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musical diaries: existential, emotional day in the life of a pianist
I don't think anyone would argue against you being an artist, but artists who are RUclips presences do eventually end up self-sabotaging themselves into being more of an entertainer to capture a broader audience and to maintain a consistent stream of uploads. And thus, the world ends up shaping the artist more than the artist ends up shaping the world. I respect that you choose to speak at your own pace and choose individuality over genericism.
I've been thinking of this RUclips issue since 2021, but hesitant to state this publicly. Thank you for understanding exactly this point and appreciating what I do 🙏
@@TiffanyPoonpianist I second their comment
I concur.@@mapowey
@@TiffanyPoonpianistTiffany. Knowing when to pause, rest and meditate. Slow the roller coaster down for a bit. Consider and think. In my eyes you are a brilliant, gifted artist with a passion for classical music and sharing that. Prioritize sometimes bite size chunks are better. If I were your big brother sometimes I would say ‘sis’ slow down a bit, give your brain a pause and relax. Take a moment to look be grateful for the beauty of nature and again RELAX. A mind uncluttered with overthinking, worrying is a mind easier focused. Anyway just some thoughts. Sending you good thoughts and wishes for your peace and joy. ✝️🙏🏻❤️🎼🎹🤗☺️
I don't agree. There is a piano player named vkgoeswild, and she does many covers for various artists. She tours and does concerts. I don't see her trying to entertain people by going outside of her very high piano skills. She creates sheet music and has a patreon page. Many people use youtube to generate interest to other pages. I don't know the context of this discussion, only responding to the comment about youtube corrupting artists, which doesn't have to be the case.
I think the Schumann Fantasy is one of the greatest piano pieces. The more I listen to his music the more I recognize its brilliance.
"I'm an artist first.. Well, maybe a human first. But then sometimes I also forget to eat..!" this is the best sentence I heard in 2023, should be the subtitle of your diaries! 😁Honestly though, to be able to encounter concepts and ideas is what makes us human, and it's a precious quality. But as in practicing piano, it can be stressful or unsettling when we are thinking to much about a precise point, I believe it creates difficulty and makes us feel kinda lost. We have to keep a certain balance between consciousness and "spontaneous genius" in our spiritual life as in practicing musicality. It's counterproductive to try to define an idea or a feeling, their consistence and limits, by the way maybe we don't even need to append a name on those..?🤔So, keep wandering with a careless mind, aesthetics happens by itself when we let it flow!☺
This video made me shed a little tear. It made me remember so much from my past and how I used to feel. And to see someone who I can relate to on human level is so amazing to me. I'm 'only' 16, but still... I honestly feel very scared for my future, though I'm trying to keep striving. Thank you Tiffany.
🥺 I remember how tough and confusing being 16 was sometimes. I also still feel scared at times 10 years later... We're in this together. Be kind, keep striving, fellow human 🤎
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You are doing a great job. Thank you for producing and sharing.
I like your squirrel and hawk shots.
My mother graduated from the Calhoun School in 1940. During her early years, she studied ballet with the great Michael Foquin. Thanks for bringing it all back
I have been following you for the last year when i stumbled on your Utube Moon night Sonata and was thrilled at that young lady playing my fathers favorite piece. I started searching out your earlier posts and through them I have been watching an artist grow and question, trying to see the unseen, Thank you for taking the time to do this open diary
Hello Tiffany, I just discovered you through DW Classical Music on a Google feed. Thank you for sharing your amazing gift as a classical pianist. 😊
I cry only a few times a year. I remember when you got that Steinway. A month later, listening to your livestream while washing my dishes, I suddenly stopped everything when you made it cry and by the time I reached my laptop you were crying too. I didn't know I could ever hear this through all the layers of encryption. So today I got emotional when I understood it would leave and I shed a tear when it left. It was a good piano for you.
I’m a student about to start college auditions, been feeling pretty existential as of late & this was very affirming. I hope u know how valued u & ur work are
I love how you inspire me to continue to study piano! Every time I watch your videos, I just wanna get in to my room, sit on my piano and play, study and live that. Thanks for everything! I'm here cheering for you and I hope I can see you personaly one day!
