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Forum Post How do I get over a bad performance? Its not my first perfor...
How do I get over a bad performance? Its not my first performance but I haven't had such a bad case of nerves. I actually stopped playing in the middle. Now I am scared that I am going to have th...
Forum Post What level is need to get take a performance major in college?
Hi I am a junior in High school, and would love to take a performing major in college. does anyone know on what they base acceptance to such a program? What kind of pre requisites are there? Thanks
Blog Post Playing a Four Handed Piece Solo
I loved this video and performance of Fazil Say - and I suppose that it is the ultimate solution for a live solo performance of a four hand piece. I like the inovation and the performa...
Forum Post is the Yamaha A1 any good?
...for reviews of A1 vs U1. http://www.scopereviews.com/piano.html A quote: "The final big leap in performance comes at the U1 level. A U1 is a fell-fledged pro-level musical instrument ...
Forum Post Does the pedal have to be indicated in the score for it to b...
...ave utilised this device had it been made available to him. I think the thing to keep in mind is that every performance of a work is an interpretation of the original, and every performance will be...
Forum Post Yamaha CLP-370 vs Roland HP-207? I am having trouble decidin...
...70 vs Roland HP-207? I am having trouble deciding which to get. What do you think? do you have any thoughts on performance and sound of either?...
Forum Post Samick World Series- opinions?
To whom? I'm speaking in generalities. The point is there are real professionals in the music performance business who somehow, miraculously, can make do with just about any instrument set before...
Forum Post Yamaha T118- Is this the same piano as the Yamaha U1?
The Yamaha T118 is a great pianos about 47" high with nice touch and performance. The U1 of course is 48" tall and more expensive, and it is the best selling upright piano of all time, I ha...
Forum Post CPE Bachs Version of his fathers D Minor Keyboard Concerto?
...rd writing strongly suggests it, and JSB of course frequently made such arrangements. So when we hear a violin performance of this concerto, it's a performance of one of the several conjectural &...
Forum Post grand piano and central heating in large hall
...ked and retuned as needed periodically throughout the day (between rehearsal, etc), then I stand by during the performance to touch it up during intermission. If you have no alternative and can�...
Forum Post Steinway serial numbers
... at a summary of them in a 1976 ed. of Reblitz) While the concept of teflon bushings must have been to improve performance over cloth bushings, your comment leads me to believe that that didn't e...
Forum Post Yamaha T121
Actually that is not the case. While the pianos coming to the US from japan today tend to be more of the 'performance' oriented pianos, the same scales built in Georgia are also built in Jap...
Forum Post Solo Piano sheet music for Beethovens Fifth Piano Concerto?
... part and the orchestral part would get in each other's way. For any normal purpose, whether for study or performance, you want either the version with orchestral reduction for second piano (the ...
Forum Post Estonia Pianos
... tune or unregulated too quickly. Has anyone experienced this? Other problems? In short, what is the long term performance of Estonia pianos? 3. Has Larry Fine updated his opinion on Estonia? My b...
Forum Post Joseph Alfidi?
... of Rachmaninov's 3rd Concerto live at the 1972 Queen Elisabeth Competition. It's certainly a great performance, but for whatever reason it seems the career he was destined for never materi...
Forum Post Im new... Sinopolis and Karajans Mahler - Tintners and Jochum Bruckner - Klemperers Brahms
...every critic greatly prefers the live recording, which is generally regarded as Karajan's greatest Mahler performance. Karajan eschews the hyper-emotional, almost neurotic type of interpretation ...
Forum Post Is Chopin's Winter Wind Etude To difficult for me? I am star...
All of the Chopin etudes are difficult, and Op 25 No 11 is one of the more difficult. Most students of piano study several years before tackling this etude. Speed, dexterity, clarity, a left hand melo...
Forum Post Yamaha Disklavier question Grand Piano
...idered a pneumatic player, such as a Pianola Piano or an expression 'reproducing' player? These have performance verve and don't slush the staccato or break chords, the 'sin' ...
Forum Post How a "Difficult" Piano Student Actually Showed Me How to Teach Piano
I'll never forget the time I was giving lessons to this one student. Talk about difficult. She just couldn't get it. And the "it" I'm talking about is not reading music or pla...
Blog Post Art And Snobbery.
...ut I can definitely speak for the keyboard group! I can estimate accurately that a full 20 to 25 percent of my performance work comes from continuo work on harpsichord or organ. It is extraordinary to...
Forum Post Rachmaninoff 5th Prelude
...is rock solid? If not, it can create tension in your playing, and a lack of confidence that will impair your performance of this section. And of course, those downward 2 plus octave leaps... W...
Blog Comment Do You Market Yourself Like Rapunzel?
... performed (partly because it was a dance done mostly in the nude and portrayed ritualistic sex) - a classical performance. And that's just one example. What has changed is the vast options availab...
Blog Post Can You Hear More Than What You're Playing?
  Its truly a wonderful feeling to create, to play, to do anything musically really. But is it enough for oyur brain to play? Can you feel what you're playing? When you're playing can you "hear" ...
Blog Comment Lessons or no Lessons? Come On People! Does It Really Matter?
Sure you're both right - Why should any kid need - SELF ESTEEM Self-esteem. It means pride, self-respect, dignity and confidence. Some people have it and some people don't. Why? No one knows for sure...
 

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