June 20, 2002
For all the grousing
For all the grousing and procrastinating and dragging of feet that I do about programming... when I sit down to do it, I really do enjoy it. I have to remember that.It'd just be nice if after 90 minutes of debugging I could go over to my baby grand piano and play a Chopin Nocturne or something. That would be so nice.
If I had a piano... I would learn a few pieces. There are two Rachmaninoff preludes I want to learn - G# minor (even though every piano student already knows it, I never quite got around to it) and G major. (Sorry, don't have the opus numbers on hand.)
I'd also want to learn Chopin's Berceuse. I have plenty of further-out Chopin goals once I get my fingers back (ultimately leading to the fourth Ballade), but Berceuse would be a good start.
For a technical challenge (neighbors willing), there's a couple of good Prokofiev pieces I would want. Including his third sonata in A minor, the one that starts with all the E major chords.
And as for Baroque or classical? Well, I'm never all that motivated to learn anything Classical. I'd be content to burn all of Mozart's piano sonatas and just stick to enjoying his stuff that isn't piano solo. But Baroque... I want to learn the G minor Prelude & Fugue from book II of the WTC. That Fugue is just overwhelmingly intense and I don't think I'd ever be able to do justice to the passion that gets in my blood when I imagine myself into it. And most people don't know it, but Scarlatti has some extremely cool pieces. They are all short but with very intense personality. Little soul shards. I'd learn four or five of those.
Finally, I'd want to actually learn the three piano pieces I've written. I've never actually learned two of them entirely properly. Actually, one of them is badly written enough that it is probably impossible to learn effectively, but I should at least try.
Okay, that'll have to do in lieu of practicing. Guess I'll go do some
more programming now.
Posted by Curt at June 20, 2002 12:46 AM