Rehearsal for Graduation Piano Recital
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Graduation recital is the most important recital if you are a music student. Spending 4 years in music school, this is the day you're waiting for. For some people it may be the first time you have your own solo recital, but it may also be someone's last solo recital. It's not very easy to stay on the stage for an hour (the recital is supposed to be at least an hour), being watched by many people, including your family, teachers, friends, or even strangers. There is a saying that goes "One minute on the stage, ten years of practice off the stage." Well, so if we have to stay on the stage for one hour, does it mean that we need six hundred years of practice off the stage?! 😟 So we need to live at least 7 lives and keep practicing this instrument in order to give a good performance, oh my!
Every performance deserves (at least) a good rehearsal. Of course we should rehearse many many times in the practice room, but there might be only one chance to rehearse on the stage where you'll be having your actual performance. My graduation piano recital was on 06/05/2013, and I got to book a date for rehearsal just 2 days before my recital, so I treated it as the real performance, and I recorded the whole thing so as to watch how I deal with it.
I had been in that concert hall many times for chorus classes, and some other classes as well, but this was the first time I played that piano as a soloist. As you can see, unexpectedly there's someone talking, and there's a lady cleaning, but I tried to focus on the piano because this is also what we might encounter on the performance day. Probably no one would be cleaning, but there still might be someone coughing, talking, walking, shaking (?) (just kidding haha), or kids crying. So we need to prepare for every possibility. The piano on the stage is going to be very different from the piano you're playing every day, and you don't really have the chance to get familiar with it, so you'll just have to adjust yourself immediately and make your fingers feel comfortable on that piano. What's really important is to trust that piano and believe you can make beautiful music on that piano like you always do with your own piano.
I think I didn't do it well on the ornaments, especially left hand. Also, a lot of spots I didn't play it evenly. And in Corrente my left hand somehow stopped, but thankfully I didn't stop the whole thing. Instead, I got my left hand back after a while. On the stage, it's vital to keep the music going on and never give up. You have to go all the way till the end. Once you start the music, there is no turning back. To play from the first note till the last note is something very pleasant and it does take courage.
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Every performance deserves (at least) a good rehearsal. Of course we should rehearse many many times in the practice room, but there might be only one chance to rehearse on the stage where you'll be having your actual performance. My graduation piano recital was on 06/05/2013, and I got to book a date for rehearsal just 2 days before my recital, so I treated it as the real performance, and I recorded the whole thing so as to watch how I deal with it.
I had been in that concert hall many times for chorus classes, and some other classes as well, but this was the first time I played that piano as a soloist. As you can see, unexpectedly there's someone talking, and there's a lady cleaning, but I tried to focus on the piano because this is also what we might encounter on the performance day. Probably no one would be cleaning, but there still might be someone coughing, talking, walking, shaking (?) (just kidding haha), or kids crying. So we need to prepare for every possibility. The piano on the stage is going to be very different from the piano you're playing every day, and you don't really have the chance to get familiar with it, so you'll just have to adjust yourself immediately and make your fingers feel comfortable on that piano. What's really important is to trust that piano and believe you can make beautiful music on that piano like you always do with your own piano.
I think I didn't do it well on the ornaments, especially left hand. Also, a lot of spots I didn't play it evenly. And in Corrente my left hand somehow stopped, but thankfully I didn't stop the whole thing. Instead, I got my left hand back after a while. On the stage, it's vital to keep the music going on and never give up. You have to go all the way till the end. Once you start the music, there is no turning back. To play from the first note till the last note is something very pleasant and it does take courage.
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