i need to post again...but i don't know what to post about!!!!!!!!!! this is a real dilemma. i had an idea and i completely forgot about it...and now i can't think of anything else. what would interest all of you blog-readers? i don't know how many ppl actually read this, but i'll just pretend that it's so popular that i have a million viewers on a daily basis! pretending can be fun sometimes. so anyways, now that i'm pretending i have a million viewers, i have to make sure to catch all of your interests! now how can i do that? that's a tough one. let me think for a minute, or two or five or so.....................................................................
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........................ok, maybe i'll tell you a little about my musical life this semester. first of all, i'm learning the barber violin concerto, which is amazing! if you want to listen to it, here are the links:
-1st movement:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ifFuF3FoQ&feature=related-2nd movement:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=uql9IV5M_j8&feature=related-3rd movement:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=p_cbnyWG4Fo&feature=relatedcurrently i'm learning the 1st movement, and man i love it!
so besides that, i'm also working on a bach gigue and it's going pretty good. i like bach, but i'm continually liking him even more and more all the time, especially throughout college. both on piano and violin. so anyways, i'm sure some other pieces will come along soon, but those are the two main ones for now.
speaking of piano...my piano teacher has a bunch of new piano majors to teach this year and wasn't able to fit some of the non-piano majors into his teaching schedule. and the other piano teachers aren't exactly the type of options that i'm looking for, since they tend to teach students that are more at a beginning-learning level. so we'll see if i can take piano from my teacher again next semester, and if not, then next year. in the meantime, this semester i'm taking organ lessons instead! i had my first lesson this past thursday, and it was really cool. the lessons are on the really big and awesome pipe organ in the college church. it was really cool to play using the pedals, and i was kinda getting the hang of it by the end of the lesson. so i'm doing some exercises to get used to the articulation you need to play the organ with, and to get used to the pedals. then i'm also starting two preludes. one of them has a pedal solo, which is gonna be so fun to learn! so i'm pretty excited about it. the main thing that i'm sad about is stopping my streak of taking piano lessons from when i started when i was 6 until i graduated from college, since i can't take lessons this semester. at least i'll have my streak of taking violin lessons from when i started when i was 3 till i graduate from college. plus i'll be getting some organ-playing learning and experience, which will be good and also hopefully beneficial. oh and i'm also sad cuz i learned the 2nd and 3rd movements of beethoven's pathetique piano sonata last year, and i love the 1st movement so much and started learning it on my own this summer, and i was ready to work on it in piano lessons this year so that i could know the whole sonata. but now i'll just have to keep working on it on my own until i take piano again.
so here are the links for the pathetique:
-1st movement:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lq4G3KRAuXc-2nd movement:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=n2nG1bt7IBM&feature=related-3rd movement:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=qRkr7WgQ_Y4&feature=relatedi call the 1st movement the alex macarthur song...because i always heard this guy alex macarthur playing this song in his piano lessons or practicing it when i was at the music school where i used to take violin lessons at home before college. so ali and i dubbed it the alex macarthur song. the main alex macarthur part that we remember him playing is the fast part after the descending chromatic scale. i love that part so so sooooo much! when i play it, i get thrilled to the bone. i played that section constantly throughout the summer, haha.
anyways, i call the 2nd movement the milo and otis song...doesn't it sound like the milo and otis movie music?
now for symphony...we're playing the hary janos suite by kodaly, which is really cool. especially the 5th and 6th movements. so here's a link:
-5th movement:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=zSv5CvhOEsA&feature=related
i can only find a good one of the 5th movement...too bad cuz the 6th is really cool too.
we're also working on beethoven's 7th symphony. here we go with the links again:
-1st movement:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=s1qAWcd4rr0-2nd movement:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtPVEuAbzM&feature=related-3rd movement:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Td3mRRne39I&feature=related-4th movement:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=VLkZvsp62iU&feature=relatedalright well maybe that's enough music for now. i hope you enjoyed at least one of them! bye...
