Home » Discussion Forums » Blog Post Discussion » Lots of Loud Noise
| Lots of Loud Noise [message #12157] |
Fri, 27 February 2009 19:31  |
 |
 Black Bear
Messages: 3216
Registered: September 2008
Location: Indianapolis, IN USA |
Senior Member
[Moderator] |
|
|
Robin's made Lots of Loud Noise here!
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
|
|
|
| Re: Lots of Loud Noise [message #12162 is a reply to message #12157 ] |
Fri, 27 February 2009 19:50  |
|
The main thing that happens when I set off in musical company is total panic. Which is boring and dumb. I’m sure I’d like playing in company if I could ever get past the automatic nervous breakdown stage.
Best got over with lots of practise even though it makes you feel sick sick sick (sorry, just rereading Eloise!) Congratulations on tying your flag to the mast - waiting to hear how it goes
sending chocolate-y good wishes, and congratulations to the hellhounds (plus extra tummy rubs - yes, I know just what you mean! Not a problem with Hazel's undercarriage lol)
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
|
|
| |
| Re: Lots of Loud Noise [message #12164 is a reply to message #12157 ] |
Fri, 27 February 2009 20:01 |
|
| Quote: |
And next Friday I’m going to take the freller in and poke the hard first part in front of Oisin’s nose and say ‘play that. I’ve got the second part covered.’
You read it here.
|
Yeah! Go girl. *waves pom pomps*
...I knew bells were addictive and dangerous if one were to fall on you, but even without hundreds of pounds of metal crashing through the floors to crush you? Still that dangerous?
*awe and admiration*
Smooshes!
|
|
|
| Re: Lots of Loud Noise [message #12170 is a reply to message #12157 ] |
Fri, 27 February 2009 20:19 |
judith
Messages: 246
Registered: October 2008
Location: United States |
Senior Member |
|
|
| Quote: |
D’you remember that I yearn, in a feeble, foolish sort of way, for some other blundering, incapable quasi-musician to play with? I have one friend and one relative who live just slightly too far away for this to be feasible, and apparently all of Oisin’s other students are either going to the Royal Academy or sane enough to keep their skeletons in their own closets. Feh. So unsporting of them. What’s a blundering incapable quasi-musician to do?
|
Yeah, that's one of the best parts about performing music -- doing it with other people. (It's also extremely FRUSTRATING when you do it with people who don't do it up to your standards, or who are much better than you and you know you are letting them down, but then you know all about that from bell-ringing.) I've never had ambitions as a solo singer; all I ever wanted to do was to be a member of a chorus of COMPETENT, DEDICATED singers. It's frustrating working with people of various levels of ability, commitment, and energy, and one's own commitment and energy inevitably flag, making one into one of the bad guys unless one finds heroic methods to motivate one's self...
But I'd think that even playing duets, or in string quartets, or any group smaller than a full-blown symphony would have to give similar satisfaction. When it's right, it's WAY more ecstatic than the best sex imaginable.
So, my dear: I hope you manage to find some musical partners! Or at least one. How about a singer? Accompanying a single instrumentalist? Etc.? I'll never forget watching Martha Argerich at the piano and Charles Dutoit on the podium in Philadelphia in March of 2000, grinning at each other between movements of the Prokofiev 3rd Piano Concerto like excited children; they were formerly married to each other and still good friends, and clearly were able to read each other like their own bodies. That's what it's all about.
|
|
|
| Re: Lots of Loud Noise [message #12171 is a reply to message #12157 ] |
Fri, 27 February 2009 20:23 |
skating librarian
Messages: 571
Registered: October 2008
Location: Vermont |
Senior Member |
|
|
Gosh, banging on the piano and ringing bells ... you must be feeling better. Yeah!
Maybe I'll find the Apple Butter tomorrow. I think I stuck it in the freezer when the renovations destroyed the kitchen cabinets.
My oven is back on line and I've made 15 lbs. of Swedish meatballs (including a batch of vegan gluten free), a big pan of brownies, two lemon pound cakes and two loaves of oatmeal whole wheat bread. Of course most of it went off to church ...
I think y' all might like it (our UU church) .... no bells, but great piano (jazz and show tunes sometimes) ... we've been known to have a (fair trade/organic) chocolate communion ... and each spring we have a flower communion which culminates in dancing around a may-pole/Swedish mid-summer pole completely decorated in fresh flowers.
Flowers ... something to dream about ... although the snow is beginning to sink, and I have to admit that spring is a possibility.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
|
|
|
| Re: Lots of Loud Noise [message #12173 is a reply to message #12157 ] |
Fri, 27 February 2009 21:07 |
|
It never fails to tickle me that music mesmerizes you the way it does. =)
I wish I was able to help; I would love to go to England and play piano duets with you. Hell, I want to go to England and learn how to ring bells now. It sounds by all accounts similar to being on a bass drum line, which is one of the most amazing experiances I have EVER had in life. Not too many bell towers out here in California though.... but luckily, many drum lines.
|
|
| |
| Re: Lots of Loud Noise [message #12183 is a reply to message #12177 ] |
Sat, 28 February 2009 08:10 |
|
| Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 28 February 2009 02:04 |
There are dust antelope, dust walruses, dust asteroids in my house, all of them illogical.
Not just in your house. Add "in inexplicable quantities" and you'll have my house down pat.
|
My mom has a little sign in her house that says "Dust Testing In Progress - Please Do Not Disturb Samples" with a picture of a woman wearing a labcoat on it...
