thal was here before i was. he was on yesterday.

[pianistimo]

i was merely reading the threads.  his name was glommed onto the screen list of users who were logged in.  therefore...i'm back.

besides.  i have to get back into practicing gradually.  just can't handle five hours of practice anymores. 

i'm getting better at this 'isle of joy.'  it's actually great fun. 

[pianowolfi]

ahahahahahah this is insane. insane. Why do you come back now and open healing wounds after you have left and broken the hearts of all pianoforumers?

[pianistimo]

i thought the poll said noone cared if we came back.  sorry.

[wishful thinker]

Welcome back Susan 

What have you been practising for 5 hours a day?

[pianowolfi]

i thought the poll said noone cared if we came back.  sorry.

Yes but there were only 20 votes. Not representative.

[nicco]

Hey welcome back ^^ Now do your thing and get thal here

[pianistimo]

he'll be on today.  i don't care if he ignores me.  it'll all catch up to him at 5,000 ft. on mt blanc.  i know this because i watched reruns of climbs on mt everest.  the guides friends are all frozen at the top.  they have to walk past them - thinking how it could've been them.  the good thing about thal is that he's too stubborn to die.  so, he'll probably be like the amputee that made everyone carry him down.  the sherpas are amazing.  they carry people like backpacks.  but, finally, they tied him in a sled (with only his pickax to stop him).  thankfully, they didn't let him go for the ride of his life.

[tds]

is that you, susan?

[pianistimo]

yes.  it is truly i.  after three days you don't recognize me?  i have revived.  too much piano practice - and also, i am working on a kindergarten musical of sorts.  i have vamped up the piano parts so that the ABC song sounds actually quite fantastic.  we're having our first practice next monday and so i thought they could warm them up on a song they know - and then move by half-steps into twinkle, twinkle, and baa baa black sheep.  i have it all practiced now - along with 'you ain't never had a friend like me' and our kindergarten song 'we are family.'  you wouldn't believe how i can play that song!  i'm really jiving now.  if only james brown were alive.  (sisters sledge would be proud of me).

i'm actually helping with the entire musical (kindergarten through fifth grade) by playing stuff in between acts, too.  so between the 'isle of joy' and this entire musical - i'm keeping busy.  also, i've been reworking some scarlatti, a beethoven sonata (not sure which one i'll tape) maybe waldstein, mozart fantasy, and isle of joy.  also, i printed out that entire dvorak poetic moods and sightread through a bunch of it.  some of the songs are in very wierd keys.  good sightreading practice i guess.

btw, in between acts - i have most of the variations on twinkle, twinkle that mozart wrote.  i'll just pick one out of the blue.  they'll be like - wow - we have to ask her to help us with the musical next year.  then, i'll be stuck in low level job for five more years.  i don't care - sometimes - other times i think...hmm.  i could be getting paid for this.

this gives me an idea, though.  they are recording the concert.  i could play isle of joy as everyone leaves - then put on the entire concert video of the kids and me and you'd hear isle of joy at the end. 

[wishful thinker]

sorry if this sounds dumb  but what is "isle of joy" ?

[pianowolfi]

is that you, susan?

no it's not her. i hacked her account

[wishful thinker]

have you had the necessary neurolic work done? 

[pianistimo]

you don't know about debussy's 'the isle of joy?'  well, it's a clandestine island that noone knew about excepting prisoners that never escaped.  liszt wrote of it as 'isle of the dead.'  debussy - preferring the lighter version - illuminated it as a place in the mind that you can be joyful even if the island itself is dismal.  as accounted by the lady who took morphine and kept a diary of how this island of 'joy' kept her from the pain of her condition. 

and, of course, debussy's own little isle of joy - in which he retreated one fine day only to find weeks later that he had progeny.  but, no matter.  he was in love with the lady.  that's what happens when you have too much joy on your island.

well, as a first hand witness to the shipwrecks on this island - i can say that the ship gets rebuilt when the children go to school.  plank by plank.  you build another boat - just get floating and voila - too much joy again and you have another one.  seriously, though - i think children themselves are another form of an 'isle of joy.'  i just bought the little one a harmonica yesterday.  a good one, too.  not one of those plastic party favors.  she is beside herself and joyfully playing it all the time.  big brother is angry i bought it.

[wishful thinker]

Ah, OK, L'Isle joyeuse

Not a fan of old Claude, bit syruppy 

[berrt]

no it's not her. i hacked her account

Susan is unhackable  Noone could fake her stile of writing.

B.

[soliloquy]

Last Active:     January 04, 2007, 10:32:29 PM


true.  Thal is cheating.

[ahinton]

Susan is unhackable  Noone could fake her stile of writing.

B.

I don't know about the extent to which she may or may not be "unhackable", but I think that her style of writing could indeed be faked by someone with sufficient perception and patience to master its various characteristics - not that I am suggesting that anyone should try, mind...

Best,

Alistair

[ihatepop]

Welcome back Susan 

Back? She did'nt even leave.

Welcome back, though.

ihatepop

[gymnopedist]

Ah, OK, L'Isle joyeuse

Not a fan of old Claude, bit syruppy 

But it's all so windy and scented!

L'isle joyeuse is a fantastic piece, imo. Pianistimo, you should play masques and d'un cahier d'esquisses as well, as those three pieces go wonderfully together. They were actually conceived as a suite.

[pianistimo]

hmmm.  might just print those out right now.  the dvorak is too shocking afterwards.

[counterpoint]

you don't know about debussy's 'the isle of joy?'  well, it's a clandestine island that noone knew about excepting prisoners that never escaped.  liszt wrote of it as 'isle of the dead.'  debussy - preferring the lighter version - illuminated it as a place in the mind that you can be joyful even if the island itself is dismal.  as accounted by the lady who took morphine and kept a diary of how this island of 'joy' kept her from the pain of her condition. 

wikipedia (french version) tells us

"L'Isle joyeuse a été inspirée par une oeuvre de Watteau de 1717, L'Embarquement pour Cythère."

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Isle_joyeuse_(Debussy)


So "Isle of Joy" is definitely not Liszt's  Rachmaninov's "Isle of the dead"

[pianistimo]

it's all in the mind.  just joking.  yes. i was aware of this island of cythera.  iumonito's thread 'piano competition 2007' got me looking into it.  i researched it a bit and wrote some on that thread from several sources on debussy awhile back.

sometimes you look at a piece from different angles.  debussy often did this himself.  putting several meanings into a piece and not just one.  in fact, he wrote some love messages in a few of the pages of 'the isle of joy' for ms. bardac.