10 years today

[thalbergmad]

Celebrating my first 10 years on this forum and what an experience it has been.

Huge thanks to Nils for keeping this place going. Wish we would hear from him more though.

Thal

[j_menz]

And to celebrate, I found the perfect gift for you...

Look forward to the next 10.  

[perfect_pitch]

And we appreciate your wisdom Thalbergmad...

My 10 year anniversary is still a few months away.   

[diomedes]

And to celebrate, I found the perfect gift for you...

We should make a poll for the best gift for Thal. Everybody pming him every link to every Schumann concerto on yt simultaneously sounds like a decent start. His inbox will explode like Debussy's feux d'artifice, a classy celebration.

In all seriousness, thanks again for the Dreyshock score. Can't wait for when i deal with it.

[rachmforever]

We should make a poll for the best gift for Thal. Everybody pming him every link to every Schumann concerto on yt simultaneously sounds like a decent start. His inbox will explode like Debussy's feux d'artifice, a classy celebration.

In all seriousness, thanks again for the Dreyshock score. Can't wait for when i deal with it.

HAHAHA  I had same idea spammed him with Schuman concerto
anyway big congratulation for 10 years  I hope there will be next 10

[thalbergmad]

And to celebrate, I found the perfect gift for you...

Look forward to the next 10. 

That is very kind of you. I have always wanted an invalid youtube link.

Luv

Thal

[timothy42b]

If he were in the US we could get him an AARP membership.

[Bob]

Congrats.  Here, I got your another ham. 

[ahinton]

Hearty congratulations, Thal!

Time passes faster than most of us realise, I suppose; I only just checked my own statistics here and find that my own 10th anniversary comes up in just a few months' time, which I have to admit did rather surprise me.

An appropriate motto for you might be "banjo - scanjo - pianjo - but not Schumannjo"...

Here's to the next decade. I raise a glass of fine malt Scotch to you!

Very best wishes,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

Damned decent of you old chap

[goldentone]

Wouldn't be Pianostreet without you, Thal.

[ahinton]

Wouldn't be Pianostreet without you, Thal.

That's very true!

Sometimes, the expression "life's a b**ch" can feel apposite; on this hallowed street, however, life's a Britch...

Best,

Alistair

(P.S. - apologies for having originally used a word that's not permitted here; I've edited the amendment to it so that what I meant is understood, but without actually using it as such! I should have remembered that at the time!)...

[ted]

Congratulations Thal. Your earthy humour, broadmindedness and long-running banter with Alistair and Susan conceal a sensitive music lover and a kind man. You give the forum a unique character.

[thalbergmad]

Very kind of you to say so old chap.

[imbetter]

Strange how times flies isn't it? 

[thalbergmad]

Hello old chap. Long time no see.

Thal

[lostinidlewonder]

Welcome to the 10 year club you noob lol

[imbetter]

Hello old chap. Long time no see.

Thal

I guess you could say it's been a while 

[quantum]

Cheers old chap!  Raise a glass to the next 10.

[emill]

Hello Thal,

Would like to confess that I have sought your posts for your brand of "satirical" humour!!
It has on innumerable times "made my day" !!!!  
It has been my pleasure to occasionally interact with you.  

emill

[thalbergmad]

Damned decent of you to say so sir.

Thal

[ahinton]

I've often wondered whose idea it was to have Marc-André Hamelin pictured thus in from of the score of a work that I've never heard him play and which I'm not even sure is in his repertoire!...

Best,

Alistair

[quantum]

Likely because it was the most photogenic score available at the time.

[chopinlover01]

I'm a little over a month late, but congratulations on 10 years! I, still being a student, love to hear your wise and very clear advice.

[thalbergmad]

Where did you hear my wise advice

Thal

[chopinlover01]

Many places.
"Play the Saint-Saens. The Beethoven and Grieg are played to death and the Mendelssohn is immemorable. Play Schumann if you want to come in last."

[thalbergmad]

Sounds like sound advice

[8_octaves]

I hope new members are allowed to congratulate, too?

