{"id":15650,"date":"2021-02-20T17:11:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T22:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=15650"},"modified":"2021-02-20T17:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T22:11:53","slug":"poco-piano-maniacal-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/02\/20\/poco-piano-maniacal-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"poco piano: Maniacal Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CjDS3lfgag8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the last movement of Rach 2 and most likely the last post I&#8217;ll be making about this piece. *disclaimer* there is one very very very wrong note in this piece and I hit it quite hard but there wasn&#8217;t any time left to record so I just kept on going *disclaimer over*<\/p>\n<p>This movement always scared me. It scared me in a good way because of it&#8217;s virtuosity and it&#8217;s glamour. To me it felt like I was excited to jump off a cliff. (like those cliff jumps into some lake or whatnot) This is the height of pianist virtuosity, there&#8217;s a sharpness in this piece that begs for attention both from the audience AND the performer. Up until the last week before I recorded this movement, what ran through my mind was always &#8220;faster! more brilliant! more powerful! more charismatic!&#8221; So that was how I played- sometimes I played as fast as a could and with as much of myself as I could and it would fall apart and crash and burn like dropped ice cream cone&#8211; splat on the sidewalk. Somehow I came to the realization (even though my teachers and friends were ALWAYS saying that I played too fast), that I could play it in a more controlled manner and have it actually sound better. Less maniacally and more dance like. The thousands of notes aren&#8217;t there for virtuosity&#8217;s sake but for added flourishes and garnishing of the melody and theme.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt some will still say that I play too fast and out of control and I would have to concede &#8220;yes, that&#8217;s probably true&#8221;. However, I think I&#8217;ve come a long way from maniacal dancing around the fire like some pagan ritual to a more refined form of dancing. Less stomping around the fire chanting and more light two step flying around the ballroom. Hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last movement of Rach 2 and most likely the last post I&#8217;ll be making about this piece. *disclaimer* there is one very very very wrong note in this piece and I hit it quite hard but there wasn&#8217;t any time left to record so I just kept on going *disclaimer over* This [&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\/15650"}],"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=15650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15652,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650\/revisions\/15652"}],"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=15650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}