Good "electrifried" Sunday Morning, all bodies.
Oh man, if it wasn't for the "mo-skeetos" I would have stayed for the entire show. Returning from a pool party around 8 or so, an electrical storm south of us somewhere in Covington, lit up the sky. The muffled sound of thunder in the distance added a soundtrack to the performance!
Mother Nature at her most dangerous best!
Earlier that day, digging my second cup, Tyler, our resident Chopin fan, came by to play for awhile. He's learning some new tunes, but stayed with the standard ones he feels confident enough to play.
He left early, but returned because of a large accident blocking traffic. So, we chatted about some of the more emotional passages of Chopin's nocturnals... especially Nocturne Op.9, No. 2.
It's really hard to talk about classical music with such great titles to the songs, ya know?
The Nocturnes, Op. 9 are a set of three nocturnes for solo piano written between 1831 and 1832, and dedicated to Madame Marie Pleyel. Apparently, she was an accomplished pianist herself engaged to the composer, Hector Berlioz, but changed her mind and married Camille Pleyel, son of Ignaz Pleyel, and heir to the piano manufacturing business.
There's a connection between Chopin's use of Pleyel piano and Pleyel foot pedals. According to Tyler, Chopin incorporated pedal use in all of his nocturnes.
After the traffic bottleneck was cleared away, Tyler split and I decided to do a sketch of the pedals on the baby grand piano there at GiddyUp. All I had was a Sharpie to draw with, so that's what I went with.
All in all, it was a very nice Saturday... to have!
First cup...
Oh man, if it wasn't for the "mo-skeetos" I would have stayed for the entire show. Returning from a pool party around 8 or so, an electrical storm south of us somewhere in Covington, lit up the sky. The muffled sound of thunder in the distance added a soundtrack to the performance!
Mother Nature at her most dangerous best!
Earlier that day, digging my second cup, Tyler, our resident Chopin fan, came by to play for awhile. He's learning some new tunes, but stayed with the standard ones he feels confident enough to play.
He left early, but returned because of a large accident blocking traffic. So, we chatted about some of the more emotional passages of Chopin's nocturnals... especially Nocturne Op.9, No. 2.
It's really hard to talk about classical music with such great titles to the songs, ya know?
The Nocturnes, Op. 9 are a set of three nocturnes for solo piano written between 1831 and 1832, and dedicated to Madame Marie Pleyel. Apparently, she was an accomplished pianist herself engaged to the composer, Hector Berlioz, but changed her mind and married Camille Pleyel, son of Ignaz Pleyel, and heir to the piano manufacturing business.
There's a connection between Chopin's use of Pleyel piano and Pleyel foot pedals. According to Tyler, Chopin incorporated pedal use in all of his nocturnes.
After the traffic bottleneck was cleared away, Tyler split and I decided to do a sketch of the pedals on the baby grand piano there at GiddyUp. All I had was a Sharpie to draw with, so that's what I went with.
All in all, it was a very nice Saturday... to have!
First cup...
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