. Those weeks of focused practice have taken my playing, particularly sight reading, to ...
...trange...they might even have got some rmcr people to buy the entire box who were desperate to get their hands on Berman's recording - which doesn't seem to get mentioned whenever recommendations for ...
...ice so that I am forced to look at the sheetmusic. I have tried playing very very simple tunes with both hands just looking at the music. I have tried staring at the notes until they speak to me. But ...
...light of day. What's the point? There have been a few times over the years where I've longed to get my hands on a recording of a concert I had just heard....
...ominent persons(non-music related) whose deaths occurred today: Gregory Peck, a great actor who with his handsome good looks and richly-resonant baritone voice captured my adolescent heart and kept it...
...ique in order to gain control over his 'too fast' fingers : he sat very low, to get a closer view of his hands, and , often, he was heard (even on recordings) mumbling 'Pater noster' in latin to slow ...
Is it just me, or is that last page difficult?! Someone please tell me that it will shape up in my hands! Slow practice? Lots of coffee? What will help? I can keep a fair tempo for the rest of it, but
Eyes and hands. Are you sure you really mean 'June,' though? The June issue (with the Previn-Mutters) on the cover has already come and gone. The July issue (Vengerov cover) is on the stands here at p
...r distributors and retailers had conspired to inflate CD prices. 'This settlement will put cash in the hands of millions of consumers and music CDs in libraries and schools throughout the country, a...
...ventions? Many of the Inventions have extended (several measures long) trill for both the right and left hands. The right-hand trills sound natural against a moving left-hand line, but I cannot say th...
... or knows where I can obtain a 'standard pattern key' in order to lock my uprights lid to prevent little hands from being hurt, or the piano being thumped out of tune!? Very grateful for any info....
I'm thinking about trying to get my hands on a rhodes stage piano, what are the best years for them? I hear the action is really tough on older ones, what year did they get lighter? thanks
...ords I'm playing with the right hand, and synchronize the left hand. I will also have to look down at my hands much more, to see what I'm playing, so as to move the left hand around to play the root n...
...ssion Ens CAVALLI 417 'American Music for Piano Duo' Persichetti: Son for 2 pianos; Cto for Piano Four Hands Barber: Souvenirs (four hands version) Diamond: Cto for 2 Solo Pianos Fennimore: Crystal ...
...ad as i go, as its mostly broken chords. I cant seem to get started! Its like getting the left and right hands to work at the same time playing different things (remember that?) I know it will be easy...
... learn about. It may date from c. 1900 or even earlier. It is a collection of Schubert pieces for Four Hands, arranged by Hugo Ulrich, and published by C.F. Peters in Leipzig and partly in Berlin (s...
...hand of the song and then the left and then togethers And i have to pratice Hanon exercises to make my hands nimble, she said Do you think it is a good way to learn piano ? Regards Luigi (My...
...am, I was playing 'Ain't Misbehavin'' so fluidly and beautifully, and I was talking with people while my hands were doing their thing on the keys... *wistful sigh...*...
...gital 88 key piano. The touch is most critical, as close to a grand as possible with some weight so your hands get a work out. Sound of course is critical as well but my nod goes to touch overall then...
...er measures where I foresee trouble - e.g. mm 34, with the 8 against 3 rhythm for which I've not put the hands together yet (but can play it fine hands separately). My teacher told me several ways o...
...p the two patterns going properly. Anyone know what I would have to do to improve separation between the hands?...
...f controlling the action. What are these people doing, visualizing ahead the printed notes, positions of hands on keyboard or what? Any ideas on how to train the mind to be able to do this? Thanks for...
...should train with an average of 10 to 15 minutes daily, playing anything, very easy, but directly with 2 hands. He has fun doing it with his old beginner's method, but I wonder why some piano teachers...
...supreme String Octet, written when he was 16. I have this arranged for piano duet [that's one piano-four hands] and it's the best fun that can be had at a piano....
...pirited performance and was followed by an electrifying performance of the Prokofiev 1st concerto at the hands of the 16-year old Vondracek who certainly has the measure of this work, both in terms of...
...wearing his handwriting. The Lothar Schell piano is built with the finest material available through the hands of highly skilled and experienced craftsman. The materials used to produce domestic line ...
My newly found teacher who is quite excellent is teaching me to press the keys using only pressure and weight from the wrist and arm and not to use pressure from the fingers at all, he states that it
... to 5. Is there a reason for this? Is Hanon trying to strengthen different muscles on the left and right hands? Dan in Philly...
I noticed in Parnassus' latest flyer re LPs that he has Mozart's music for piano four hands (complete) played by Badura-Skoda and Demus - I assume on a fortepiano. Seems to me that this should be extr
...ious rock/jazz combos. My current teacher, for whom I have great respect, tells me that my fingers and hands are too flat when I play, and that I will never be able to play fast, with control or wit...
...oth must have had some prior training. The camera didn't do the usual trick of never showing the actors' hands. You could almost always see their hands when they were 'playing.' Dreyfus was a more cre...
Slow down. Practice it at a speed at which you can keep track of both your hands at the same time. This can be 40 beats a minute for the fastest note or something equally ludicrous; don't worry about
... and the keys feel a lot stiffer to play, and not as 'pleasing' (if you know what I mean.) I'm sure my hands need time/exercises to warm up - though in the evening the piano plays great straight off...
... in Madrid next week, my piano duo will be performing a concert of contemporary music for one piano four hands. The concert will be held on Wednesday, June 19th at 7:30 PM (19:30) at the Reina Sofia A...
...ong places that Mickey was singing about; not sayin' I have or anything... ) (2) the IMAG shots of his hands (via a camera attached at the end of the piano) were 'slowed down', somewhat like video s...
...xander Bakhchiev and Elena Sorokina, Russian pianists. 'Piano Duets: Romantic Masterpieces'. Piano for 4 hands. (1) Hummel: Grand Sonata for piano 4 hands in A flat major, Op 92; (2) Schumann: Picture...
...ue books or technique schools of thought. If my teacher was right, all pianists would have damaged their hands long ago. Building technique through classical repertoire seems inefficient sometimes, ...
...e outbursts in the third movement of the First Quartet, which are explosive yet clearly defined in their hands. The recorded sound is excellent. J. R. Robinson Denver, Colorado...
... Italianate Bruckner 9, because, IMO, I feel middle movement's melody would fare well under more lyrical hands. Any suggestions? Abbado got a severe panning if you google search. Guillini is viewed ...
...sometimes installed that runs the full (keyboard) width of the piano and reflects the keys and pianist's hands. Other than for aesthetics does the mirror provide any practical function for the perform...
Does anybody know where I can lay hands on a copy of the Nonesuch release of Rameau's Pygmalion? It was on LP, not CD (although I'd love to discover it's available somewhere on CD). Failing that, does
... are there keyboards/pianos with larger keys? 2) Am I very unusual? I have never before experienced my hands to be epecially big. Are there a lot of people who can't play because of that? I am rea...
...ys to help my left out, I think the years of guitar playing might have created a mental link between the hands and no matter what I do, I cant stop it. I can play Rock and roll with a good left hand...
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