Lovely video. Being a human that chooses to persist, being an artist that chooses to go on - they're both an act of faith. Faith in a future that is better than the present and the courage to confront the challenges that come with transforming it to something more ideal. Thank you for posting. And don't forget to eat.
we missed you, tiffany!!
Missed you all, too ❣️
Tiffany pond ❤
Thank you for sharing
Day in the life pianist
God bless
Producer Chico Black ❤
Enjoyed this vlog, and as always, even after all these years, you’ve maintained your honesty and the authenticity comes through every time. You consistently share not only music but also philosophy that keeps us grounded. It remains a genuine pleasure and a privilege to be able to follow you on your human-pianist journey and to continue to be inspired by such an incredible accomplisher. (Is this even a word?)
I’ve been a long time fan and your work has always inspired me to not only seek growth but to own myself (flaws and all) I truly appreciate you sharing your life with us and making a career in classical music performance so genuine,human and relatable ❤
Nice to see you again and I hope that all goes well. It may also help those who also like to play piano.
I love music and I'm glad I found your channel to learn more about classical music and it's performers and writers. Cool channel.
You’re voice is so calm and relaxing i just love it :))
"Both software developers and classical pianists lead very solitary lives."
Wow i was just remembering you earlier and rewatched some videos at work a few hours ago, and now a new video when i get home! Been needing this lately, when feeling overwhelmed and lost in which direction to go with piano. Your thoughts and reflections on how you navigate things are especially therapeutic during these times
Please bring back your 'Under The Piano' podcast! I love it🥲
Your emotions are contagious 😢
Nice to hear you again, have fun with the trio, sounding great already!
Every day, we wake up where we are and who we are. Reflect if you need, but plan you must. Thank you for sharing your journey.
Sharing your existence with someone is not just being physically present at the same time as someone else. Sharing our existence is sharing our feelings. Our joys, sadness, security, fears, our beauty, our ugliness. You already share a lot with us. Thank you very much. There are feelings that can only be expressed through music and art. The cerebral abstraction called language alone is not enough.
she has grown less actor like in front of the camera. relaxed. I like the edit and sync on the short phrases. I too have a tendency to stop short. thankfully my ever abundant (and never not passing through) attention seeker likes to finish unfinished quotes. thanks for the reminder of what New York and her ever churning mechanism can do for those given a helpful path in the arts.
great to see you're still working and sharing your feelings and talent with us all. very much appreciated. thank you.
Thank you for the effort that you put into every video Tiffany!
I hope you have a peaceful, happy next couple of weeks(:
I thoroughly enjoyed the video. You look and sound awesome & happy. Really cool editing job!
Thank you !!!!
Do remember to eat Tiffany ! I think you are amazing to make a gift to us in this way ! A new musical piece for us to enjoy, listen to, study and share with Tiffany !
Sir Edmund Hillary said in 1952 this after being the first man to summit Everest: “It’s not the mountain we conquer, it’s ourselves” Tiffany, you are on your climb, keep going and reach your summit.
❤❤❤ Great informative video…🙏 Thanks…
you're a great inspiration Tiffany!
18:49: Always enjoy your videos, I've been looping Mozart's concertos and sonatas for years, and it always drives me nuts when I hit the reused segments, it's like I suddenly think I'm somewhere else. He'd probably find it incredibly amusing how technology enables even casual listeners to pick up on these time-saving, compositional cheats.
Since I watched your livestream on Patreon I know a little more background about the piano😉. Personally I like the sound of vintage S&S (found them in churches where we service organs, and think they have a distinct 'personality'). I'm feeling truly happy for you that you got one of those, and look forward to seeing you sharing musical adventures with your new friend.
Nice to see you again - have missed you. So... why did old piano have to leave and new one in its place? Weird how attached to things we get. I am having to say good-bye to a post office box I've had for 10 years - very emotional as to why. So weird to feel attached to that. Looking forward to hearing more from you.
