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Please submit! There's a bunch of us! You're not the only one. Just have fun with it

It depends, if you're too good, you can't submit

(That's a new rule I'd like to implement )

Well no wonder I can't make my piece sound like the reference recording I have -- the transcription is wrong! I slowed down the problem spot 5x in Audacity (just 5 quick notes) this morning and said "D'OH!" Now I have to unlearn the incorrect sheet music. Give me a week or two ... I might still squeak in. Transcription called for a two-note trill, but it's like "D-E-D-C-E" instead.

Me too! I wanna hear.

OMG!! I did it!!!!! I have successfully submitted a piece to my first Quarterly recital!!!!!

I needed a page turner. I fumbled with the pages badly. But, I'm not going to record this another time. Enough already. I'm not Argerich!!!!! Not hardly!!

Hey, how about starting a thread that asks if we can't vote people off the recital ...

Congratulations, dynamobt!! And you will find that the REAL fun comes when the recital is posted and everybody starts listening and commenting.

Page turns are hard. Whenever possible, if I don't have the piece memorized, I just xerox the sheet music and spread the pages out across my music desk.

I'll remember that for next time. Wait till you hear how badly I turn these pages. There is bad and then there is folly!!

The best way to deal with page turns? Memorize the music!

What to do if the score's too long to fit all the Xeroxed pages on the piano:

Let's assume the score is 10 pages long. Only 5 fit across my piano. So, I tape pages 1-5 together, from left to right, and the same for 6-10. I then put 6-10 on the desk, and tape it so it can't move. 1-5 goes on top of that.

Between pages 5 and 6 is the only turn I'll have to make. When I make that one, I just yank the whole first layer of music off the piano; the second layer is taped so it won't be at risk to come off.

Problem solved! (somewhat )

Well, I am in. It is not perfect, but it is OK. There is a good chance I will resubmit next week after my piano is tuned, so everyone will get to move up!

I've just submitted my first ABF recital piece in AGES. Now that I'm done recording spring can show up any day now...

Yay, Anthony!! Better yet, it's an Einaudi piece!! Good to have you back in the recitals.

yeah, Anthony - long time, no see. You go to all that trouble to meet Monica somewhere for an Einaudi concert and then disappear But I'm looking forward to your piece. You always did such a fine job on Einaudi.

Cathy

anthonyb - Discovery at Night (Ludovico Einaudi)

I'm in. I was disappointed not to be able to use the acoustic, but we have had torrential rain for days on end and even though the tuner was here, the piano has wobbled off centre and sounds too sad. (Tuner will come back but we're waiting for the air to dry out a bit!).

The piece has a few things that are a tad off, but it is pretty representative of what I can do at this point.
Funny thing is that I did it last night, and thought I'd re-try this morning. After several tries this morning, I decided that the one from last night was actually the best take That will teach me


I'm looking forward to the launch, and delighted to see we've got a round of new comers, as well as some old timers coming back!

I can' believe it's only been four days and there are 31 submissions already! And there's a really good mix of music types. I will be broadening my musical horizons by listening for sure.(As if they weren't already crazy enough..)

I always hear a number of "new to me" pieces during our recitals - it is a real education.
There are a lot of genres I would never otherwise hear - (themes from video games for example - some of which are (to me) surprisingly lovely). I usually end up with a new "Oh! I can't wait to play that" list after each recital.

okay.. I made mistakes... but this is about as good as the piece is going to get!:)

Allard - see you're in with David Lanz's beautiful contemporary instrumental classic "Christofori's Dream" - this has been done here before (most notably by Mr Super Hunky, if I remember correctly) and it's always a delight to hear - eagerly awaiting your interpretation!

Augustina, you get to move up one. I resubmitted. Again.