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New! Chopin Concert:
Friday, June 4th 2010 - click poster below for full image
Special Events
CHOPIN CONCERT:
Friday, June 4th 2010 - click the poster below for full image.
At the Church of the Christian Community, 901 Rutherford Road, just west of Bathurst.
Well, the concert happened. It was advertised publicly. The poster you see here was put up around Richmond Hill, there was a photo and short article about it in The Liberal (the local newspaper) and an announcement in WholeNote magazine (the Toronto area monthly about classical music).
There was a modest audience of nearly sixty people, but from my point of view, it was a mixed success. I had slept little the night before, so there were an embarrassing number of mistakes, even memory lapses. The audience seemed forgiving, however, when I explained the reason, and even gave me two standing ovations! So I guess it was OK.
I have been busy, however, recording most of it, and intend to put it out on a CD. If it is good enough, I might manage to have it taken up by one of the big CD companies, but if not, I will issue it myself. The two selling points that will make it unique are, first, the tuning system, as I am doing it on my own piano, and secondly, that the performer is a 79-year-old making his debut on CD as a classical pianist. People might also like the way the pieces are played.
My first two CD's (q.v) had the first version of Maria Renold's new tuning system, but this one will have the improved system, sometimes called Renold II, which includes the expanded octaves that give it even more resonance. And I believe this will be the very first classical recording anywhere in this tuning.
It will include Chopin's Ballades Nos. 1 and 3, four Etudes (including The Winter Wind) and his 24 Preludes, ending with a little Waltz in Gb. As the Preludes are in all 12 major and 12 minor keys, this will be able to serve as a demonstration record to show that the tuning works in all keys, just as the 48 Preludes and Fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord did for the tuning of his day.
Continue to check here under Recordings, for the announcement when the CD is available.
Previous recent concerts
Having played Beethoven’s “Waldstein Sonata” Op. 53 for many years--decades in fact--I gradually found a dramatic, pictorial story emerging from the music, as if by itself. It has to do with the resolving of an inner problem and turmoil, through a visionary experience which shows the redemptive power of music.
On Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009, in the Music Room of The Toronto Waldorf School, I performed this sonata, first telling and demonstrating this story. Then I ended with three of the beautiful Impromptus from Schubert's Opus 90.
Without telling me ahead of time, a friend video-taped the concert and put in on YouTube. You can find details and a link on this website under Recordings.