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Paul
Tseng ICS Staff 
Administrator
(10/3/00 2:45:56 pm)
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What's
on your menu these days?
So with all this talk about other
cellists and how they play...
What are you working on these
days? Tell us about some concerts that you are preparing for. Hey,
maybe some of us will be in the neighborhood and can stop by and
attend your concerts.
Wouldn't it be a blast to meet each
other face to face and see how we get along in real life? (sort of
like what many of us did at WCIII ..except me..)
Ok..I'll
start:
Concertos - Shostakovich #1, Tchaikovsky Rococo
Variations
Recitals - Schumann 5 pieces in folkstyle, Shubert
Arpeggione, Miaskovsky 2nd sonata, Shostakovich Sonata, Chopin
Sonata (actually this is 2 programs)
Chamber Music - Brahms Trio
in C, Tchaikovsky Trio
on the back burner - Kodaly Solo
Sonata, Bach 6th Suite, Locatelli Sonata.
I'm hoping to take
these recitals on the road in about a month or so (first in SD and
then throughout S. CA) I really hope to meet some of you ICSers in
CA soon!
Paul Tseng, Cello Chat Administrator
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Laura
Wichers
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(10/3/00 3:23:23 pm)
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Re:
What's on your menu these days?
Solo stuff: Kabalevsky #1, d minor
Suite, a few Poppers (don't remember which ones), and am trying to
force myself to do at least an hour of scale-related work everyday.
I just started to focus on scale work in the last few weeks, and the
difference in my playing, especially left hand fluidity and
intonation, is amazing. I wish I'd listened to my teachers and
started this stuff sooner!  The
Kabalevsky and Bach and something else will be on my recital next
semester.
Chamber stuff: I'm playing Ravel's quartet for
piano/cello/flute/mezzo-soprano (I'd try to type the name but I have
no idea how to spell those French words!) and Andre Previn's "5
Pieces" for piano/cello/flute. My string quartet is doing a
read-through of a bunch of stuff tonight, so our repertoire is yet
to be decided.
Orchestra stuff: Picts @ Exhibition,
Szymanowski Sinfonia Concertante, Carnival Overture, Sibelius #2,
Bruch Scottish Fantasie, and getting ready for Brahms #2 and Wagner
Siegfried Idyll.
It's a busy but very productive semester.
I've found the busier I am, within reason, the more I get
accomplished, so all is good.
-Laura
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sarah
schenkman
Registered User
(10/3/00 5:13:30 pm)
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lots of
orchestra stuff
I'm doing mostly orchestra stuff
right now - played Saint-Saens Organ Symphony, Don Juan, and Quite
City last night and am playing Schubert Great Symphony, Oberon
Overture, and Schumann Piano Concerto on Saturday. My quartet played
a concert last week we're repeating next week including a Mozart
Divertimento and a bunch of pieces by Weill, Bernstein, Eubie Blake,
Jelly Roll Morton, and Lew Pollack arranged for quartet. That will
be the day after a Pops concert I haven't picked up my music for
yet.
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String4tetCellist
Registered User
(10/3/00 7:27:45 pm)
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Chamber
Music!!
My music school is starting the
first semester on Friday, so I'll have a couple of quartets to
learn! I'm so happy about that- chamber music is my favorite thing
to do!
As for solo stuff, I'm doing "The Swan," and "Kol Nidre,"
as well as finishing up "Allegro Appassionato," which I learned at
the beginning of the summer but haven't yet played for my teacher!
I'm doing Haydn C also, and having a difficult time with
passagework-not my strong point, exactly. And lastly, of course,
Bach: entire first suite; second prelude, courante, sarabande;
entire third suite
Probably not nearly as advanced as anyone
else's on this board...but certainly enough for me!
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Daniel
Ortbals
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(10/3/00 8:02:22 pm)
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Stuff
My Junior Recital is November 4 (so
if anyone's in Columbia, MO then, come on by ). I'm
doing Beethoven C Major, Bach No. 4, and Schelomo, so I'll try not
to let my brain melt within the next month.