Thanks for continuing to share your journey, however often, it is always unique and interesting. Won’t be able to attend the fundraiser but will send a contribution. Aside from whatever else TWG is up to, the CB videos are very good. Hope you get a chance, if so inclined, to tell us more about that new piano.
Waiting on the ANNOUNCEMENT! Off to view the DW Doc. Have a Happy Healthy Holiday Season.
Love your videos Tiffany, a fellow musician, also hope everything is going well I see your channel has a default icon hope everything's okay:) happy thanksgiving! thank you for your videos!!
Where is your concert again and how to reserve a seat? I would definitely go.
Hope to see you there :) www.togetherwithclassical.org/events
Thanks for the Tellyschool.😂.
Schumann. the smile in the "of course", Wonderful. Greetings from a midnightconcert in the swiss mountains and Bolero.
"Be a human first, then an artist." Man, I really needed to hear this, thank you. Don't forget to eat :P
Glad that you are back.
Dear Tiffany, you have given me a gift in being able to listen to you play. I haven't even paid you any money. I think of what I can offer you, in return. Here it is: many of your existential questions, dilemmas, etc. can be relieved, answered, in the traditional Catholic faith. Thank you! My favorite piece you play: Moonlight Sonata.
What a beautiful video this is. ❤
Hearing parts of the Schumann Piano Trio in d minor reminds me slightly of the first movement Rach 3( Again, I’m not a pianist but I found it interesting).
I CRY everytime I hear someone play that Schumann-Liszt liede. Van Cliburn is so missed ! Liszt gave us 56 of these songs.I wonder did he have access to the Sonatas and quartets ? What did the 19th century get to discover about Schubert .
The widmung made me cry. 😢
Best way to get out of a funk is to learn a new piece! 😊
Be well and be happy Tiffany!
I first saw your videos in 2019-2020 with your vlogs about New York (because I like New York) and Steinway piano playing when I got interested in acoustic pianos in general. I was already aware that classical music doesn't have as much of an audience as the mainstream stuff so I understood that I shouldn't be watching with a hyped up feeling and just watch to relax and vibe. Also, I don't think it's narcissistic to think about us remembering and thinking about you, it's normal. First, from a "living on Earth" perspective you want usually your loved ones to remember the cool stuff and nice things you did for them. And second, an artist is not popular unless the fans keep the name and legacy going! We keep you up! I remember showing my coworkers that majority of professional piano players don't make INSANE money, I showed my coworkers Lang Lang salary for example and how he has sponsorship deals and he's like the top 1%, and I showed other examples including yourself which shows you can still make money with professional piano playing but it is highly competitive and there are years of mastery to it. I clarified to my coworkers that you [Tiffany] play really well and have your RUclips channel to make revenue so it did make my coworkers think and really see what its like and not just assume things like "no one listens to classical music" or something. They liked the fact you had 300K subscribers and that was cool as it is.
Enjoyed this quite a bit.
I can relate to having to part with your piano, I once lived in a small appartment too, had a Petrof Model 125 upright (which is a great instrument by the way) and cannot say that the neighbours were very happy with it, so after a couple of months traded it in for a Yamaha Clavinova. I regret it to this day. Should have kept it and had a Disklavier system built in.
Watching Mr Sokolovs rendition. He is amazing
My mother told me once: "You're thinking too much." 🙂
Do not think you are your talent! you are your kindness , compassion and experience the doubts and uncertainties of the future…remember that and help others also on the way….Be less intellectual and find another word for existential and speak to all of us. Non musicians or non-philosophers but humans who have the same strivings and struggles….You have much to give on many levels.
Life itself is existential -- and life itself is the greatest miracle there is. To be a truly silent witness is also the ultimate freedom and highest joy. Sometimes we see it in artists playing. Be yourself.
