Every performer’s worst nightmare. This concert pianist instantly realized she had been practicing the wrong piece for this performance. Despite that, she ended up playing the entire concerto from memory, even though it was from the previous year’s repertoire.
Every performer’s worst nightmare. This concert pianist instantly realized she had been practicing the wrong piece for this performance. Despite that, she ended up playing the entire concerto from memory, even though it was from the previous year’s repertoire.
How did they not do a rehearsal together before this? This is obviously not during covid times.
Remote_Marsupial5195 on
Amazing!!!!
Ok_Cut_6167 on
Sister…. How?
Grosjeaner on
Majority of these concert pianists are prodigies and masters of the instrument that can improvise on the spot. The only thing stopping them in such a scenario is really just whether they can get past the mental block of playing an imperfect piece by their own crazy high standard. Most general audience won’t even notice a thing, while those who do would treat it as art and by design.
kindlyneedful on
My neighbour plays the viola in a baroque sextet, and her months are a complete mess, going from a charity gig here, an ad hoc concert there, the regular scheduled programme, and the one or two big thing every month or six weeks, all the while she has rehearsals for all of these, often overlapping but potentially at different venues, just as she’s juggling normal people problems like school drop-offs and car insurance.
Of course she practices the wrong piece from time to time.
Walter_Stonkite on
Sure am glad we only got 27 seconds of it.
MahTwizzah on
Can anyone explain to me why classical musicians always seem like they need a partition to play? Even in the most technical wankery of genres, nobody uses partitions live. You can watch jazz fusion or progressive rock bands ripping the stratosphere for 3 hours straight and there will not be a single partition in sight, yet watch any 5 minutes performance by a classical musician and they’ll have their partition!
devolasreno on
Fantastic. And I love how the conductor is just like, “No big deal! You know this piece! You can do it!”
Error_404_403 on
If it was just a dress rehearsal, why panic? I understand that it wouldn’t be perfect, but the real performance was the next day, so she had this one, plus one more day to recall all details and restore the piece before the performance. It is hard, but doable.
Unusual_Ear_9089 on
One of my proudest moments in my life was when, one day in my high school orchestra (I was a cellist, and really good!) I forgot my sheet music for a song we needed to practice in class. I felt bad for disappointing our pretty strict conductor but Id practiced this song so much I was like I think Ive got this, let me try at least to see what I can do. We started, and I played the whole thing perfectly start to finish. My conductor was impressed and I was on cloud 9 lol. I have a terrible memory in life, but music comes right back to me. Ofc this is nothing compared to what this woman pulled off lol but I felt a small piece of this once and few things in life made me feel cooler haha
makesmovements on
Would anyone be able to name the concerto for m please, I’d like to listen to the whole piece, thanks
EightEight16 on
This is significantly more impressive to non-musicians, but if you’re at this level, it’s completely normal to have previous pieces memorized like this. It is a testament to her nerves, having such an exposed and technical part and still nailing it with no mistakes.
mrsunrider on
That had to be fucking mortifying.
The way she bounced back though? Fuckin insane.
LessBig715 on
Bravo
Denjek on
Am I the only one that saw Whiplash?? Isn’t he supposed to throw a chair at her head or something?
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they don’t do rehearsals or nothing?
How did they not do a rehearsal together before this? This is obviously not during covid times.
Amazing!!!!
Sister…. How?
Majority of these concert pianists are prodigies and masters of the instrument that can improvise on the spot. The only thing stopping them in such a scenario is really just whether they can get past the mental block of playing an imperfect piece by their own crazy high standard. Most general audience won’t even notice a thing, while those who do would treat it as art and by design.
My neighbour plays the viola in a baroque sextet, and her months are a complete mess, going from a charity gig here, an ad hoc concert there, the regular scheduled programme, and the one or two big thing every month or six weeks, all the while she has rehearsals for all of these, often overlapping but potentially at different venues, just as she’s juggling normal people problems like school drop-offs and car insurance.
Of course she practices the wrong piece from time to time.
Sure am glad we only got 27 seconds of it.
Can anyone explain to me why classical musicians always seem like they need a partition to play? Even in the most technical wankery of genres, nobody uses partitions live. You can watch jazz fusion or progressive rock bands ripping the stratosphere for 3 hours straight and there will not be a single partition in sight, yet watch any 5 minutes performance by a classical musician and they’ll have their partition!
Fantastic. And I love how the conductor is just like, “No big deal! You know this piece! You can do it!”
If it was just a dress rehearsal, why panic? I understand that it wouldn’t be perfect, but the real performance was the next day, so she had this one, plus one more day to recall all details and restore the piece before the performance. It is hard, but doable.
One of my proudest moments in my life was when, one day in my high school orchestra (I was a cellist, and really good!) I forgot my sheet music for a song we needed to practice in class. I felt bad for disappointing our pretty strict conductor but Id practiced this song so much I was like I think Ive got this, let me try at least to see what I can do. We started, and I played the whole thing perfectly start to finish. My conductor was impressed and I was on cloud 9 lol. I have a terrible memory in life, but music comes right back to me. Ofc this is nothing compared to what this woman pulled off lol but I felt a small piece of this once and few things in life made me feel cooler haha
Would anyone be able to name the concerto for m please, I’d like to listen to the whole piece, thanks
This is significantly more impressive to non-musicians, but if you’re at this level, it’s completely normal to have previous pieces memorized like this. It is a testament to her nerves, having such an exposed and technical part and still nailing it with no mistakes.
That had to be fucking mortifying.
The way she bounced back though? Fuckin insane.
Bravo
Am I the only one that saw Whiplash?? Isn’t he supposed to throw a chair at her head or something?