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8269
Reminder from: EliteSyncopations Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteSyncopations/cal Ragtime Rendezvous Sunday March 1, 2009 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm ...
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Mar 1, 2009
10:25 am
8270
I'm learning Scott Joplin's "Weeping Willow" In my effort to learn to play Joplin's music correctly, I was wondering how something is meant to be played. The...
Glenn (& Judi)
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Mar 1, 2009
2:19 pm
8271
... There is a similar passage in the B section of Paragon, ms. 3, 7, 11, and in the corresponding measures in the B section of Sleepy Hollow. The intent here...
Bill Edwards
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Mar 1, 2009
3:44 pm
8272
Hi again. I was thinking of a different passage where the lower C is held. In context of Weeping Willow, it should not be too much of a stretch to hold a lower...
Bill Edwards
jazzpianist
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Mar 1, 2009
3:46 pm
8273
Here is how I play the first measure: 1,2,4,1,2,4,1&4. I don't think Joplin's music was intended to be played without pedal although I agree with your...
classicragger
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Mar 1, 2009
4:39 pm
8274
And this brings to mind another question... We have a Yamaha P70, since we live on the 12th floor of a large condominium building, and a regular piano can be...
RsH
torontorsh
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Mar 1, 2009
5:35 pm
8275
Here is a link to a video on youtube of a piano player named Kurt "The Dude" playing Rube Bloom's composition "Soliloquy". Does anyone recognize the piano...
Linda
jazzgrl20s
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Mar 1, 2009
9:04 pm
8276
Hello all. In the Doctor Jazz updates there is a performance of Tank Town Bump played by Terry Waldo. Great playing by Terry of a Jelly Roll Morton tune. The...
Marco Romano
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Mar 1, 2009
9:11 pm
8277
Just wanted to note that a few clarifications have been done on Mrs. Stark's biography in order to properly acknowledge the role of other researchers...
Bill Edwards
jazzpianist
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Mar 1, 2009
9:30 pm
8278
Oops, my mistake. Trying to help Bill out with this story, I shared with him -- and with the group -- information that was not of my discovery. I should not ...
edberlin
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Mar 2, 2009
4:20 am
8279
Thanks for the clarification, Ed. Sue ... with ... not ... Stark ... posting ... remain ... <perfbill@> ... Clark and ... published it. ... chorus ... ...
scattalla
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Mar 2, 2009
4:45 am
8280
... Not my first time with scarlet flesh tones, although usually brought on more by good intentions than reckless ones. Just the same, I still take...
Bill Edwards
jazzpianist
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Mar 2, 2009
4:58 am
8281
We've all had those red faces now and then . . . and not just from sunburns. Although the other "burns" are more painful, we treat them as you and Ed have...
scattalla
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Mar 2, 2009
6:26 am
8282
Try sostenuto if you have it? ... I'm learning Scott Joplin's "Weeping Willow" In my effort to learn to play Joplin's music correctly, I was wondering how...
rudolf radna
rudolfradna
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Mar 2, 2009
3:30 pm
8283
These are among the pieces by the relatively unknown Archie W. Scheu, yet viable parts of Ohio Ragtime that were regarded even when they were first circulated,...
Bill Edwards
jazzpianist
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Mar 2, 2009
7:08 pm
8284
Thanks much for the list of contents! Dick just replied to my email today. Rob...
robcrausaz
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Mar 3, 2009
2:24 am
8285
Randy, Dick's always been good with me about clearing things up like this. Try this email address: dick@rag[dash]time[dot]com (0f course, "[dash]= - and [dot]...
robcrausaz
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Mar 3, 2009
2:31 am
8286
Mmm... Randy, I meant to open with "So sorry to hear that you haven't received your folio yet," and you'll see the first part of that sentence at the bottom of...
robcrausaz
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Mar 3, 2009
2:34 am
8287
A good friend of mine in Miami Beach, Florida would like to sell his 1924 Steinway Aeolian Duo-Art grand player piano. (Serial #225664) It was completely...
Richard Dowling
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Mar 3, 2009
5:59 am
8288
Todd, It would be nice to hear how you liked the film "Whirl of Life" if you go to see it. I heard they showed this during one of the Stanford Dance Camp weeks...
Paul Johnson
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Mar 3, 2009
3:45 pm
8289
I think that Joplin meant for one to use the sustain pedal. On a concert grand and on most uprights, the middle pedal works like this: Press down the middle...
stuart.simon
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Mar 3, 2009
8:02 pm
8290
... You are describing sostenuto pedal referred to in previous posts on this topic, and your intuition seems to follow the general flow (search the posts in...
Bill Edwards
jazzpianist
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Mar 3, 2009
8:40 pm
8291
... Further clarification. The sostenuto depends greatly on gravity for proper execution. Grand piano dampers are free falling. The sostenuto pushes a bar that...
Bill Edwards
jazzpianist
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Mar 3, 2009
8:47 pm
8292
The middle pedal on a piano can be assigned all sorts of functions.  It never did acquire a specific designated function as the leftmost and rightmost pedals...
Bryan Cather
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Mar 4, 2009
12:40 am
8293
Inspired by this thread, I've been practicing the C section of "Weeping Willow" using the sostenuto pedal on the first note, an idea which hadn't occured to me...
John Remmers
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Mar 4, 2009
12:01 pm
8294
Due to stomach flu, I missed the showing of the film. It must be available on a DVD somewhere. Todd...
Todd Robbins
coneyislandtodd
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Mar 4, 2009
1:39 pm
8295
This guy is somewhat important to me since I perform his most famous rag often, as does Dr. Dave Majchrzak. While known more as an organist than any other...
Bill Edwards
jazzpianist
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Mar 4, 2009
7:32 pm
8296
... Sorta. I was able to locate only a portion of it on a compilation, which is a research DVD. ...
Bill Edwards
jazzpianist
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Mar 4, 2009
7:44 pm
8297
Contact the NY Public Library, as they showed 'The Whirl of Life' last night as per the following: [That is the file the Castles performed together in... the...
RsH
torontorsh
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Mar 4, 2009
7:56 pm
8298
The Whirl of Life (1915) A copy of this film survives at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Go to http://www.mont-alto.com/aboutma.html and feel free...
RsH
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Mar 4, 2009
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