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Sorry Kathleen, I made a mistake!!

Maybe "greg" was taken and he decided to spell his name backward.

Is "gerg"'s name actually Greg?
If so, of course I retract my post.

I have no idea. Twas just throwing a theory out there.

Reasonable theory. I was guessing it was just inadvertent letter reversal.

What you said. I didn't want "Greg522" or some such. Mozart supposedly played stuff backwards. My cousins and I used to say each others' names backwards, so why not? :-)

YESSSSSS! I rock! Just kidding haha =p

As the king said in Amadeus, "Well there it is."

Let's see if I can delete my "correction" post......

No need to be kidding.
Maybe you don't always know what "the 9th" means (inside joke) .....but you're pretty good at figuring out everything else.

Good job!!!!

Dear Kathleen,

How is 72/1 marked? I think even this recording is a bit fast for my taste. Perhaps this opinion spawns from having the Arrau recording emblazoned upon the memory.

YES, you can do this piece! Remember that you can do anything you put your mind to, and needn't push for that which might be uncomfortable or that which you do not love.

Fondest regards,

Greg

Well, I figured "THE 9th" HAD to be what he meant, but like I said, I've seen crazier things here, so I wasn't completely positive.

You remember how it's been demonstrated that the mind can unscramble words no matter in what order the letters are if they're all there? - Well, I always read "gerg" as Greg. The mirror image had to be pointed out to me.

.....and I never for a second thought of "Greg"!

OH HAPPY DAY!!Frycek is back!! Welcome back, dear friend.

Yes, I do remember thinking I was so brilliant when I could read those sentences, only to discover most people could.

Thank you, Greg (or Gerg) for your kind support. I believe I will try for an Lentgo tempo.

If you haven't had a laugh lately, read the current thread by 10 fingers, presently going on. He is hysterical. He is the one who put out that thread about spending all his money on a piano, practicing 10 hours a day and then his musical background with a triangle.

Regards to all. Color me joyous!

Kathleen

Very glad to hear from Frycek as well!

"Lentgo"-- lento with a little more forward motion? Maybe that works well! I've been practicing my dances for March 5, and have sat down for a moment because the mazurka steps wear me out so fast-- meaning I don't practice remotely enough. My husband thought my adagio concept for the slow movement of the cello concerto was a bit too static. So maybe it should be more "lentgo."

Or possibly "letgo"-- more flexible?

I always kind of wondered if Greg was called "Gerg" as a childhood nickname or something. Guess not. But a gerg by any other name would still be useful to have around as an e-cital webmaster and congenial poster.

Elene

Interesting.... This site says Chopin was born on the 22nd of February, while other sites (including the Wikipedia) say the 1st of March.... But if you google it, there are other sites that say the 22nd of February, which is already today in Australia....
So when was he born? Does anybody know for sure? This is very important....

PS: Sorry for cross-posting!

His family celebrated March 1 as his birthday. I figure his mom knew, since she was there. His birth certificate said February 22. There are varying ideas about why that was the case, but I don't think anyone knows for sure.

One can bypass all that by celebrating his name-day, March 5.

I was just now working on dancing to 67/4 for a small performance (really small) on that date. It's very strange in some measures trying to fit the steps in with the rubato. It's making me wonder again about the nature of rubato in mazurkas generally-- while Chopin's mazurkas weren't meant for dancing, people were dancing to other mazurkas all the time, and if they weren't generally played in a straight 3.... The ballroom mazurkas I've heard are more like waltzes, "boom-chuck-chuck," very straight, but the folk model wasn't like that... I guess.

Anyway, most of it is manageable, except for a couple of measures where I have to sort of hang in midair if I use the steps I'm thinking of. I have to come up with something else for those measures.

Forgive me if I'm repeating myself.

Elene

That is interesting, Elene, thanks for the information.
I will celebrate Chopin today too, and then again on the 1st of March.... He deserves to be celebrated twice anyway!



Good luck with the mazurka! I haven't tried that mazurka yet, but it is very nice!

I'm back momentarily at least. We'll just see how bad a tussle I get into because of the Flint recordings.

Re Fryc's birthday - I'm afraid to say anything not being able to cite chapter and verse - but somewhere I read that Mikolaj, his father, was not very good with dates and was apparently not quite sure of his own date of birth and given that as February 22 and March 1st fell on a Thursday, he may have simply misremembered. I've also heard it may have had to do with the tax situation but have never heard any details about that. I'm with Elene on March 1st though. I'm a mother and a mother knows. Justyna would've known to the minute if there'd been a clock handy. Chopin himself wrote "Born March 1st, 1810 under the sign of Pisces" on an application to the Polish literary society so that should seal it.