It was the Turkish March....

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Hi All!
Boy, it's good to be back again!
I want to thank you all very much for your wonderful
and complete support after my Dad's death.
Your words and thoughts have been on my mind a lot these
past 3 weeks. It hasn't been easy... but slowly I'm
starting to get my enthusiasm back!
Funny how one piece can trigger it! Lately i had a difficult
time really listening to music, even though i've tried playing
it lately.
But tonight...during dinner, i put on a used record i had bought
several weeks ago, but hadn't listened to yet.
I've been on a Solomon kick lately. (Yeh, I get on musical kicks more
frequently than there are phases of the moon). He's an English pianist,
a major artist, who died in 1988. At his best, his playing could be both
powerful and sublime. It's as if he was playing with his mind, not his
fingers, as his musical lines and phrases would become totally free of
bar lines, metronome markings, and breathe with a life of their own.
He could take a piece you had heard a hundred times and make you listen
to it for the first time!
Tonight i put on a Mozart sonata, in A major, K331. It's the one with
the last movement all fledgling pianists know ... the Rondo a la Turca
(turkish march). One of the 10 most well known classical piano pieces,
something you've heard dozens of times.
But tonight! Geez! I heard it for the 1st time. Its a performance
that makes you jump up and shout Yeh!!! Awright!!! YouGotIt!!!
Everybody else's performance is forgotten! It's that different.
In piano-speak...he gathers up the notes. The two-beat bar is gone.
It's as if he was thinking and singing the melody. He'd push a phrase
foward, hold another one back. It had a real lilt to it. This is
what music should be.
This little movement that i'd heard literally dozens of times was the
one musical experience i've had in the last 2 weeks to give me a jolt!
It's GREAT being back.
I look forward to talking to you all.
Thanks again!
Bill

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Topic - It was the Turkish March.... - BillG 18:34:42 03/10/00 (10)

Glad someone else likes the K.331! - Jorge F 12:52:47 03/11/00 (1)

Thanx Jorge :) - BillG 16:22:40 03/11/00 (0)

Re: It was the Turkish March.... - Allan 09:09:42 03/11/00 (1)

Hey Allan! - BillG 11:38:38 03/11/00 (0)

Re: It was the Turkish March.... - Rob 05:22:32 03/11/00 (3)

Surprised the Heck outta me too.... - BillG 11:33:33 03/11/00 (2)

Re: Surprised the Heck outta me too.... - Rob 15:36:41 03/12/00 (1)

Re: if you've gotta call me something... - BillG 17:00:06 03/13/00 (0)

Re: It was the Turkish March.... - John E 20:22:12 03/10/00 (1)

Ok Jasmine, you can give me back the black cape now... - BillG 11:18:38 03/11/00 (0)

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