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Still's Afro-American Symphony, cause it's on the radio.

I'm excited because at 1:00 they'll be playing the Artunian trumpet concerto, which I accompanied for a senior recital last year.

I just became music director at a church, and I'm planning to do a solo recital in the next few months, since they apparently have had similar things in the past. The major piano work I was planning on is Mendelssohn's Variations serieuses in D minor. I was wondering if there are any program notes a...

I have that exact Jando CD, which I got mostly for the Appassionata, which I played for my senior recital. I think he takes the last movement of it way too fast during the coda...the percussive parts are fine, but the final flourishes on the main theme become all smashed together and blurred. While ...

I would suggest practicing any difficult trills as if they were 16th-notes (or, in some contexts, 8th-notes.) This way, you will hear each trill as a simple melodic figure that plays an active role in the music's contrapuntal fabric, as opposed to merely being an ornamented stationary note. After y...

Shostakovich 10.

I'm looking for a reduction of MacDowell's Piano Concerto no. 1 in a minor, op. 15. Sheetmusicplus.com only has a set of parts for orchestra (at $100) and a full score ($60). Is there a two-piano reduction available somewhere? Or just the solo part? I'm not looking for file-swapping, but just a plac...

I'm not particularly well-versed on violin music (I'm a pianist), but what I've heard and like...

Rondo Capriccioso by Saint-Saens
Concerto in G minor by Bruch (last movement especially, but has lots of double stops)
Either of Mendelssohn's concertos

I was forced to start taking piano lessons at age 5. Still taking lessons, and I'm a senior in college...music major. Taught myself the flute in high school, started organ lessons 2 years ago. My older brother also plays the piano and organ, my mom played flute/pic and violin in high school/college,...

Bach's "little" preludes and fugues are a good place to start (I just finished working on his E minor one). If you want some easy-ish toccatas, check out Pachelbel; he wrote some nice ones. For manual work only, try Sweelinck's Echo Fantasias. Franck wrote some nice organ stuff as well, th...

Yes, a bit of thread necromancy, but whatever.

I think the "best" composer ever is either Beethoven or Liszt.

As far as personality, I'm actually (unfortunately?) really close to Berlioz.