Hi all. (Reposted with a correction) And what a Treasure Richard is. I already knew it, but know I know it more. Yesterday we attended his Baltimore appearance...
... Dear Bill, It is curious you quote Chopin's name in your list of German composers. Chopin was a French (born in Poland in a French family) and is even...
... Hi Benjamin. I was not including all German-specific composers. I simply illeterated my sentence incorrectly. I know very well of Chopin's Polish...
Hi all. I have determined that Chopinata in C#m/E is much easier to finger that the one that was evidently printed for sharp-phobic consumers in Cm/Eb. There...
... <perfbill@...> wrote: Scott Joplin like to take his piano everywhere with him. When he went ... the ... HEY, HI EVERYBODY....Gee, I haven't really fallen...
... before ... I do notice that more than 5 sharps or flats make me nervous, but I certainly wouldn't rule out learning a piece just based on the key ...
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There seems to be an inverse relationship between readability and playability. Often, tunes with more black keys wind up being easier to play once I learn...
Oh... Bill, I'd also qualify my own previous comments by stressing that I've always relied heavily on my ears. I'll rarely learn a piece that I haven't already...
I know there are several members of this list in the Pittsburgh area, so I'm posting this here. Next week, Friday April 13, Martin Spitznagel and I will be...
... I am the same way; sometimes I just have to learn a rag in order to get it unstuck from my brain. Except that since I do have perfect pitch, I know full...
... I get certain bee's in my bonnet about alot of rags..I love "Hilarity", and keep coming back to it, but prefer to listen to others play it until I can, if...
I doubt anyone else noticed this, but recently on eBay there was a folio of rags published by Victor Kremer in Chicago, 1902. It had Joplin's "Palm Leaf Rag"...
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Hi, All. I regret that--despite my best efforts to get all my work done--I won't be able to host tonight's ES Live broadcast. This semester, Tuesday nights...
In the folio Classic Piano Rags, Rudi Blesh, Dover Publ. 1973, it appears on p. 100 and shows the original publisher as Victor Kremer Co. with international...
I have a first edition Palm Leaf - in front of me right now in fact - and all the advertised pieces on it are from 1901-1903. The copyright on the original is...
... appears on p. 100 and shows the original publisher as Victor Kremer Co. with international copyright secured MCMIII. That's 1903. Joplin may have scored it...
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Hey all, I just posted Arthur Marshall's piece titled, "I'll Wait Until My Dream Girl Comes Again." Here are the lyrics, Verse 1: Last night I was talking to...
Follow-up. I have talked with Richard on a couple of points in my post and another message off line. I need to publicly clarify one thing that I was unclear on...
I'm not sure if this was posted already on here or not, but you all should check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KjXI6UgLFA Eubie's playing is...
Greetings. This would be part of the SNL performance that we discussed at length in February on this group. Go to View All Messages then start going backwards...
Here's the announcement for the concert I'll be playing in on May 12th: * * * Ragtime Music in an Aircraft Hangar Strange combination? - Not at all, as shown...
Can somebody substantiate this? A few years ago there was a comedy film shown on TV entitled 'National Lampoon European Vacation' starring [who else?] Chevy...
According to imdb.com, the soundtrack includes: "Holiday Road" Performed by Lindsey Buckingham Courtesy of Phonogram International and Warner Bros. Records...
I saw this on the March 23, 2007 MMD, and hopefully, someone out there wants a free player piano? Sure it's unrestored, but you can either learn to do it...
It's always the same with old uprights... The piano's free, but the U- Haul, the case of Budweiser, and the two large pepperoni pizzas (the last two being...
Gee, does that ever sound familiar! ... From: Jim To: EliteSyncopations@yahoogroups.com Subject: [EliteSyncopations] Re: Free player piano in Maryland Date:...
Well, we got off to a small but nice start with this new group. We only had a handfull of people show up, but they seemed to enjoy what was done. Ed Berlin...
