xiaosquared: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Watched Moonrise Kingdom on the plane ride back from China and am more than a little obsessed with the Benjamin Britten piece that opens the film. The movie itself was delightful as well, but I think I’m pretty late to the game considering that every hipster couple ever dressed up as the main…
This is the first post of the year from my main blog. One of my big goals for 2013 is to update weekly with more substantial posts than I have been before. I’ve decided to merge content on this blog with my main one. Much of the new content will be about music, and I will still post improvisations.
Check out that first post that I reblogged above. Followers of this blog, it would be lovely if you can go follow xiaosquared.
(When you followed this blog, it might have been called xiaosquared instead of miroirs. I swapped the names of the two blogs a few weeks ago)
Definitely influenced by the Chopin I’ve been working on recently…
I found my thrill
On Blueberry Hill
On Blueberry Hill
When I found you
The moon stood still
On Blueberry Hill
And lingered until
My dream came true
The wind in the willow played
Love’s sweet melody
But all of those vows you made
Were never to be
Though we’re apart
You’re part of me still
For you were my thrill
On Blueberry Hill
The wind in the willow played
Love’s sweet melody
But all of those vows you made
Were never to be
Though we’re apart
You’re part of me still
For you were my thrill
On Blueberry Hill
I love this guy.
started learning this song from the video while cooped up at home during the hurricane
Aftermath of Hurricane Isaac.
Thick and humid evening in the Bywater
under a searing moon in a sky finally clear.
A piano and guitar duo by candlelight,
the former with exposed hammers,
the latter missing its D string,
singing their hearts out to this song.
Chopin Prelude in G minor, Op. 28 No. 22
Still a ways to go but certainly improvement over last month.
This how I feel today.
Just got this memorized. Working on:
- Powerful sound that is not harsh
- Breathing, phrasing
- Intensity, bravura, presence
