So far, I have only played a few styles of music in my approximately-8 years of playing - some rags, some jazz and blues, but for the most part classical. Recently, I have been polishing some pieces for a recital with a senior in high school who will be playing for about a half hour, and I will be playing for another half hour. It's on June 5th at Saint John's Methodist Church in SFe (I believe...not quite sure), but I am still working very hard on them. The pieces are as follows:
Nocturne (by Edvard Grieg)
Bells Ringing (also by Edvard Grieg)
Waltz in B Flat Major (by Franz Schubert)
Rondo Alla Turca (by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Minuet in G (by Ignace Paderewski)
Puck (another by Edvard Grieg)
Here are some pictures of the composers in my recital: (in order: Mozart, Grieg, Schubert, and Paderewski)
Personally, I think Paderewski has the COOLEST HAIR!!! (out of all of them, at least...)
Hey Karen! So, I was just wondering, are there any really cool piano pieces that would be good to practice ballet to?
ReplyDeleteDear Fiona,
ReplyDeleteSome good ballet composers that are said to be good to practice to are Pyotr Tchaikovsky, George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, and Aaron Copland. Personally, as far as the music itself goes, I like Copland and Gershwin, and it seems like their pieces would be pretty good to dance ballet to, due to the constantly changing emotions in them. Here, check out this link (well, not really a link, but you should copy and paste the website):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1o65tCZTWA
ENJOY!!! I hope my answer was sufficient!
That's a cool song, but it's kinda slow! :) That's okay though. It sounds like it would be more of a song for a ballet dance, but not really for doing a step at the barre, which is where you warm up. Here, I'll give a link (not really a link) to an example of a song you would practice ballet to. But thanks for putting up the song! I liked the song itself a lot! Anyway, here's a "link":
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oapNj-wVlmo
Cool! That's very interesting. So do you normally practice to piano music, or could it be music similar to the music in the link, but with a full orchestra, or maybe a different instruments? I could definitely see you and your ballet class dancing to it with the teacher saying "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight, and one..." :D Anyway, glad you liked the link, and thanks for commenting and posting the link!
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