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Hanging out on a ledge, partway up the mountain; simplified versions of the three “new” etudes.

 

 

A performing first, a new piano, and a newly quiet office (because of noise for now).

Plus snippets of all of Op. 10 and some Op. 25.

A mild epiphany about my learning patterns; summer begins; horrible crash-through renditions of 10/1 and 10/2.

 

A report on a performance of six of the etudes from Op. 10, with a little bit of coughing.

85: Tired

Here’s what 10/8,9,3,4,5 and 12 sound like when I’m tired.

Some of Op. 10 heads towards concert-ready, or at least concert; some spots to fix  in 10/4, 10/5, 10/8, 10/9, and 10/10, with a little bit of theory geekery in the latter.

Sticky Notes

A brief encounter with an out-of-tune Erard piano (and another piano). Warning: questionable sound quality! horrible intonation!

PIAS 83

PIAS 82

A glimpse into my hoped-for warm-up of the future, when I’ll be able to play all of Op. 10 and then play anything else in the world. Including 10/8, about half of 10/1, and with-screaming versions of 10/2, 10/10 and 10/7.

In Boston this Saturday? Why not come to my concert?

Some breakthroughs and strategies in 10/8 and 10/10, and a plan for 25/10. By the way, on listening to the recording, I didn’t hate everything I did in 10/8 as predicted, but I definitely need to make the dynamics much clearer.

Here’s the Solomon recording I was talking about.

PIAS 81

 

I’d been listening to a lot of Sparks Nevada on the Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast, so I was thinking of the Martian Wild West when I played this.

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