Final Recital: May 30th, 2:15pm
Group Class: May 2nd or 3rd
Les Miserables - all learned for next group class end of April
Mozart: all learned to the end same as above.
🟩Somewhere Only We Know
Continue redoing the sections that were lost.
🟩Les Miserables, I Dreamed a Dream:
m. 16 & 19 - fix the RH fingering.
m. 19 add the crescendo
Learn mm. 20-29 hands alone, then together. Really focus on harmony while you’re learning. Ensure correct fingering.
🟪Like Him (recital piece)
Practice starting from any measure of the piece.
Cleaner pedaling
More accuracy in the post-chorus section.
Make your softs more exaggerated.
Careful that the LH doesn’t overpower the RH.
🟩Mozart Sonata, No. 11 in A Major, III. Rondo: Alla Turca
With all rolled chords and notes with grace notes: let go of them once rolled. Do this with a forward wrist. Speed-build 108-112
Listen to the recording in Newzik for notes / expressive help. Learn to the end. Next week let’s try to start putting a steady beat to the last page so get the notes in your fingers as best as you can.
Mice on Venus from Minecraft, arr. Sam Hodgkinson (P. Choice)
List C: Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer (L. 4, C)
Etude 1: Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn (L. 4, Etude)
Solitude by Joyce Grill (b. 1936) (L. 4, Etude)
Level 4, Practical Test: May 29, 2024
List A: Minuet in G Major by J. S. Bach
List B: Sonatina in F Major, op. 168 no. 1 “Moderato cantabile” by Anton Diabelli
List C: Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer
Etude 1: Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn
Etude 2: Solitude by Joyce Grill
Level 3, Practical Test: June 2023 ( score of 87)
List A: J. S. Bach, Polonaise in F Minor, BWV Anh. 119 (L. 3, A)
List B: Sonatina in A Minor op. 94 no. 4 by Albert Biehl (L. 3, B)
List C: Wild Mignonette, Op. 205 No. 1 by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901) (L. 3, C)
Etude: Burgmuller, Op. 100 No. 2, L’Arabesque (Etude, L. 3)
Etude: Prelude VII by Barbara Arens (b. 1960) (L. 3, Etude)