Need help naming a piece

[BoliverAllmon]

Can someone help refresh my memory?

I competed in a competition a few years back and the winning piece was beautiful, but I can't remember which piece it was.

The piece was written after 1950, it was a multi-mvt piece, and one of the mvts was an etude for the LH only.

Any ideas?

[retrouvailles]

John Corigliano's Etude Fantasy sounds like a nice candidate.

Also, wow, I haven't seen you on any forums in years. What brings you back from the hiatus?

[BoliverAllmon]

yeah that was the piece.

Thanks for naming it.

I joined the ARMY nearly 5 years back. I mentioned it to the board here and several people hoped that I would go to Iraq and get my hands blown off. Someone I deserved that.

So if that was the maturity level of the board, I have no time for it.

[lostinidlewonder]

I'm impressed at your musical quiz ability retrouvailles!

BoliverAllmon it has been a long time since I've seen you post too. I think the maturity level of the board has changed (admin jumps on abuse a lot faster nowadays).

Hope you start posting again hopefully, we need some old members back! Now I have to check youtube to see what this piece sounds like

[BoliverAllmon]

The piece sounds like I was out of my league during the competition. I played Shosty prelude in E flat maj. Beautiful piece but not in the same league

[Bob]

Having your hands blown off during a performance sounds more like a post-Cage concept, doesn't it?  Cage wasn't the "throw a live bomb into the audience" guy, was he?  That was after him I think.

[retrouvailles]

Having your hands blown off during a performance sounds more like a post-Cage concept, doesn't it?  Cage wasn't the "throw a live bomb into the audience" guy, was he?  That was after him I think.

Nope, that was Philip Corner who wrote that piece. Also, one of the stipulations of that piece was to cancel the performance right before it was scheduled to occur.