"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
|
|
| | |
| Re: Lots of Loud Noise [message #12200 is a reply to message #12170 ] |
Sat, 28 February 2009 17:38 |
Jeanne Marie
Messages: 320
Registered: October 2008
Location: Kansas City |
Senior Member |
|
|
| judith wrote on Fri, 27 February 2009 19:19 |
| Quote: |
D’you remember that I yearn, in a feeble, foolish sort of way, for some other blundering, incapable quasi-musician to play with? I have one friend and one relative who live just slightly too far away for this to be feasible, and apparently all of Oisin’s other students are either going to the Royal Academy or sane enough to keep their skeletons in their own closets. Feh. So unsporting of them. What’s a blundering incapable quasi-musician to do?
|
Yeah, that's one of the best parts about performing music -- doing it with other people. (It's also extremely FRUSTRATING when you do it with people who don't do it up to your standards, or who are much better than you and you know you are letting them down, but then you know all about that from bell-ringing.) I've never had ambitions as a solo singer; all I ever wanted to do was to be a member of a chorus of COMPETENT, DEDICATED singers. It's frustrating working with people of various levels of ability, commitment, and energy, and one's own commitment and energy inevitably flag, making one into one of the bad guys unless one finds heroic methods to motivate one's self...
But I'd think that even playing duets, or in string quartets, or any group smaller than a full-blown symphony would have to give similar satisfaction. When it's right, it's WAY more ecstatic than the best sex imaginable.
So, my dear: I hope you manage to find some musical partners! Or at least one. How about a singer? Accompanying a single instrumentalist? Etc.? I'll never forget watching Martha Argerich at the piano and Charles Dutoit on the podium in Philadelphia in March of 2000, grinning at each other between movements of the Prokofiev 3rd Piano Concerto like excited children; they were formerly married to each other and still good friends, and clearly were able to read each other like their own bodies. That's what it's all about.
|
This makes me want to live closer, so i could be a supportive quasi-musician - I've always wanted to learn to play Celtic harp, but don't have the wherewithal (e.g., FUNDS) to tackle that, so I tootle away on recorders now and again, but how fun would it be to play recorder to your piano, eh?! I also echo Judith's love of chorus singing. I'm a "let's shut up and sing now, OK?" kind of chorister, and things have been way too dramatic in the Symphony Chorus this year for my taste. Hopefully, things will be calmer for this next concert, now that we have the new director semi-broken-down, er IN, that is...
Love to hear about your musical enjoyments!
Smiles,
Jeanne Marie
|
|
|
| Re: Lots of Loud Noise [message #12232 is a reply to message #12200 ] |
Sun, 01 March 2009 07:54 |
dances-with-needles
Messages: 38
Registered: February 2009
Location: Colorado, in the north |
Member |
|
|
I remember both singing rounds and playing violin with groups. Yes, lots of fun and yes somewhat a problem. It always took me a lot of time to do it well because I kept getting confused by the group sound and the sound that I should be making in it. After a while people who knew me would go over my part and let me listen to what I should sound like so that when there were several kinds of noise going on I could listen to and make mine fit. I always did have a disconnect between the notes on a page and the sound in my ear. I can still play penny whistle by ear but not very well by note.
Dances
|
|
| | | |
| Re: Lots of Loud Noise [message #12284 is a reply to message #12260 ] |
Sun, 01 March 2009 20:13 |
 |
Bratsche
Messages: 269
Registered: October 2008
Location: Washington State, USA |
Senior Member |
|
|
| Robin wrote on Sun, 01 March 2009 15:13 |
It really doesn't drive you up a wall, playing a duet with a student in meltdown? I just don't know any other way to stop melting down except doing over and over it UNTIL I stop. I mean, presumably I *will* stop eventually . . . she says doubtfully. . . .
|
No it doesn't drive me up a wall. Part of my pleasure as a teacher is to be able to reassure my students that they are making progress, especially when they feel that there's no end in sight for whatever they're struggling through. I can see the progress they make because: A) I'm not in the middle of the struggle and work (as they are) and B) I've seen the overall shape of work-turning-into-ability of many people over the years. In my experience, ability comes first, then confidence gradually arrives, then later on trust in yourself in general comes (or least sticks a paw or a nose through the door). And that progression applies to the smallest parts of the learning as well as the whole grand scheme. I have never met anyone who couldn't learn and get better (in my case on viola), and it's my joy to support someone who's struggling and cheer on (point out, guide) their progress.
The most dramatic example of this is an adult student I have who started with me some years ago. She had never played a musical instrument. She shook so much at her first few months of lessons that I wondered if she had palsy or some other physical issue. It turned out that she was just really, really nervous but bravely kept coming to the lessons. She now plays with a local community orchestra and has continued to get much braver (as well as better) over the years.
So, from across an ocean..... *cheer* Yay, Robin, hang in there!
Wendy
(the woodsman guide through the deep, dark viola forest)
P.S. I tend to grin quite gleefully at your comments about what not to tell teachers or what Oisin has done to (errr...for) you at a given lesson. He sounds like a good teacher to me.
|
|
| | |
| |
  |
Goto Forum:
Current Time: Thu May 23 17:39:10 EDT 2013
Total time taken to generate the page: 0.04771 seconds |
Members
Search
Help
Register
Login
Home
