Making art in this world; maintenance practice vs. get better practice; score disagreements; improving my thumb support.
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A report on yesterday’s lecture recital, including first performances of 10/3 and 25/2; thoughts on Chopin’s pedal marks; feeling disenchanted with the Mikuli score; some resolutions for after the holidays. Oh, and have you written your review yet? If I don’t hear from 100 of you by December 20, the podcast ends.
Demisemipenultimate? Only three more podcasts after this one (maybe). Thoughts on practicing between practice; on playing concerto reductions; a mini rant about Hindemith; a taxonomy of the Chopin etudes; and play-throughs of 10/3, 10/5, 10/8, and 25/2.
A mathy way of practicing 10/11; an interpretive conundrum in 10/3; a realization about my playing of 10/12; tricky parts of 10/8; thinking about 25/2, 10/5, and 10/4; beginning to learn the game of 25/8.
Here’s how I’m practicing 10/11:
A report on how practicing Chopin helped me play Brahms last week; some quotes from Chopin (and one from Chuck Close); thinking through my next performance (with a request for your ideas); snippets of all 24 etudes (I’m ignoring the other three for now); an impromptu play-through, with some yelling, of 10/5; how I’m practicing 10/11 (and a couple of minutes of actual practicing).
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This week I’ve been practicing chamber music, mostly the Brahms g minor piano quartet, but also some Mozart and a Piazzolla tango. A short tangent on Clara Schumann, making brave vs. safe choices in the Brahms, and some of the ways I’m practicing this music (including singing the string parts badly).
Sorry the piano audio is a little soft this time–I wasn’t careful when I set up the microphone.
Still mostly practicing right hand alone: small groups in 25/8 and bits of 10/1 and 10/2.
Way too much detail about practicing with just the right hand, especially 25/8, 10/7, 10/10, and spots in 10/1 and 10/2.
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