Hello

[kelddath]

Hello everyone,

Just joined livejournal today and the first thing I looked for was a group that appreciates classical music (as a generalization for the baroque through the late romantic period).

I have been playing piano on and off for about 16 years and started taking lessons my freshmen year at college.  I'm now reaching the end of my college

Comments

[por_que_no]

Are you looking to continue (after you graduate) as a piano performance major, or are you interested in something like musicology, arts administration, music theory, etc? With your communications background I could see you going into arts administration (like PR for an artist or record label, running a teaching studio etc) or music criticism/journalism.

You've got some nice repertoire there for your senior recital--just curious though, what happened to the last movement of the Beethoven? :o

[kelddath]

Ah, thank you all for commenting! I suppose I really do want to go into piano performance... I just have lots of trouble putting all of my being into the music sometimes. It's odd, but often all it takes to get me back into it is having a few friends to provide support. I don't have parents or relatives to speak of, so that makes it tough

[kelddath]

Oh, on a side note, I'm having the recital recorded so I'll toss it up on Youtube next week ^.^

[por_que_no]

eeeek! A month and a half is a ridiculously short amount of time for a recital--congrats on being able to prepare anything that quickly! I had 3 months to do my senior recital and it was still really harried and not adequately prepared.

If you want a grad degree in performance, though, you'll need to make some leaps and bounds in repertory choices...I'd expect that recital rep out of a high school senior auditioning at a pretty good school (Michigan, for example, where I went as a theory major but was friends with all the pianists and in a studio). Granted you only had a month and a half to prepare this, but if that's the type of stuff you're playing all the time, you might want to check out some more advanced stuff as well. Good luck!

[kelddath]

I'm very excited to start on new music after this Saturday. I have a few pieces in mind already but if anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear!