Submitted by Sderci on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 18:15
I'm excited! This is the beginning of a project I've been imagining for a while now: an online collection of videos dedicated to the orchestral excerpts. I've always loved William Preucil's CD of selected excerpts, but I've often wished that I could see just how he was doing what he was doing! Today I took out my Panasonic Lumix LX5 and put together a Schumann Scherzo. Here's the video, below which you can download PDFs of my actual part, with bowings and fingerings.
Submitted by Sderci on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 23:00
not "Play it again, Sam" as the saying goes. When Ilsa asks Sam to play "As Time Goes By" in Casablanca, she's asking because he once played it for someone else, and now she wants him to play it for her.
When I play for people in advance of an audition, I usually don't need to do it in the strictest sense: I've played these excerpts for people before, I know in a general sense how I'm going to play them under pressure, etc. But I need to play for people I trust because I need their musical ears, which are different from mine.
