just a few more pics...

Everyone declared, Oh, what a beautiful red scarf you wear!!

beautiful, Bernard, just beautiful!




A picture for Peter!



Howard (hv) and Sue Keller

When Howard and Sue left our small gathering Friday evening, I felt like I had always known them! It was such a special treat to have you both join us for the weekend.


Sunday afternoon hike near Roberta & Ed's home


Farewell, from Old Cape Cod!!

i am not jealous... i am not jealous..

glad to have the internets tho.

Maybe next year Apple. You can come to Maine and we can go down together.

For the Friday night piano party people......

I just talked with Henry F.Miller.....he sends his warmest regards to you folks.



A441

I have added more photos in a new post in the Photo Gallery Forum. I could not add them to this thread, as it has taken me a week to "almost" view all the other photos. You just have to love dial-up internet connections!

Here's the link to the Photo Gallery:

http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/galleries/1289050.html#Post1289050

Greeting from Ines Raquel who stopped for a short visit to play Granados and Piazzolla. I wish I could have stayed longer to hear the rest of you play. The Scriabin piece that LilyLady played was exquisite. Thank you all for your wonderful hospitality. I hope we'll have other opportunities to get together. Next time, I will ask my niece Becky to bring her clarinet. She's a superb player. Great photos! Thanks for posting them.

Ines Raquel

Hi, Everyone! My wife Sue and I had a great time at the Cape Cod Piano-World party. Thanks to all the wonderful people and new friends we made there. Now we know what makes this forum such a great place to be.

An added thrill for me was the chance to hear and record some fantastic pianos. Although I have a very good friend who owns a late model M&H BB, I've never recorded one before. This past weekend I got to record 3 of them. And an August Förster which was more icing on the cake. Anyway, here are the recordings I got. My apologies in advance for less than optimized recordings. But hey, this was a party.

I did my best to identify who was playing... SueKeller is my wife. MrPW is Frank. Tkaczyk. KathyK, InesRaquel, EricGloo, LilyLady, and A441 are members here. The rest I've identified by name.

Not sure what all the pieces are. I've indicated the ones I think I recognise, but I probably made some mistakes. Please correct and fill in the blanks. The last recording is what my piano mics picked up while everyone was quizzing Jacqueline Schwab.

Howard

Cape Cod Piano-World Party Recordings (continued, Part I of II)

Marilyn and Keith's beautiful old M&H AA:

T342-SueKeller-MapleLeaf.mp3
T343-1-MrPW-BeethovenBoogie.mp3
T343-2_MrPW-Kathy'sSong.mp3
T343-3-MrPW.mp3
T344-1-Tkaczyk.mp3
T344-2-Tkaczyk.mp3
T345-A441.mp3
T346-1-KarenKelly.mp3
T346-2-KarenKelly-Misty.mp3
T347-1-KathyK.mp3

Helga and John's wonderful M&H BB:

T348-1-InesRaquel.mp3
T348-2-InesRaquel.mp3
T348-3-InesRaquel.mp3
T349-EricGloo.mp3
T350-2-LillyLady-Scriabin.mp3
T351-Tkaczyk-Prelude.mp3
T353-1-SueKeller-Pioneers.mp3
T353-2-SueKeller-LionTamer.mp3
T353-3-SueKeller-BeatlesMedley1.mp3
T354-1-A441-ClaireDeLune.mp3
T354-2-A441.mp3
T355-KathyK-Ravell.mp3

Roberta and Ed's fabulous M&H A:

T356-1-EricGloo.mp3
T356-2-EricGloo.mp3
T356-3-EricGloo.mp3
T356-4-EricGloo.mp3
T356-5-EricGloo.mp3
T356-6-EricGloo-duet.mp3
T357-KathyK.mp3
T358-KarenKelly_StoryWeather.mp3
T360-KathyK-ChopinBallade.mp3
T361-1-BecketSenchur.mp3
T361-2-BecketSenchur.mp3
T361-3-BecketSenchur.mp3
T361-4-BecketSenchur.mp3
T366-4-SueKeller-MozartSnipit.mp3

Cape Cod Piano Party Recordings (continued, Part II of II)
Sunday Morning Brunch at the Howes and their new gorgeous August Forster


T369-1-Sue-readingAshokanFairwell.mp3
T369-2-SueKeller-reading.mp3
T370-1-SueKeller-readiRagtimeMusical.mp3
T370-2-SueKeller-readTearsInHeaven.mp3
T371-SueKeller-SnowyMorningBlues.mp3
T373-1-LilyLady-2ndMovPathetique.mp3
T374-1-A441.mp3
T374-2-A441.mp3
T374-3-A441.mp3
T375-1-MimiAce.mp3
T375-2-MimiAce.mp3
T375-3-A441-AcustomedToYourFace.mp3
T375-4-A441.mp3
T375-5-MrPW.mp3
T375-6-MrPW-RootbeerRag.mp3
T377-1-KathyK-BrahmsOpus76.mp3
T377-2-KathyK.mp3
T378-1-KathyK.mp3
T378-2-KathyK.mp3
T379-SueKeller-CumBac.mp3
T379-SueKeller-Solace.mp3
T381-1-JacquelineSchwab.mp3
T381-2-JacquelineSchwab.mp3
T384-LilyLady-Scriabin.mp3
T387-1-JacquelineSchwab-EnglishCountryDance.mp3
T387-2-JacquelineSchwab-AshokanFarewell.mp3
T387-2-JacquelineSchwab-chat.mp3

Oh Howard what a gift you have given us!! We can't believe that after all these years of piano parties, we can now listen forever to our old friends and new ones as well.

