the classical musos thread

[AzureBlue]

The mystery of Chopin's birthday
http://www.chopin-society.org.uk/articles/chopin-birthday.htm

What is Chopin's real birthday? lol

Chopin - my fave composer <3

then liszt xD

Same! CHOPIN then Debussy then Rachmaninoff

[AzureBlue]

Well, my teacher likes to make me sing opera and stuff, but I do a bit of musical theatre and stuff too.  Currently learning a song from Les Mis for the school concerto concert (using it as a "concerto", lmao).

Awesome - what song from Les Mis are you doing? That's weird, putting it into a concerto concert, but then again - soloist and orchestral accompaniment might work.

[the.watchman]

SIBELIUS then Ravel then Mahler!

Go Romantic and 20th century classical!

[the.watchman]

Well, my teacher likes to make me sing opera and stuff, but I do a bit of musical theatre and stuff too.  Currently learning a song from Les Mis for the school concerto concert (using it as a "concerto", lmao).

Awesome - what song from Les Mis are you doing? That's weird, putting it into a concerto concert, but then again - soloist and orchestral accompaniment might work.

We have singing at our concerto concert most years, last year was Finzi's "Fear No More the Heat of the Sun"

[EvangelionZeta]

Well, my teacher likes to make me sing opera and stuff, but I do a bit of musical theatre and stuff too.  Currently learning a song from Les Mis for the school concerto concert (using it as a "concerto", lmao).

Awesome - what song from Les Mis are you doing? That's weird, putting it into a concerto concert, but then again - soloist and orchestral accompaniment might work.

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.  I think my teacher wanted me to do a song from Rigoletto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFEk6Y8TmM), but I was too stubborn.  >.>  

And yeah, we usually have a song or two at our Concerto Concerts.  Last year, we had two arias (one from The Marriage of Figaro, can't remember the other).

[AzureBlue]

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.  I think my teacher wanted me to do a song from Rigoletto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFEk6Y8TmM), but I was too stubborn.  >.> 
And yeah, we usually have a song or two at our Concerto Concerts.  Last year, we had two arias (one from The Marriage of Figaro, can't remember the other).

That's awesome! When's your concerto concert? What other concertos (instrumental) did you have last year?

[appianway]

Rigoletto... I swear, the translations of some of the songs are really weird.

I really wish we had a concerto concert. Desperately want to play the Bruch with an orchestra...

[the.watchman]

Desperately want to play the Bruch with an orchestra...

Arrange it for double concerto! (fifths )

[EvangelionZeta]

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.  I think my teacher wanted me to do a song from Rigoletto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFEk6Y8TmM), but I was too stubborn.  >.>  
And yeah, we usually have a song or two at our Concerto Concerts.  Last year, we had two arias (one from The Marriage of Figaro, can't remember the other).

That's awesome! When's your concerto concert? What other concertos (instrumental) did you have last year?

Concerto Concert is in September, haha (aaaages away).  Off the top of my head, last year we had:

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto Movement 1 (Daniel Le)
Chopin Piano Concerto 1 Movement 1 (Kevin Kanisius)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 3 Movement 1 (Henry Wei)
Saint-Saens Morceau du Concerto for Horn+Orchestra
Mozart Clarinet Concerto Movement 1
Shostakovich Piano Concerto 2 Movement 2
Schreiner The Worried Drummer (AWESOME percussion concerto >.>)
Aforementioned aria from Marriage of Figaro
Another aria which escapes my mind (Phoebe Russell's brother!)
A timpani concerto which escapes my mind...
A flute concerto which escapes my mind...
A cello concerto which escapes my mind...
A trumpet concerto which escapes my mind...

We went a bit overboard with having three 20 minute piano concertos last year, though, given that we only had a term to rehearse.  Managed to pull them off in the end, but only barely (we literally played through the Tchaikovsky only once in its entirety before the concert)...

[the.watchman]

Daniel Le is a champion
I didn't know he was MHS

[EvangelionZeta]

Daniel Le is a champion
I didn't know he was MHS

MGS, not MHS, haha.  :p  He's music captain this year!

[the.watchman]

Daniel Le is a champion
I didn't know he was MHS

MGS, not MHS, haha.  :p  He's music captain this year!

OOPS, I meant to write MGS :idiot2:
He is one heck of a pianist

[appianway]

I need to know more pianists...

The closest I'm going to get to playing a concerto this year at school is Tango Ballet. I guess in strings we usually do some concertos though - we did this arrangement of a Vivaldi concert (which wasn't arranged) going into Black Dog last year, and in year 10 I played spring. Out of all of the seasons, my teacher had to choose spring... *sigh*

[the.watchman]

I need to know more pianists...

The closest I'm going to get to playing a concerto this year at school is Tango Ballet. I guess in strings we usually do some concertos though - we did this arrangement of a Vivaldi concert (which wasn't arranged) going into Black Dog last year, and in year 10 I played spring. Out of all of the seasons, my teacher had to choose spring... *sigh*

LOL, I've (sort-of) been offered a spot for next year, so I'd like to take up the May concert (our September concert is too close to VCE IMO)
I'm tossing up a few options, but they have to be easy for the orch

[appianway]

Play the Bruch.