MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Hey everyone’s vinyls looks great. While I think I was one of the earliest to receive the Why? CD when it came out last year, looks like with the vinyl will have to wait. The Western Canada post is so unpredictable. Always love and cherish all the extra goodies MLT send along in the parcel.
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Love Mona’s twangy slide guitar sounds, and Lisa’s bluesy vocals so heartfelt and expressive.
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I’ve always enjoyed some of Sheryl Crow’s bluesy songs over the years like this one. When I heard Mona and Lisa’s bluesy Waiting For The Waiter I was so thrilled!
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The first MLT original with a piano, and what a beautiful song.
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Hey Jacki, thanks for that. Didn’t realize it is Piano Day. March 29th 2023 is in fact the 88th day of the year to mark 88 keys of a piano. There is still 2 hours left of Piano Day where I am. I remember back when I bought an acoustic piano (a small Baldwin upright) for my piano practices, and my mom really liked having a piano in the house. She’d sometimes came downstairs while I was at work and played around on the piano she told me. When I moved out and got my own place, it just didn’t feel right taking the piano out of my mom’s place, and it’s still there.
I don’t have any pictures of me and the piano, so here is a practice session from back then. I polished this up more and performed it at a piano competition at the piano school I took lessons. My piano teacher at the time felt it was good for me to do that, so I memorized the piece and did my best, the only time I ever performed a musical instrument to an audience.
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This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by Jung Roe.
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Hi Jeff
Those photos look gorgeous, but I guess would be more fitting if it was December or January. We had a late wet snow fall in early March here in Vancouver which is quite late for my area, and some very light dusting of snow even this past weekend one morning. Winter seems to linger on. I hope it warms up for you soon, so you can enjoy the spring.
Today I went for a walk where I am, and I didn’t need my jacket for the first time, and some white fluffy cottony puffs of cumulous clouds littered the clear blue sky which is an indication of Spring, and it felt like Spring arrived, though it’s supposed to go down to 3C tonight, so not quite there yet. It did feel like a beautiful Any Other Day kind of wonderful day today as Spring made an appearance, and I started dreaming of traveling to a Destination Sunrise.
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Hi Chris
That is an interesting piano indeed, I wonder if it’s custom made for him. I’ve never seen one like that on wheels and with just 64 keys, I presume like the keyboards in Bach and Mozart days.
Yeah, busking was a new word for me too, and learned it here at the MLT Club, in fact learned a lot of new things here. I really enjoyed MLTs experiences they shared about their busking. I think it takes courage and confidence to go out and do that in front of the public that can be so unpredictable.
I found this interesting interview with Jonny Hahn that really gives some amazing insight into the world of busking and life long dedication to his art, and hearing him talk, he is very aware of the world and music industry. His comment about how diverse Pike Place Market is and the wide array of people that come there, and all are touched by his music, there is that point about how music crosses all boundaries between people. Really a bright and remarkable fellow.
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Hi Chris
That sounded like a lot of fun to play with a couple of strangers who share the passion of music like that, and to have an audience who appreciated it and got into your playing. Thanks for sharing that.
When I got into practicing the piano through the 90s, while it was the classical music and new age piano sounds of the likes of George Winston, Eric Daub etc, another performer that really had an impact on me and I felt the passion of what it must be like to live a life of music was a street performer in Seattle. I often visited Seattle and I’d always go down to the Pike Place Market area to see this amazing pianist, Jonny Hahn, play. In the winter when it was really cold or rain, he use to play wearing these gloves with the finger tips cut out. He had this small upright piano on wheels he carted around and played at different locations in Pike Place Market. I remember one year I loaded my portable Casio keyboard in my trunk and took it with me on my road trip vacation and played it in the hotel room, partly inspired by Jonny Hahn. It didn’t matter what happened in my world, with my little piano and passion of playing, that’s all I needed. I was filled with that passion for a short time in the 90s. I hope I can have that feeling again when I’m finally retired.
I found a youtube post of him from 3 years ago still playing at the Pike Place Market. I have a CD from him from a number of years ago.
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Hi Chris
That sounds like a wonderful area with all those pianos. It must have felt nice to be able to play like that sort of spontaneously. That reminds me of my old work place a few years ago, there was a little square next to a shopping area where they had basketball hoops, and in the corner there was this little upright piano donated, so any passers by good play it. At lunch time when I walked by you could hear people play it. That area was a low income neighbourhood, and sometimes you would see people of all walks sit and play a tune, it was quite remarkable and heartwarming to see. Music was a bond between people no matter a person’s stature.
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A double heads up David, Ukelele day Feb 2nd. There is time to prepare! 😉
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Hi Chris
Here is that performance by Hilary Hahn I remember. I may be biased, but I think the first movement of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is the greatest violin solo piece in music. The emotional range Beethoven takes you in music here is amazing and second to none. I’ve heard good performances, but when a musician makes it all their own with their unique nuance, and you feel every single note, it is truly remarkable, and I think she pulls that off here.
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Hi Chris
Here is the legendary conductor and pianist Leonard Bernstein’s short speech before the performance with Glenn Gould. This was unheard of for a conductor to come out and say he did not agree with his solo musician, but really what is remarkable is what he goes on to say so eloquently from 2:30 to 3:30 of the video about that refreshing new interpretation by Glenn Gould that made a huge impression on him and made him believe it was important the audience hear Gould’s new interpretation.
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Thanks Jeff, keeping my fingers crossed. I’ll root for you too! 🙂
All the best to you and your family.
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Hi Dave
Yeah, I’m looking forward to some new MLT songs with Papa Rudi on that Hammond. I have some CDs of Bach organ works that I really enjoy too. There is something so stirring and moving about a pipe organ sound like this one. I guess that’s why they used them in churches for centuries.
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Hi Chris
It seems classical and jazz are on opposite ends of the spectrum in so far as classical being really structured and jazz is much more free for the musician to add his own creativity and expression into the piece. I think in classical, musicians and even orchestras add nuanced variation within the structure of the music, and within that fairly narrow room to play are able to add their own unique expression that can make one musicians performance remarkable while another’s just accurate. I think Glenn Gould in some instances has improvised and pushed that envelope. There is one famous performance of a Brahms piano concerto where the conductor Leonard Bernstein before the performance even made an announcement that he did not agree with Glenn Gould’s interpretation, because Glenn played the piece in parts much slower and deliberate than what the accepted speed was. There are even some music critics who complain they hear Glenn and not Bach in some of his works. One thing no one can’t deny is Glenn Gould’s interpretation of Bach is mesmerizing, and listeners return to Bach because of that amazing experience, and I think when a musician can do that, it is job accomplished. Glenn once said what is the point if you are just mimicking exactly how everyone else played a piece.
But as you say it takes a certain skill and genius in the case of Glenn Gould and MLT, to be able to add their own creativity and expression to the music transforming it into something fresh, new and amazing, while preserving the essence and what made the piece great in the first place.
Yeah, Hilary Hahn is a remarkable violin virtuoso. I previously posted here in the forum a movement of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto performed by Hilary Hahn. An amazing performance.