Hi, Fred--? It was quite pleasing to hear your performances (and I can appreciate your concern about the G5). Until 20 years ago I myself was pretty good on piano, along with harpsichord and pipe organ. I no longer play but am "considering" getting my act together again. My special interests are JS Bach, Brahms, and of course Hindemith. While working for my local FM station KPFA as an engineer I could?never find a member of my team to play piano? while I was setting levels! Good luck and long life. Dave Talcott? -----Original Message----- From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> To: College & University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 11:55 am 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/20090909/92af6ab8/attachment.htm>
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