Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Telemann: 168 Keyboard Pieces, TWV 36:64: Menuet: Die Blumen deiner schönen Wangen

 

Earlier this month, I was reviewing what pieces I'd done from Telemann's 168 Keyboard Pieces, TWV 36, and I discovered that I'd misunderstood something in the notation of No. 64, which resulted in my unknowingly playing a wrong note.  I'd thought that one note was a D flat because it looks like a D flat, but I know now from having gone through a number of movements from Telemann's ouvertures that he uses a flat sign to cancel out a sharp, so - if my understanding is correct - the flat sign in front of this particular D indicates that it should be played not as a D sharp, like the note in the previous measure, but as a D natural instead.  Since accidentals are reset in every measure in modern notation, it's really a superfluous marking.

Anyway, I felt I had to re-do the piece and play the correct note.

Here's my revised, modernized notation:

Saturday, July 27, 2024

Chicago Live at Tanglewood (Lenox, MA), 21 July 1970

A number of years ago, I watched this concert by Chicago and noticed that Robert Lamm plays a Pianet N.  Earlier this week, it was the fifty-fourth anniversary of the concert, and I watched it again so I could post it here.


Below is the set list from the video description (although it fails to identify the first song).  Lamm plays Pianet in every song but "I'm a Man," which is the encore.

  • [unidentified song]
  • "In the Country"
  • "Free Form Piano"
  • "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"
  • "25 or 6 to 4"
  • "Poem for the People"
  • "I Don't Want Your Money"
  • "Mother"
  • "It Better End Soon"
  • "Beginnings"
  • "Make Me Smile" / "So Much To Say, So Much To Give"
  • "Colour My World" / "Make Me Smile"
  • "I'm a Man"