The infinite that we have to live is always a wounded infinite. And that is a good thing. The questions "Who am I willing to love?", "To what extent am I available for trust?", "How am I willing to embrace life in its tears and in its convulsions?" have tattooed a question that we do not see, that we rarely think about, but that is intrinsic to everything, precisely to everything that we are: "For what things do I feel capable of suffering?". And this has nothing to do with some confused self-sacrificial masochism. Rather, it is the other way around. Where we read "to suffer" we mean "to live", to invest our desire and effort gratuitously, to listen deeply, to accompany us step by step with unconditional love, to give our lives. Just as the seed does when it sinks into the earth, where it is as if it were dying, and thus takes the risk of mortgaging and transmuting its own existence in order to bear new fruit.Can we think about life in any other way? We certainly can. And unfortunately many (out of fear, out of selfishness, out of insecurity) deal with it from that perspective. But that's not life. There will always remain, even if well camouflaged, an apparent life, mutilated in some fundamental dimensions, a life to be realized. An adventure that has only been sketched out. A gift that never became one.
Tip2: Beware of excessive introspection. It is crazy-making.
Dibs on the piano screwed into the ceiling one day. 4. it is possible.
Hello Tiffany, I'm Semih from Istanbul. I discovered you about a month ago while researching the Steinway Spirio Model B and watching videos of you setting it up in your apartment. I wanted to show those videos to my family today after returning home, but I couldn't find them on RUclips. Did you remove them?
(Edit: Maybe I should’ve watched the video before commenting I just got to the part where u said your diaries are made to be read by people so this probably doesn’t apply at all 😅)
I’m not through the whole video but I wanted to say this before I forget about it. You said that when you reread you diaries you relive the emotions again, which can be very taxing on the body/soul and I used to go through that as well, but I realized something that’s helped me a lot with that, and I don’t know if this will work for anyone else, but I just wanted to mention it just in case it does. Basically the way I see it is that the urge to document our lives and write in diaries comes from not being able to express ourselves properly so we use writing as an outlet of those emotions, which is very helpful but as you said, reading your old diaries makes you relive it somehow, so what I do is write in a completely unintelligible way so if I ever go back and try to read it it would prove to be very difficult, now when I go through my old stuff, I don’t feel those emotions anymore because i don’t even know what I’m writing. It’s a very weird way of doing it, but I personally think that diaries aren’t meant to be read, not even by us. Sorrry for rambling on and on I’m bad at getting to the point but yea good luck!
Timeline-wise 😊
You were a Philosophy major so it doesn’t surprise me that your a deep thinker. Idle time (your mind is never idle) the devil’s workshop…..keep busy….have your agent schedule more recitals even small ones.
I don't know why I still sense you are moving away of NYC or even the States in general.. Looking forward for the big announcement!
What is the name of the piece starting at 9:55?
Schumann-Liszt Widmung S.566
New upload 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Palmistry may tell you are in good hands. Don't relive your crises. You look good👍 Your best is yet to come🙏
What is the name of the piece at 10:05? For some reason it's completely slipped my mind and it's driving me insane.
Schumann-Liszt Widmung S.566
@@murdo_mck Oh of course thank you!
O Tiffany , what’s this i see in my RUclips home page “ DW documentary on the one and only Tiffany Poon “ plus “ her “ one and only “ 😮 Roberto
Merci ! For one coffee or a chocolat or what u would like 😊
changes of many
in a season
changing / been changed quite a lot.
change makes you uncomfortable ;
discomfort leads or may lead to something new
AND that something New
should be good for you
as well as the audience. ~i guess
If would you, knowing (2time-,,famos song[mere early to written])as,sadness, and so far
A few thoughts:
Time Off - Everyone needs it. Post on inspiration, not on obligation. I think everyone would rather see inspiration any day.
Emotions - I think that I am the first male in 2.5 billion years to realize that females feel things differently (being more geared toward love and reproduction, and all that that entails) (like security) (it is my theory, but I think it is impossible to test). How do males feel things (if you are curious)? Like smashing things (maybe that's why we build things :/ ) (sorry, but we are brutes!)... yet maybe that is cluelessness (as my philosophy defines it) at work (which is fixable) (so says I)...
Existential - Now you are into philosophy (oh yes, your degree!) (and note that future philosophy will be better than the past, having learned from its failures).
