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Hi, I fixed it for you (you have to take the s out of the https for it to work). I'm glad we're getting new members. It's a great thread, you should start at the beginning, lots of nice music.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V7a4Chq3Ts[/youtube]

Another favorite of mine. Never fails to cheer me up. This guy played the song well. He didn't even use any music sheets!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geER3iQDO5k[/youtube]

OP said Philip Glass is classical so I assume the wizard Terry Riley fits the topic:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc2G5b5NvE4[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jvOTXLka08&list=PL4E0E2BBBA9A8A4E9[/youtube]
[Mod. edit: Please note - YouTube video embedding will not work when the URL starts with "https" (this is also true for image embedding).
The URLs have been edited from "https" to "http" so that the videos are now embedded in the post]

Gibbons

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62n2cZWnk50[/youtube]

??? I'm not a new member, I just don't post a lot. Kind of funny for you to say that when you started here in 2013 and I did in 2012. No biggie though, that just sounded funny to me. I'm sure there are a lot of lurkers here like I used to be who we don't all get very familiar with.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuY3rFa0jnw[/youtube]

I'm pretty sure that she meant new member to this thread, since it's been mostly the same people posting in here for a while.

Yep, that's what I meant!

For sure, well let's forget about that blunder of mine and enjoy some music:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqODySSxYpc[/youtube]

Not what you'd typically expect from Schoenberg, eh? At heart he was always different from Boulez and Stravinsky, they hated that he wasn't actually a modernist.

Doh! You beat me to it. lol I came back to the thread to post some of my favourite piano pieces that I learned during the years I took lessons and one of them was going to be a Schubert Impromptu. lol

Some piano pieces I learned over the years that I've always loved (although I'm sure I don't sound like this when I play them lol):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYinMLiPQC8[/youtube]

I had no idea it was this fast until recently when I started looking at youtube videos of pieces I used to play. my teacher must have forgot to mention it to me! I've started trying to speed it up (easier said than done).
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YXrn2vxndY[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXv9Fc3VSD0[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGdpRmL2XUc[/youtube]

Again, sorry if I've (or someone else has) already posted some of these. lol

And a couple more:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRu0LC85jk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMom1VCQWDA[/youtube]

a Rossini by any other name...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRjm0dkLO3k[/youtube]

Mexican composer Arturo Márquez was born in Álamos, Sonora in 1950 where his interest in music began. Márquez's father was a mariachi musician in Mexico and Los Angeles, and his paternal grandfather was a Mexican folk musician in Sonora and Chihuahua. Because of Márquez's father and grandfather, he was exposed to several musical styles in his childhood, particularly Mexican "salon music" which would be the impetus for his later musical repertoire.

Although Márquez was already an accomplished composer in Mexico, his music started to reach the international stage with the introduction of his series of Danzones in the early 1990s. The Danzones are based on the music of Cuba and the Veracruz region of Mexico.

¡Que chevere!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA7vEIj6Lzk[/youtube]

G. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Love the pianist in this. He's so passionate in his music!


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLTManObB40[/youtube]

I watched a 14 year old kid play this flawlessly once. It was depressing, since I'd been playing twice as long as he had at the time and there's no way I could ever play that one. lol It was fun playing in the orchestra though. It has to be one of the most difficult pieces of piano music in existence, but also possibly one of the coolest.

Nights like These said:

My brother's high school concert band played it for fun in class. It's definitely hard to play. I can see why it would be depressing to see a 14 year perform it perfectly. I wouldn't feel too bad about it though. The fact that you played in an orchestra demonstrates that you have musical talent. That's something to be proud of.