{"id":14125,"date":"2020-10-24T19:37:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T23:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=14125"},"modified":"2020-10-24T19:41:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T23:41:15","slug":"poco-piano-ears-instinct-and-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/10\/24\/poco-piano-ears-instinct-and-emotion\/","title":{"rendered":"poco piano: ears, instinct, and emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bf2Xti-Rqks?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week I rehearsed with my accompanist. She&#8217;s playing the orchestra part and I&#8217;m playing the soloist part. This little excerpt is from our first rehearsal so it&#8217;s just a little messy&#8230; but it&#8217;s a work in progress and what&#8217;s most important is to keep striving! (I think the vibrations from the pianos and my stomping caused the camera to quake a bit, sorry!)<\/p>\n<p>This is from the first movement of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 2, just a few pages before the recapitulation (the reappearance of the majestic melody of the first theme).<\/p>\n<p>This is one of my favorite parts to play because of the sweeping motions and the action! There&#8217;s real dialogue between the orchestra and the soloist, we play off of each other and there&#8217;s really no greater feeling. It&#8217;s really a whirlwind of action here and to play it means to really empty your mind and let your ears, instinct, and emotion take control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I rehearsed with my accompanist. She&#8217;s playing the orchestra part and I&#8217;m playing the soloist part. This little excerpt is from our first rehearsal so it&#8217;s just a little messy&#8230; but it&#8217;s a work in progress and what&#8217;s most important is to keep striving! (I think the vibrations from the pianos and my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2225,"featured_media":13999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14128,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions\/14128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}