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[skye]

What is everyone working on musically right now?

Currently I'm studying Handel's Sonata No. 3, Corelli's La Folia, Millionare's Hoedown by Clebanoff. I'm also working on excerpts from Elgar's Enigma Variations, a symphonic orchestral piece that most college symphonies wouldn't dare touch. It's very hard, lots of shifts and tempos reaching half-note = 144. It's a... work in progress, to say the least...

So what's everyone else up to?

[Minty]

Half-note = 144? Lets hope there aren't too many sixteenth notes in that passage

Performance-wise I've been working on the Bergmann Sonata for DR & Pno, which is on the current grade 8 list. Then I'm expecting my grade pieces to be delivered this week for my Trinity exam this summer.

For my AS exam I've been studying Sacred Vocal Music: O Wilhelme, pastor bone - Taverner, In ecclesiis - G. Gabrieli, Cantata No. 48, "Ich elender Mensch": movements I-IV - J. S. Bach, "Quoniam tu solus" from The Nelson Mass - Haydn, Locus iste - Bruckner, Symphony of Psalms: movement III - Stravinsky and The Lamb - Tavener.

Then from the Music for Film and Television module: On the Waterfront: Symphonic Suit (Opening) - Leonard Bernstein, Passport to Pimlico: The Siege of Burgundy - Georges Auric, Planet of the Apes: The Hunt - Jerry Goldsmith, ET: Flying Theme - John Williams, Morse on the Case - Barrington Pheloung and Titanic: "Take her to sea, Mr Murdoch" - James Horner.

{minty}