Chamber music:
Dvorak d minor and Bartok 1.
Orchestra: Just finished
Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher and Beethoven's 6th, and next month
will do Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
My chamber orchestra is
playing St. Paul's Suite, Barber Adagio, and Mozart Concerto for
four winds and orchestra (played by four faculty members).
I
think that's about it right now, hehe.
Dan
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Laura
Wichers
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(10/3/00 8:17:35 pm)
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Re:
Schelomo
Hey Daniel, you'll have to let me
know how that Schelomo goes. That is my very favorite cello piece
EVER. Play your heart and soul out!!
-Laura
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Tim
Janof
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(10/3/00 10:29:45 pm)
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Re:
What's on your menu these days?
Schubert
'Arpeggione.'
Mendelssohn c minor Piano Trio.
ICS interviews,
ICS newsletters, ICS operations.
Oh yeah, life.
Edited by: Tim
Janof at: 10/3/00 10:29:45 pm
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justinkagan1
Registered
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(10/4/00 7:34:58 am)
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What's on your menu these days?
More pedestrian fare...Carter and
Dohnanyi sonatas, Schuller Fantasy, Nachrachimoff snotta, assorted
spooneristic works.
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Lisa
Shipman
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(10/4/00 7:54:29 pm)
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Re:
What's on your menu these days?
Having recently joined the community
orchestra I have been working on music for our upcoming concert. It
will be a blast. Halloween special! Actually there is a complete
stage show going on but for once we're not in the pit but up on
stage, and we get to wear costumes! The conductor wants creepy over
cute so I'm deciding between a homicide victim and a serial killer.
Leaning towards the victim though. Part of the show is more family
oriented so were doing a pretty cool arrangement of Pink Panther
(yes, he'll be there) as well as the "old" batman theme and of
course the opening will be Chopin's Funeral March with the conductor
coming up out of the trapdoor in a coffin and then lifted in the air
with wires to conduct from above. Good thing he's also an actor!
Now, if I can only see my music through the fog machine!
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Stefan79
Registered User
(10/5/00 5:08:51 am)
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What's on your menu these days?
Concertos: Tchaikovskij, 'Rococo
Variations' and Prokofieff, 'Symphony-Concerto', Op. 125
Sonatas:
César Franck, sonata in A major and Saint-Saëns, sonata #1 in c
minor
Solo: Bach, suites # 1 & 3 and some Piatti Caprices
(#1,3 & 7)
Chamber music: Martinu, trio for
flute/piano/cello, Ravel, Andante & Allegro (I'm not sure about
the title) for string quartet/clarinet/harp, Grieg, string quartet
in g minor, Gunnar de Frumerie, Divertiment for
clarinet/cello
Orchestra: Crusell, concerto for clarinet and
orchestra in f minor, Alfvén, 'Midsommarvaka' and Nielsen, Symphony
#5
I really have a lot to do, but I really love playing the
Proko. Op. 125!! I'm
supposed to play all three movements at my first exam at my new
school...pretty cool piece to play at the first exam...
- Stefan
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Stefan79
Registered User
(10/5/00 5:11:24 am)
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Re:
Schelomo
Schelomo is my favorite
piece to...
But...what happened to the Lalo?? 
- Stefan 
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David
Sanders
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User
(10/5/00 7:29:13 am)
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scales
Frank Miller always taught to
practice scales fast separate bows. It does wonders for left-right
hand coordination.
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Laura
Wichers
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(10/5/00 8:01:51 am)
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Schelomo
Hahaha. I love the Lalo, but even in
all its greatness, it can't hold a candle to
Schelomo!
-Laura
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Laura
Wichers
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(10/5/00 8:04:28 am)
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scales
Not to mention right-hand
coordination. I discovered several years ago that 90% of the time
when I'm having trouble getting somethng to sound (especially fast
passages), my left hand is fine but my right hand either doesn' keep
up or goes too fast. Since then, I've done a TON of rhythm
practicing, which seems to be the only thing besides lots of scale
work, that does any good.
