So we had our college music department fundraiser last night, and I had a good time and I think I did pretty well all things considered, but oh my gosh! It was so stressful! So for our fundraiser we have every ensemble play, in addition to several piano students in between the choir and chamber singers. I was in everything except the Guitar ensemble, and I'm so tired, haha! But I'm going to leave you with the names of the pieces that me and my boyfriend played in the interlude between choir and chambers. I would leave you with videos, but I had to download finale notepad and it's killing my computer and videos won't load anymore. Hmph. Anyway, itt was really nice of the piano teacher to let me play flute in addition to piano! Our teacher is very gruff and Russian, but she is one of the most honest people in the world, so when she tells you that you're doing a good job... you really know it. We appreciate her so much!
So first I played the excerpt from Ravel's piano concerto in G major, my family had never heard me perform it before, so it was really nice for me to play it for them
Next, my boyfriend and I played the first movement of the Mother Goose suite by Ravel, it's a duet, and I've written about it before, it's very cute!
After that I played something on solo flute, this is Tango Etude no. 5 by Astor Piazzolla. It's a really amazing piece, full of passion and fire.
My boyfriend likes to play music by Mexican composers, and it's so cool that he was able to bring recognition to these underrated guys last night. The first one is Gavota by Manuel Ponce, and the second one is Cuban Dance no. 7 by Mario Ruiz Armengol. The Gavota is very tender and lyrical, which contrasted nicely with the Cuban Dance, which was rhythmic and cheerful. Full of jazz chords too, it sounded so cool.
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