New Years!

[liszmaninopin]

If you feel like it, share your plans for the new year on this thread.
I hope to do 3 main things:
Start a home business
Begin a legitimate exercise program
Expand my piano repertoire, I hope to learn the following over 2004.
1.  A new Beethoven Sonata (not sure which one yet)
2.  Bach Prelude and Fugue #6 from book 1 of WTC.
3.  Debussy's Ballade and Arabesque #1.
4.  Ravel's Ondine
5.  Rachmaninoff's Concerto #2, Sonata #1 (at least in part), some etudes, learning toward op. 39 #6 at first.
6.  If possible, Violette's Sonata 6.
7.  I will begin work on Liszt's B minor Sonata.
8.  Probably Prokofiev Tocatta op. 11.

I know that the above sounds kind of over-ambitious, but I enjoy all these pieces. (except the Bach)  If I succeed in learning them, my technique would be strengthened greatly, and I'd start having a really interesting repertoire.  If anybody can suggest any changes, additions, deletions, etc., I would appreciate it.

[meiting]

Well.. I plan on doing a lot, but I don't know how much of it will get done. Here's the list.

#1: Practice.
#2: Practice.
#3: Practice.
#4: Practice.

OK, just joking here's the real list.

#1: make new website.
#2: travel around the world (or at least Italy, Budapest, Vienna, Warsaw, Krakow, Paris, China, and North Carolina;D)
#3: Start running (while in Italy)
#4: Take some nice pictures of objects in the sky. (also in Italy)
#5: play more computer games!!
#6: update current website.
#7: practice. And learn the following:

the rest of the Beethoven sonatas.
15+ more new scarlatti sonatas
Beethoven Choral fantasy (seeing I have to perform it mid-year.. i better learn it!)
Schumann Kriesleriana
Bach Partita No. 4
Pick 2 Mozart sonatas and learn them
Bartok concerto #3
Chopin Preludes
Rachmaninoff concerto #2 (Hey something in common!)
Liszt B minor Sonata (Something ELSE in common!)
and Bach's Goldberg variations. That (except for the beethoven sonatas) I'll try to do in the first 6 months. The beethoven sonatas will at least take me to October.

Then it's time for some fun......

mt

[Chitch]

1. Buy a shovel to keep the snow off of my driveway during the upcoming harsh, Canadian winter. *Sigh*

[dinosaurtales]

Well, Let's see if I can put together a realistic list this year:

Get a better, longer term, more lucrative project (I've been on dinky short termers lately - burn out!)

Pay off a big chunk of the piano!

Finish up Beethoven's Appassionata, Chopin Nocturne op9 #2, Prokofiev Sonata #2 (although i am starting to re-think it - it's a bit *reachy* for my hands and it hurts to work on it, takes away the fun of doing it).  Don't know what other pieces will pop up.

Practice more on the clarinet.

Investigate various master degree programs around here for my *sebatical* -  hopefully in two years I'll get to do it - finally!

Keep playing hockey.  It's just too much fun.

Do one of my next gardening projects - yet to be determined.

That's it.  Italy's for my 50th !

What kind of home business are you looking into, List......opin?