-Laura
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Stefan79
Registered User
(10/5/00 12:46:15 pm)
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That's
true! :)
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CelloFreak
Registered User
(10/6/00 12:09:53 am)
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What's on your menu these days?
All-State tape audition music,
Dvorak concerto (2nd movement), Prokofiev Symphony-Concerto (3rd
movement), scales, Schroeder Foundation Studies, and youth orchestra
music. Thank goodness the chair auditions are over. Now I just have
to worry about the tape thing.
Eric
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Corrina
Connor
Registered
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(10/6/00 12:46:12 am)
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Coincidence. . .
We're rehearsing 'Pictures' at the
moment, playing Sibelius2 tomorrow (I love those cool passage things
in the 4th movement. . .over and over and over again!!). We played
Brahms 2 twice in August, and doing it again soon....
Scales?
Well, yes.....
Anyway, my menue. .
.
Orchestra:
Shostakovich Symphony no. 10
Mahler
Symphony no. 10
Brahms #2
"Pictures"
Weber Concertino for
Clarinet (lovely piece).
Solo:
Bach Suite No. 1 (know
the whole thing now, just doing a little bit of polishing, well,
cleaning. . .nearly polishing)
Vivaldi Sonata No. 5 in E
minor
Goltermann Concerto No. 4 (does that count as a
concerto???)
Various pieces by Squire - Danse Rustique,
Tarantella, Bouree etc....
SCALES
Bowing
exercises
Shroder.....
Chamber
music
non
Byeeeee
BTW, Concerts:
Sunday 22
October 7.30pm, Wellington Town Hall.
Shos10 and Mahler10. BE
THERE
I just learnt about that Shostakovich initials thing,
you know the D Eb C B thing!!!
~Corrina~
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Bob
Blais
Registered
User
(10/6/00 7:10:02 pm)
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Re:
scales
A good way to get that coordination
is to syncopate the fingers and bow. Play with your fingers, then
your bow. Start slow, get faster. Be really accurate with the rhythm
of the syncopation.
Bob
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zambocello
Registered User
(10/7/00 1:18:18 am)
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on the
menu
On my menu --
mostly
orchestra playing. Next week I sit on 1st stand as part of my tenure
review. I'll have to be a good boy..... 
Since I'm new in these parts I don't have as much
extracurricular playing as usual. Hindemith Kammerkonzert with a
chamber orchestra at Roundtop is coming. And chamber music -- piano
quartets of Mozart and Brahms, Beethoven "Eyeglasses" Duet, and a
solo recital commemorating Bach -- Suites 2 and 4 plus Suites by
Bloch and Reger. I think that's it for the whole season for me. I
hope more things come up! (Type A personality.
)
With more spare time than usual I have been practicing
gamba with some regularity. I hope to find a group to play with.
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String4tetCellist
Registered User
(10/7/00 9:47:52 pm)
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Schubert, Beethoven, and Grieg
My music school started yesterday
and I'm so happy! I'm playing the 2nd (slow-funeral march, I think)
movement of Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" quartet. In our
orchestra, we're playing a piece by Grieg- regret to say I don't
know the name of it. And...we might...just might...play the
PASTORALE SYMPHONY!! If we get some good wind players. But that
would be so amazing for me. I've only played a couple of orchestra
pieces...none Beethoven-gee, I guess I am pretty
inexperienced...
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ruthann
Registered User
(10/10/00 12:17:50 pm)
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Zambo...
When is the gig at Roundtop? My mom
lives not too far from there and often attends. Some years back
(maybe 15?) while I was visiting we went to a wonderful afternoon of
chamber music. No air conditioning at that time, but I think they've
since remedied that. Let me know the date and I'll let Mom know.
Then watch out for a 6 ft tall white haired lady...
cello_suttonr@hotmail.com
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