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post Jan 29 2010, 07:50 PM
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QUOTE(Mad Tom @ Jan 29 2010, 10:09 AM) *

Crotchety Mum: There was a TV documentary a couple of years ago (The Red Piano? or somethihng like that). It reckoned that there could be as many as 80 MILLION Chinese children learning piano.

... and I am listening to Schubert's Bb sonata (D960) over and over, alternating Horowitz's version with Clara Haskil's - simultaneously working from incomplete and inconsistent specifications to fix bugs in badly crafted programs,



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Lang Lang on Radio 4. According to him there are currently 4 million Chinese children learning the piano and 2 million learning the violin (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) or was it 40 million?


It was 60 million learning the piano and I *think* it was 20 million learning the violin!


I thought it was 40 million (or even 60 million), and then when I wrote it down I couldn't believe that I'd really heard that number - it's so huge it's off the scale that I can imagine (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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"Lament of a Venerable Cat" by David W Solomons. It was in a Zip file of lots of MIDI files of organ pieces, found at SCPOP.de. It is playing via MIDI through the Free Version of Hauptwerk (I can't afford the full version, and have no MIDI console to play, so I practice registration on various free organs and MIDI files)
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Driving over from Cheshire this morning on my iPod playlist I listened to Mozart Sonata for Paino and Violin K379, Prokofiev Piano Conc No 3, a Clementi Piano Sonata Op33 No1 , and some Arvo Part (shorter Choral pieces)
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Have you got / heard the Arvo Part cd "Triodion' ?
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Have you got / heard the Arvo Part cd "Triodion' ?


I havent Maggie, my daughter bought me 2 Part CD's at Christmas but no that one , I really like his music, particularly the choral stuff.
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If you feel like buying another, I recommend Triodion. My OH went up to HMV just before Christmas and came back with a random haul. This was one - it's Polyphony, Stephen Layton.

Has the following, in case you want to check for duplicates ...

Dopo la Vittoria, Nunc Dimittis, ...which was the Son of ..., I am the true vine, Littlemore Tractus, Triodion, My heart's in the Highlands, Salve Regina.

I love the Nunc Dimittis which I sang in choir about a year ago. ...which was the Son of... (yes, that is the title) is interesting: the first time I heard it it made me laugh - he could set the phone book to music this guy.

The only one I don't much like is My heart's in the Highlands - I usually love the countertenor voice but this particular piece doesn't really work for me. The rest of the CD I think is wonderful.

Also in the trawl from HMV were a couple of Eric Whitacre albums - fabulous too.
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