On a personal level these are the first recordings we have ever had of Jeremy (A441) and Eric playing.

The quality is very good even on our little computer speakers.

Thank you sincerely,

Linda and Jerry

I'll second that thank you.

As I mentioned to Howard in a PM, we often have lots of pictures, but rarely have any recordings, and then it's usually just short clips.

It's wonderful to have pictures & sound now!

Thanks, thanks, thanks Howard. I have just downloaded all the recordings - wow.

Now maybe the players will be kind enough to fill in the blanks and put titles to the music. I think all of us can figure out some of the pieces, but the range is so great that I doubt if any of us know them all. I am pretty sure that some of the offerings were composed by the player and only he (or she) has a name for those pieces.

Thank you Howard.
Wow is right. What a treat to listen to your recordings; tremendous quality even on my computer speakers. I am sure it was a lot of work, but it is greatly appreciated.

(Lilylady, I laughed out loud at your post on the mysterious To Do list; notice that most last minute tasks had to do with PETS.)

What a great event and now, thanks to Howard, one that can be enjoyed by many.

Kathy

Re-listening to all this material in preparation for the uploads was a real treat for me. And the photo spreads put me right back there.

Here's some greater detail on what Sue played:

T342 Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin (1899)
T353-1 Last of the Ragtime Pioneers by Galen Wilkes (1984)
T353-2 Lion Tamer Rag by Mark Janza (1913)
T353-3 Beatles Medley ... here's the ABF thread version Sue mentioned
T-366-4 Sue's ad lib alternate classical-styled ending to a Blues vocal piece... I'm so sorry I didn't bring an extra mic to catch the vocals
T369-1 sightreading Ashokan Fairwell by Jay Ungar (1982)
T369-2 sightreading something... ???
T370-1 sightreading Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton ( 1991 )
T371 Snowy Morning Blues by James P Johnson (1927)
T379-1 Cum Bac by Charles L Johnson (1911)
T379-2 Solace by Scott Joplin (1909)

I re-played T369-2 for Sue and she doesn't know the piece or recall it's name. Just playing a sheet she found lying on the piano while chatting with Eric. Maybe one of Jacqueline's? We'll need a little help with that one.

Howard

Here is some info on what I played:

T-349 Hymne A L'Amour by Marguerite Monnot (1949)

T-356-1 "Different" from the musical, "HONK!", by George Stiles (1997)

T-356-2 What a Wonderful World, music and words by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele...this arrangement by Ed Lojeski (2008)

T-356-3 Mi Mancherai (Il Postino), by Luis E. Bacalov (2003), recorded as Josh Groban and Joshua Bell duet

T-356-4 One, by Eric Gloo (2005)

T-356-5 and T-356-6 Performed not by me, but by Jeremy Gloo, and duet with Frank Baxter

Please accept my thanks to hosts of the party who opened their homes to us and to all those others that made this possible. It was wonderful venue and I thoroughly enjoyed the company and music. It was especially impressive that Frank was able to order up some delightful weather for the weekend following a rainy start. It was fun to be thrown suddenly into that crowd and find such a variety of people all brought together by the piano and the music. I sensed some real love, friendship and perhaps (?) some good-natured rivalry between the parties. Not too many fights over who got to the piano first. I appreciate the opportunity to play on these wonderful pianos and to such a gracious audience. What terrific support and encouragement that all showed to me, my son and the other players. I’m encouraged to seek other opportunities to play before people and work through the nervousness. The pictures and recordings are a wonderful reminder. It was a truly memorable experience.

Here are the pieces that I played.
T344-1 Brahms, Waltz in Ab Major, Op. 39, no. 15
T344-2 Tkaczyk,Ringtail Adventure(my own first composition, 2009)
T351 Rachmaninoff, Prelude in C# minor, Op. 3

T369-2 I had left my Dan Coates book at the piano. Sue was playing May You Always... from my book of tunes!

thanks again Howard for taking the time to record and post all the music that was played. It's been an excellent after party treat, for sure!!

Hi all.......

A correction that I can not take credit for......

T-375-3 Is by Mimi I believe....
T-375-4 I believe is also by Mimi

Thank you Howard for all your fine work!!
You are to be condem.....err ah commended......:>)

Jeremy A441

A441 again....

A minor correction.....

Marilyn and Keith Harrisons Mason&Hamlin grand is a model "A" rather than a "AA".

Jeremy