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Monday, May 19, 2014

A Bluesy Duet and Other News

I started this duet when the "spring" weather was still very bleak and cold and everyone was complaining about the long winter. I was in the mood for writing a bluesy duet, and out came the Long Winter Blues. This piece has a walking bass line, swinging eighth notes and some long lines and long notes to emphasize the "looong" winter. 

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

May Memorizing Project/Update on Student Compositions

Ok, Waldstein I: check. Rachmaninoff: check. And my next memorizing project is-- Chopin! The piece I'm working on is Frederic Chopin's Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major. I have given myself the month of May to memorize this. Starting today that gives me about one page to do every two days....and I already did 1.5 pages today so I am ahead of the game, right?!