So I'll do, Mr. Thalberg "Old Arpeggio".

Congratulations for such a long time on the forum, and for so many helpful postings, as I could estimate by glance!!

And, moreover, wouldn't it be a major fauxpas, if Gottschalk didn't congratulate Thalberg?  Because,  there was, in former times, when these two met in the USA, the incident known as the "Great Non-Battle", consisting of a series of concerts in which both of the pianists took part: People at once had split up in "Gottschalkians" and "Thalbergians", awaiting and promoting a great piano-battle of the 2 virtuosos, but the "battle" didn't happen the way people had thought or had hoped, since reviews, which are VERY interesting to read, show us today, that the performances ended with a draw and led to further meetings on a friendly basis!

So, I hope I haven't made a fauxpas while congratulating as a newbie here, and I stay, with

cordial greetings,

 8 (minus one)_octaves!

[thalbergmad]

I would have loved to have heard the famous Gottschalk/Thalberg 4 hand Verdi transcription.

Thal

[8_octaves]

I would have loved to have heard the famous Gottschalk/Thalberg 4 hand Verdi transcription.

Thal

You surely mean the "farewell"-concert at Niblo's Saloon!
Yes! It must have been unbelievable!     Sources say the following:

"[...]The farewell concert at Niblo's Saloon on December 26th [1856] built into a landmark event. Thalberg had already agreed to join Moreau, and since he was to depart shortly thereafter for New England, it became a joint concert d'adieu. To top it off, Gottschalk announced that he and Thalberg would premier a new "Grand Duo di bravura" on Verdi's "Il Trovatore", an opera that had been all the rage since its New York premiere in 1855. As the finale of the two virtuosos' New York season, this show-stopper offered thunder, lightning, and a hailstorm of arpeggios and tremolos culminating in the "Anvil Chorus".
"An extraordinary production", declared the "Times". In a seismographic report on the piece, Richard Hoffman announced that it produced "the most prodigious volume of tone I ever heard from the piano," especially the "remarkable double shake which Thalberg played in the middle of the piano, while Gottschalk was flying all over the keyboard.[...]"

(But, as sources say, even this wasn't their last performance as a team: they played, again, together in Albany, on 27th January.).-

Here https://www.gottschalk.fr/index.php/en/gottschalk-s-eng/biographie-s-eng

it is stated, that the "Grand duo di bravura", which T. and G. played together, was originally a version of the "Miserere" (for 2 pianos arranged)....hm... . (thinking.., because: Did they modify it and played it on ONE piano (4hd), as the source seems to suggest, or did they play it on two pianos?)...

...however:
 
Of the "Miserere" itself there at least exists a piano solo-version, as sheet music (RO 171),

https://imslp.org/wiki/Miserere_du_Trovatore,_Op.52_%28Gottschalk,_Louis_Moreau%29

and maybe a one piano 4 hd version (RO 172). ( Schott, 1878 ) .

The score, I think, then, to the (no. Corrected: a) 2 piano-version they actually had played, seems to be lost: That's really sad! At least I couldn't find it at the moment. But the work is listed as RO 267:

https://thompsonian.info/gottschalk-catalogue.html

And Thalberg himself, as you, @thal, 1000% know, composed the following work which deals with the "Trovatore", too, and which looks mindblasting and awesome, so, I think, we shouldn't mourn, if RO 267 was really lost:  

https://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/9/9c/IMSLP07114-Thalberg_verdi_trovatore_op77.pdf

Nevertheless, @thalbergmad: Please keep on celebrating!!

Best wishes for the future, and cordially, 8_octaves!!

[Siberian Husky]

It's definitely been interesting!

[thalbergmad]

I say old chap, how are you?

[Siberian Husky]

Still wondering if you'll send over that nissan 180sx my way.

[thalbergmad]

Sold it to a drifter old boy. Now I am Audi man.

Thal

[Siberian Husky]

Sold it to a drifter old boy. Now I am Audi man.

Thal

This saddens me.

[perfect_pitch]

I've been here over 14 years...