Existential Crisis - Having an existential crisis? Go back to your basics (when you said 'you just want to play') (or when you said that you only care about two things: your playing and your charities). RUclips offers you the venue to play and be heard (and be watched). Playing live is another matter (easy at the low end, difficult (competition) at the high).
Catching Up on Old Videos - While you were taking a break from RUclips (and other social media? I wouldn't know), one tends to catch up on old videos (unless WE need a break!). So nice rendition of La Campenella (one of your old videos that was featured) (at least to me)... (and note that to me, as a composition, the piece seems more like a sports piece (proving one's physical agility) than an art piece (exploring deep intellect and emotions), and note that future music will be better than that of the past (if it builds on it), therefore, don't look toward popular music for that 'better', that perennially tunnel-visioned industry is at a true eternal nadir now, one that it will never get out of (which has been woefully said for the past 3000 years, no doubt). Need sleep now. Sweet dreams (I will try to imagine your (ever elusive to a male) female feelings)...
Diaries - Note that that has been my go-to venue (writing, not diaries) when working through mental and emotional matters. I did try to keep a diary once in my life (teen years) when I wasn't writing (which now serves thinking, which, if I had to place anything before the piano, that would be it)...
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Bro i need motivation, post more videos please. Danke
Sis, they're coming... Danke
What an amazing reply..a work of art, I envy your charisma hahaha@@TiffanyPoonpianist
hi mate!
we missed you mommy .
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE
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This older piano is so much better than the other new built model B you had. Not sure how it sounded in real life but on recording that thing was so generic and outright annoying....it's like Steinway has forgotten how to make a decent piano....
I must say, I don't enjoy eating sounds :D
Tiffany why are you crying I always watch your channel and I know how you feel I was once alone if this comment gives you any comfort know that you are not alone if you accept Jesus you will never be alone accept him today and we can go on this exciting journey together join me for an exciting adventure to follow Jesus Christ he will never leave you nor forsake you I know it happend to me I say these things because I love you as a brother in Christ I am trying to reach your inner most being let's be friends and love one an other in Christ try it you might like it if you need a church try the Baptist church they will teach you every thing about christiany love in Christ your friend Mike
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原來紐約都有維他奶賣
維他奶！
Your feet are too big. (That should snap you out of your existential funk, you're welcome ☺)
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
finally Steinways took back the piano you never deserved
I've been following your musical journey from the days when "Be kind' got added to your catchphrase. Thanks for the update. Your playing goes straight to the heart.
My mom said she had no time to be depressed with 5 children…You’ll look back, and wonder why all the worry? Be in the present and look around at what you have. Later you will see how many wonderful things are hidden in even brief encounters. Drop the word existential and you’ll probably feel much better. “Existential quest, existential journal entries, existential day….quiet the mind, forgive yourself for anything, you do not have to know the future, understand anything….just live the mysteries of life with its joy and sufferings. Meaning of life is always the present in front of you….appreciate…..peace….❤
I just want to say, as a music student, an artist, you are such an inspiration to me. You give me such hope, in pursuing a music career, because through this channel you simulate a life I want to approach, so thank you. Your videos are such a gift to me and to others ❤
This video is very relatable. I've lived in the same neighborhood since I was a child too and have many nostalgic days, reminding me how pleasantly simple things were. Although in addition to the nostalgia, I also experience feelings of pride and progress having been exposed to many more artistries, experiences and incredible people since then, which I hope in many people, like me, would be fuel to excel even further and broaden one's horizon even more.
After the patreon stream this morning, I felt a little sad for Young Mr. Piano too. Even through the screen, I can appreciate the time you two spent together, and I am glad he got a little send off in the video. I am sure he will remember you fondly, and I hope his story goes on to new and wonderful things like I know yours will.
I'd definitely go to the concert if I was in your area. You play beautifully.
The journey of life is a fascinating one.
I have not been watching much lately due to a busy life but tiff you really have inspired many of us. Even though I have lost my way with the piano, I wish you nothing but joy!!