WOW just heard your performance of this spectular piece (1 that my teacher has asked me to try and learn ) and WOW its just inspirational!!!

That is quite fantastically kind of you. Thank you. There are no blushing smilies, so I shall make up my own :blush: :blush:

When you have learned it yourself, you will be able to go back and spot all the bloopers I dropped - the recording is from a live performance, so editing was not an option .

Steve

Um... sorry if I sound like a complete plonker, but where did you hear it from?

his webpage on his profile

Go into Steve's profile and follow the URL for his own website (how did you get your own website Steve?). There's samples in their (and a lovely pic of Steve too. )

If you click on the name "SteveHopwood" on the right of the post above yours, you go through to a rather nice webpage with some interesting info about teaching, and some links to "hear Steven play" which leads on to a choice of several pieces. I'm not a pianist but I too enjoyed them very much.

Interestingly the post title "Stevehopwood's playing" gave away nothing of whether the review was going to be rave or ranting so I had to hurry in here quickly to find out (although a ranting review would of course have said more about the poster than the pianist).

oops! I see I'm 4 minutes behind neil.clarinet and etude in gold!

Computer programming is the only hobby I have, so designing my own website was the logical next step.

For those of you with better things to do with your time that become computer geeks, visit Practiespot.com where you can get a site up and running in a few minutes. Don't thank me for this, but Margaret and ChocolateDog for discovering the facility.

Steve

Steve is brill and it's fantastic to have him amongst us.

Who cares about the bloopers?

How is the pregnancy going,Steve?

Best Wishes...

Steve is pregnant?!!

Hey, I didn't know you had a website until today - not that I'd looked

Very much enjoyed the first bit of that Mozart in C I've been playing with - shame you didn't put all of it on, I'd like to hear it all given my email won't let you send it!

I've been battling with a desperate urge to play the semiquaver-triplet bit too slow - even though I know how fast it's meant to go!! Why?!!

Thanks for asking, Semele. The pregnancy is going fine. For those of you going 'Eh?', it goes back to a much earlier post.

Steve

A post I obviously missed.....

Hey Steve - I recall YAP had a blushing smilie somewhere.....

Steve is going to be a grandfather soon. Steve, I hope you've knitted a few bootees when waiting for computer things to happen!

The blushing smiley is colon wub colon (with no spaces), like this

Indeed, with a little trickery it can be done.

Add the following external image: http://ashuu.free.fr/phpBB2/images/smiles/icon_Blushing.gif

Et voila!

Ah, that's the one - brilliant!

Goodness me

EtudeInGold Yesterday, 05:29 PM Post #1


Newbie Aintree.

Quite near me.I drive to end of M58 and hop on the train (every 15 mins....so no hanging around ) and get off at Moorfields or Liverpoolcentral.

EtudeInGold...did you know he committed suicide at the Adelphi??? Pretty sure he did it...Happy Valley 1941.... But that is what happens if you dabble on snooker tables with married women.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...954434?v=glance

But don't take the film too literally.Cyril Connolly was a respected journalist and Fox wrote the book...

Yes, I agree, amazing playing!
Where is this earlier post?

Top 'nana playing, I love the Chopin too!

Nicki

Try doing a word search on "pregnant"....All forums.

Like Steve said it was a while back.

Just to explain my earlier posting,I was referring to a film called White Mischief...the book is much better though.It's based on a true unsolved murder case in the 1940's. Having read the book and there was an article in The Times mag years ago,it's pretty obvious the husband did it. The wife went on to marry the character John Hurt played.....I think he was the richest man in Happy Valley... and Diana Broughton was not a nice lady.

Google is great...just found this: http://www.suntimes.co.za/1998/08/09/lifestyle/life02.htm

A most respected "gentleman"

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/p...ng/founders.htm

Looks like nothing has changed in Happ Valley....

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh...28/ixworld.html

Apologies for these links.This is what happens with me and google.

Wow! Amazing playing...and i never used to like Rachmaninov but now i do!

I wish I could hear it, but my music player doesn't seem to be working.

Car Expert