<p>shostakovich: if you got stuck on Wieniawski you might have a hard time on Gypsy Airs =/ It’s pretty tricky, I spent quite a while on it myself.
Has anyone played Sibelius yet?</p>
<p>Shrek2004, when were you at Interlochen? D graduated from hs there in 2003 and worked at the camp summers of 2003 and 2004. She is a voice major at Rice. She applied to Indiana, Oberlin, BU, Cleveland Institute (Case Western/double degree program), New England Conservatory (Tufts double degree program), Julliard and Rice. Accepted at all but Julliard and WL at Tufts.</p>
<p>Piano player here…</p>
<p>I’m applying to Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, Georgetown (accepted EA).</p>
<p>Favorite composer:
-Schumann</p>
<p>Favorite pieces:
-Arabeske
-Traumerei</p>
<p>Doh…i want to play gypsy airs…im almost done with wieniawsky…what should i do after that? can i skip straight to sarasate and skip over mendelssohn? also, how hard is the shostakovich violin concerto? I love shostyyyyyyyy…especially his trios, quartets, and symphonies</p>
<p>shostakovich,
definetely don’t skip mendelssohn…it refines your technique so well (not to mention that it helps those double stops in the future). Ugh i hated Wieniawski =( because by the time i was done with that one i had played 3 things by wieniawski in a row and i was about to die.
Shostakovich quartet no.2!!! Download it!!! <3<3<3<3<3 I haven’t played it yet but rumor is that i’ll get to play it this summer…sigh</p>
<p>Bah! too many legit players! What about swing and bop and cool and good modern jazz, man? I probably wouldn’t be able to make as good a living without being able to play legit trumpet, but if I could, I would. I’ll take Buddy Rich over Beethoven anyday. Any body else feel the same?</p>
<p>NOOOOOOOOOO…</p>
<p>JAZZ. BAD.</p>
<p>Although I heard the PGSA enphasized that a lot even though it’s supposed to focus on a wide range of music.</p>
<p>Jazz is awesome, but Classical music is…well, Classic.</p>
<p>I adorrrrrrre classical music. in my mind, i can’t even imagine writing all those symphonies, concertos, sonatas, etc. there’s so much going on! stupid double stops already get on my nerves as it is and these composers had simultaneous instruments in their heads! like ***??</p>
<p>violist here… i applied ed and got into Rice (not as a music major though). I’m currently working on first movement of the walton concerto!</p>
<p>nervous breakdown:</p>
<p>r u gunna major in music? cause you seem like you’re a really accomplished violinist…
blehh…i guess i will play mendelssohn…i just really want to learn two more pieces before i stop playing violin: Gypsy Airs and the Tchaik Violin Concerto…</p>
<p>Rach piano concertos own all.</p>
<p>tchaikovsky is amazing. Zigeunerweise is like, you first look at it you think, moderato, can’t be too bad; starts with 3 eighths notes, pretty easy; half note, quarter note, like grace thing, dotted eighth + sixteenth; fermata on the quarter note… then WHOA, you have this scale with 21 notes starting the open g all the way up to the highest c. then you ponder down the music and there are more!!! and now only do they go up but they come down too! ahhhhhhhhhh.</p>
<p>i know that some of you have no clue what i am talking about.</p>
<p>i was going to start the mendelssohn but my teacher was like, no, let’s go harderand get you on the bruch g minor. i’m like… ok… i was kinda scared when he played it for me.</p>
<p>i thought bruch was definately the easiest of the great concertos
i think it goes in this order</p>
<p>Bruch
Wieniawski
Mendelssohn
Tchaikovsky/Sarasate</p>
<p>YOOOOO
Where mah wind playas at?!
Representin Clarinet!!
k622, straight up</p>
<p>Sarasate’s concerto is so far from great that I’m willing to bet that you didn’t know it existed… if you mean Zigeunerweisen, then put it at the bottom of the list. It’s not as hard as any of those other pieces.
The third mvt. of Bruch 1 is darned hard to play cleanly.</p>
<p>yea i meant zigeunerweisen…but you’re saying that gypsy airs is easier than all of em?? i strongly doubt that…</p>
<p>shostakovich:
i’d love to major in music but i’m not even close to being good enough…i only started Sibelius like a month ago. Actually i think majoring in it would kinda ruin it for me. I like it to much to risk getting sick of it.
ahhhh i can’t wait to play tchaikovsky!!! i can’t do that till i’m done with sibelius, which will be about forever and a half.</p>
<p>i’m not a music major or look to be one… but ive been in a “summer conservatory” honors program at UC Berkeley for the last 7 years… so I know some about music. I play Piano and played clarinet</p>
<p>Favorite pieces:
(in no particular order)
- Chopin 2nd Concerto (im playing this for my senior recital… the second movement is freakin amazing)
- Beethoven Waldstein Sonata (played the first movt, was about to finish it but moved onto other things)
- Brahms 2nd Concerto
- Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies… everyone of them
- Beethoven’s 5th PC
- Saint-Saens 2nd,4th,5th concertos
- Mozart piano concerto no. 20,21,26,27,
- Scriabin - 5th Sonata
- Ravel - Concerto for the left hand
- Chopin - Grande Polonaise Brillante
- Chopin - Gmin Ballade op. 23
- Rachmaninoff 2nd + 3rd concertos (played by rachmaninoff)… other people murder it pretty bad
13.Liszt - Paganini Etudes - no. 5 (La Chasse) (playing this too) - Rachmaninoff - Prelude op. 23 no. 5 in Gmin (played this)
- Mozart Clarinet Concerto
- Liszt - Totendanz</p>
<p>Favorite Pianists -
Gilels
Ashkenazy
Lang Lang (blah blah blah, hes empty and fake, wtvr people say)
Rachmaninoff
Goode
Perahia
Rubinstein
Yundi Li (represent)</p>
<p>did any of you send tapes? i wish i had…oh well</p>