Förster Friday Fun - Scarlatti's Smile

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  • Опубликовано: 2 янв 2025

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  • @DavidMiller-bp7et
    @DavidMiller-bp7et 3 месяца назад

    Here's hoping you can reprise another September in the Rain and September Song before September is gone. I brought out my Rain again arr. Brent Edstrom. It features a LH with detached rhythms which simulates falling rain/teardrops against a right hand carrying tune. B material is walking bass riff, more bold, on the tune in LH, jazz treatment. So tender, sentimental, wistful, a touch sad with season as metaphor for passing life, love and loss. "To every word of love I heard you whisper, the raindrops seemed to play a sweet refrain." Brent's arr. builds in his take on that "refrain." Effective tone painting. Hope you can get to it this month.

  • @DavidMiller-bp7et
    @DavidMiller-bp7et 3 месяца назад

    Some input inspirations.
    ruclips.net/video/j1M6mSIDV7o/видео.html
    Slow and languid; people talk about Johnny but consider Erroll's perfect accompaniment
    ruclips.net/video/fk-jh3xocd0/видео.html
    Dinah's more uptempo classic; I first encountered in on the hit parade in 1962
    ruclips.net/video/7iVjcMDPC14/видео.html
    Sarah Vaughn in Sweden 1959. A very youthful 35. She also played piano; I just got her piano/vocal arr. of September Song.
    Doing my bit for the pianosphere. Few these days compare to your improvs.

  • @DavidMiller-bp7et
    @DavidMiller-bp7et 4 месяца назад

    You are one wild and crazy woman with your hijinx on the black and whites. You once described another channel host as "she is full of imagination!" In my, now rather extensive milking of internet piano fare, I find no other player can match you for adventure and command of your piano persona to pull it off. Mortensen contends that the most original music now comes from improvs on original settled material. He is the foremost online proponent/formal teacher of improvisation development. I may watch this again as I just noticed the "show transcript" mode and often your own voice does not register with me clearly. However, you are good at extroverting your emotions all the time.
    Your new thumbnail photo is very telling at catching you as your really are. Very nice smile, bright and playful pose, look is attractive, very important. Pegs you as a playful extrovert.
    The cam angle does not feature your RH much, I assume that you are RH dominant. We see the LH very clearly. You are more on your fingertips than I have past seen, sitting typically high, even leaning back when more distance needed from shoulders to hands, keeps the arms in decided slope down, supports more verticality of hands, as needed. You keep a small hand which means you move properly, don't stretch for positions, ulnar deviation is minimal, only as absolutely necessary, before immediately reverting to the small, inline hand position. One thing I've noticed over the past year is how much the L pinky has developed; the big muscle on the outside of the palm is now bulging, showing itself to such good effect, strong downstroke with arm weight with Ms. Pinky. Really beautiful hand positions.
    Interpretively, you have few peers, even now at your age. You appear in complete command of what you are doing, using most all of the keyboard just as freely as closer in placements. The variety and fresh vitality of of what you do, call it, "rework it and take it somewhere else" so naturally, withour seeming effort, is a marvel. We can't wait to see what flows from your fertile mind, and are never disappointed. You hold the observer in your compelling adventure. You are becoming a very, very fine player and performer, and your musical sensibilities are so free and brilliant one can easily imagine a matching career of composing and arranging your inspirations for posterity and enjoyment, on paper, but they might even dance around, play hide and go seek, on paper/digital scores.
    You are not only technically proficient, your playing always has gravitas, even when playful, call it guts, earthy, it is never dillitantish or shallow; always connected to who you are. You may call it "emotional" but it is also impressive physicality.
    I so enjoy and look forward to your Friday releases. I'm not just a fan, but you are in a sense a teacher, as I watch closely what you do and see how that works for me. So, your performances in this intimate setting is a teaching/learning resource also. I just may have some ability to articulate my observations. "Brava, molto brillante!" You are in a class by yourself, a unique creature in a world of mostly imitators.
    Molto Impressionato

    • @Starritt_Piano
      @Starritt_Piano  4 месяца назад +1

      My intro was this:
      Ciao tutti, mi chiamo Domenico Scarlatti!!! Posso avere un cornetto per favore??? I hope to do more vids on my phone as well after my birthday, I’m asking for a proper phone stand rather than the little flimsy wooden one I have at the moment!!! I’ll then have a reliable backup plan as well as my laptop which is getting on a bit!!!

    • @DavidMiller-bp7et
      @DavidMiller-bp7et 4 месяца назад

      @@Starritt_Piano Your hands have become really beautiful, smooth, consistent, strong and very efficicient. I've started sitting another 3 " higher on my circular stool just in the last week. I raised up 3 inches from very inefficient and unhealthy about 3 years ago. If I change my height again; it won't be down. Seems very efficient right now; learning the new angles for this. I'm admiring, wish you could see him, Erroll Garner, sits so high and his fingers glide over the keyboard like on ice slick.
      You have a big future, kid; my race is also "getting on a bit." Still very active; on 10/12 I'll be 78 years young; Happy early Halloween.

    • @DavidMiller-bp7et
      @DavidMiller-bp7et 4 месяца назад

      @@Starritt_Piano We live in a wonderful time-re: piano, we can avail ourselves of some of the best teaching on the planet. I'm seeing, now, Lang Lang, on a channel talking about playing, not much actual demo, just talking about different general considerations, practicing, relaxation, ....also, I Perelman talking fiddle but also music in general, practicing, etc. When guys like that talk, people interested in achieving excellence should be listening and employing their advice. Again, wonderful time to be alive on many accounts. I could not have made the piano progress I have in the last 6 years without the very helpful teachers I have bumped into online. And some players, like yourself. Wonderful to see you grow into an outsized performer and creative interpreter. Your schtick is what Mortensen considers the cutting edge of original new music. He is worth listening to, also, on many accounts. Keep the faith, in yourself and a logical universe where peace ambassadors are valued.