If you're looking for some repertoire to learn for 2012, consider one of the composers celebrating an anniversary:

2012 Piano Anniversaries: Debussy, Thalberg, Ravel, Gershwin, Cage, Pollini, Barenboim [Piano Sage Blog]
http://pianosage.blogspot.com/2011/12/2012-piano-anniversaries-cage-thalberg.html

Are you playing or preparing any of their works for 2012? Do share your favorite piece!

Yes, I've started working on some Debussy preludes. I just finished learning the notes of the first one (book 1) and plan to study a couple more soon. Maybe we should have a Debussy e-cital. If people are interested, we could even do a John Cage e-cital and that would be a great opportunity for us to learn some material which we otherwise might not have.

Great Idea! I'm happy to put it on the Blog, if you supply the youtube links

Awesome. I will give you links when I'm ready . PW (volunteers) also does these e-citals and I haven't seen a Debussy e-cital so far. It should be very interesting if people jump in on the idea.

Maybe a 2012 anniversary e-cital?

I'm working on Debussy's "Reflets dans l'eau" (now memorized) and "Hommage à Rameau," both from Images, (Première Série)) and both for performance this summer.

I never paid much attention, in the past, to the "Hommage à Rameau," although I heard a fine performance of it this summer, but now that I am studying it closely, it emerges as a wonderfully evocative and idiomatically individual work; I find it quite remarkable.

Regards,

I've been working some on Debussy's etudes, especially No. 5 (pour les octaves) and 12 (pour les accords). Wonderful music, difficult to internalize.

Absolutely! So anybody with the necessary technical expertise here willing to volunteer to host this?

I think as long as everyone has their videos on youtube, and post the link on this thread! I can embed them into one blog page entry :)So get practicing and upload them, then post them here!

Some of us do not post videos; we post MP3 files on box.net.

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Bruce, that is such a fantastic piece of music, good luck with it!

Let's see, I've learned Ondine this year and am now learning Debussy's Ondine. I'm not terribly familiar with Thalberg's music but will make a point to dig deeper this year.

There was also a small mistake on the linked site: It said it was the 150th anniversery of Debussy's death, but it's really his birth. He's not that old!

It's the 126th anniversary of the death of Franz Liszt.

And the 201st anniversary of his birth!

And the 20th anniversary of my birth!!

And my Grandmother's 113th anniversary. According to Wiki she is the 14th oldest person in the US and 24th in the world. She was born the year the Maple Leaf Rag was composed...1899.

Thanks, is that a file sharing site for downloading files, I can convert the mp3 to a youtube video with an image. Or embed the file if it's possible, BruceD can you send me a link to a sample file

Gershwin : "Do It Again"

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Thanks for sharing, Bruce! I enjoyed listening to that.