Hi, Fred, Thanks very much for this gift! I always enjoy your contributions, and very much look forward to hearing and seeing this concert. I've always been quite partial to Villa-Lobos, and (in what seems like a previous lifetime) performed the Bachianas for flute and bassoon a number of times. Another favorite is Carlos Chavez, who wrote exceptionally beautiful, if equally difficult, music. Glad you're performing, Fred! Best. Horace -----Original Message----- From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 12:55:51 To: College & University Technicians<caut at ptg.org> Subject: [CAUT] Villa-Lobos piano music (self-promotion) Hi all, As many of you know, I am a pretty serious pianist and do a fair amount of performing and recording, with an emphasis on Latin American composers, Villa-Lobos in particular. This fall I decided to do an all- Villa-Lobos program in honor of the 50th anniversary of his death, and I gave that concert at UNM a little over a week ago (and repeated it at St John's College last Sunday). It was videotaped, so I have uploaded it to YouTube. If you are interested, here is a link to one of the uploads (there are a total of 24): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KfHXBrmgWE (the others should be pretty easy to find, should you care to). To make it "on topic," I'll note that I tuned the piano in the morning the day before the concert. The hall was heavily scheduled the day of the concert, and I don't like to tune the same day as I perform anyway (I want to concentrate of performing), so that's how it worked out. I got there an hour ahead of my concert, and while warming up (and letting the sound engineer set levels for the recording), I noticed a few unisons that were starting to be suspicious, G5 in particular. However, Fred Sturm the pianist really didn't feel like putting on the hat of Fred Sturm piano technician, so I let it go. If you listen to the encore, O Policinelo, the G5 (together with a couple other notes) really does become a bit annoying. But not so much that I feel the need to hang my head in shame - hey, that pianist played pretty hard. So I conclude that it is a good idea to tune the day of each concert if possible. And also that it pays to tune pretty solidly as a matter of course, in case the day of the concert doesn't work out. Just on the off chance anyone on this list didn't already know these nuggets of wisdom <G>. Also, it is a bad idea to rely on a tuner who is a little lazy <G>. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090908/c5242dcc/attachment.htm>
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