I have been going through another phase where I listen to The People United Will Never Be Defeated, a gargantuan, 50 minute piano piece by Rzewski. The piece goes down without a doubt as my favorite slice of music of 2008.
Fiercely difficult, I have been playing the piano more, and use parts of this piece as warm up and a break from the main piece I have been practicing, Chopin's "Ocean" Etude, op. 25 no. 12. I continue making very slow progress on The People United -- more a passing interest than something I'm actively working on. But one of the days, when my chops are a little higher, it will be tackled.
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Man, I'm glad to hear that the piano isn't just something from the past for you. That's what happened to me, I think party because I was self-taught. Whatever talent I had was always mitigated by that, and I never wanted to go through the effort to re-learn.
But you were always incredibly gifted and well trained! You should do some "Music Reviews" like I do on my blog of some good piano composers that we all might not be aware of.
Cheers!
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