Leben macht manchmal Spaß
Piano lessons are now changed to Mondays, and I think this works perfectly well for me. Or maybe it’s just the weather. There’s lesson this late afternoon, but the weather was pretty rainy and NOT SUNNY, so that’s a plus. Lesson was fun and enlightening; I ended up with an almost cramp right hand. Lol. This shows I still have a lot to learn.
Jardins sous la pluie was being played twice – that’s the source of the “cramp” for you. Nevertheless, I enjoyed playing it at w00t speed. It’s really an exciting piece when compared to the first two. So much contrast! It just takes a little courage to start the piece in bullet-speed.
There’s this one section of the 2nd movement (
La soireé dans Grenade) that I commit the act of
rubato at. But, er, it’s a little personal to talk about it. Recall the section where the RH is playing chordal accompaniment at the highest end of the keyboard while the LH has to carry the melody at the high range (also) of the instrument and then take a dive down to the lowest end to hit a bass drone note and swiftly return back to its previous position to continue the melody line. The LH’s stun takes place in a maximum time of 2 seconds. This is repeated consecutively in a couple of bars. I was putting in too much
rubato in the LH melody – because my breasts are reacting to the jerking movements of my left arm. =____________________=;; (Gawd, why did I even post this
shit here.) Laugh all you want, I’m sorry if
they’re big. BLAME IT ON NEWTON’S LAWS, PEOPLE!!
The first movement of
Estampes was pretty satisfying, given that I don’t have ample time to prepare it. At least my RH lost some of its previous tension while executing the rapid running figurations on the last three pages. There was this
very loud passage in the same movement where I at the corner of my eye spotted Lehrerin Low covering her ears with her hands (er, if I’m not mistaken). OOPS… o_O;;; Sorry, sorry… Was I that loud? *forces out a weak laugh*
Now for the SSC rehearsal! Yay!
More cracks and more jokes. Why am I always looking forward to every Monday’s rehearsal
even though I didn’t learn up Missa Solemnis properly? Herr Lim is definitely one fun conductor. He could lecture a section for
hours minutes about a couple of bars and then close his speech with a “and then what you need now is a pencil” – he did that to the basses when he spotted none was taking down notes. In another occasion, Beethoven imposed a dance in a particular part and Herr Lim, still seated on his conductor chair, danced and stamped like a monkey. o___O All that just to show everyone Beethoven meant the “Glorificat” section as a dance. Plentiful of nonsense jokes, but the one that set me to a non-stop laughing mood was when he tried to explain Beethoven’s way of adding melodic sequences and suddenly changing the mood (technically: diminution and monophonic in texture). The sopranos, who enter last, has the duty to switch the music to another mood, and Herr Lim gave an out burst of “it’s coming… it’s coming!” while we (sopranos) sang shorter and hence quicker notes (putting it in layman terms, guys…) and at “cum sancto spiritu”, this part with everyone punctuating the rhythm in unison and setting the mood for the climatic entry of “Gloria in excelsis Deo”, Herr Lim interrupted the whole thing with his eye-popping “vroom vroom!” sound effect, him physically imitating the action of starting the engine of a bike as well. Oh my gosh! Everybody stop singing on the spot and endless laughter soon began. What’s wrong with him? A screw came loose? I was doing this (o_O) expression to my partner beside me… I could see his passion and enthusiasm, but that was almost disgraceful! Shane (our fantastic pianist) was also enjoying this “act”, lol. When we repeated the section (since we stopped) I couldn’t stop myself from bursting out in laughter at “cum sancto spiritu”. Luckily, (the rest of) the sopranos’ high notes drowned me out. I don’t know what might happen if I was heard. Face Herr Lim’s wrath? Or become the next victim of his jokes? Herr Lim is just so unpredictable, and that’s why we love him. ^^
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