I have been trying for some time to satisfactorily translate this letter written by the Marquis de Custine concerning the famous soirée where...
It was really, really awful but I thought maybe some of you might be curious, so if you like you can listen to it here. I am sick of Beethoven but...
A friend of a friend is selling a piano: http://bechstein4sale.blogspot.com/
Did anyone else catch Carrie Underwood singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl? GAH that was awful....
Has anyone here heard of her? I am playing for a master class conducted by her on the 12th. At first I didn't think much of it, because we often...
I'm going to try to listen to as many recordings of the Bach c minor partita as I can get my hands on, as I'm trying to get some ideas about what...
Does anyone know where I might be able to find letters that were written TO Chopin? I've got the ones he wrote, but I see references to letters...
I played for the general recital class thingy again today, which is, alas, the only way I seem to be able to get a recording, and it's always...
This isn't really a question about technique, but just an observation. I've been working on Bach's 6th partita in e minor (which Felipe submitted...
I have read that Chopin was fond of Hummel, and I've always sort of wondered why, since the only Hummel composition I have ever been familiar with...
You are from the land of Chopin, and you're playing Skynyrd? :? :D
Wow, very nice performance, Julian. Do you have any better audio recordings of that? The sound isn't horrible, but it isn't great, either, and I...
I had to play for general recital class the other day. Well, I didn't have to, but I've turned down the offer before, and I didn't feel like I...
Complete Works of Beethoven - 87 CDs! Interesting - didn't Schiff do the complete piano sonatas? I wonder if all the sonatas in the box set...
Eerie! (Juuf and Alf know what I'm talking about, lol.) I've been away from my headphones for a few days, but I intend to listen to all the...
My music history advisor is taking us to lovely Wien for a culture study (here is the class info if anyone is interested). Any sight-seeing tips?
Charles Rosen complained in his book The Romantic Generation that there is no such thing as a good Chopin edition - that some were better than...
Lately, after I read one post, when I come out of that thread, all of the new posts have been marked read. Does anyone else have this problem?...
I have to know all of these pieces tomorrow, individual movements and all, unless otherwise specified. The bolded bits, I desperately need...
It makes me want to defenestrate myself. :cry:
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