I made it through my recital! And I'm EXHAUSTED!! The thing ended up being 90 minutes long because of set up and tear-down of the Crumb piece we did.
Overall, it went well. I was only thrilled with one piece in its entirety...but all of the others were much longer anyway. The first movement of the first piece was a little shaky...I had trouble sort of reigning it in because of nerves, but had the thing under my control by the end of the movement. The next 2 movements were fine, but something weird happened in the audience during the 3rd movement that sort of threw our groove off momentarily.
the crumb was overall really good, except that I couldn't see anyone else in the ensemble because the stage manager put my stand too high. Therefore, a few transitions hesitated a little bit. And the cellist came in a beat early in the last section, but we got back on in a few beats.
The boring French piece went extremely well...other than the whole mysteriously dropping a measure thing and STOPPING FOR A SPLIT SECOND (gggrrrrrr!) to regroup. I'd never done anything like THAT in rehearsal or practice. But that was it...the rest of that whole piece went very, very well.
Charanga I had no major complaints with at all. It was very effective.
Carmen Fantasy had a technical glitch (my fingers hesitated) right in the first section, another baby one in the Habernera and then another one in the last. I was also told my low notes got buried in the last section, but that had more to do with the piano being at full stick than anything else.
I wish it could have been as perfect as it was in practice...I want my performance to be more professional, but then again, the seasoned pro's have performed these piece many, many times and are, well, pro's at them! Repertoire blitzing (cramming as many different pieces into 4 years as you possibly can) is something you do in your undergrad, and these all went really, really well for a first performance.
Overall, it went well. I was only thrilled with one piece in its entirety...but all of the others were much longer anyway. The first movement of the first piece was a little shaky...I had trouble sort of reigning it in because of nerves, but had the thing under my control by the end of the movement. The next 2 movements were fine, but something weird happened in the audience during the 3rd movement that sort of threw our groove off momentarily.
the crumb was overall really good, except that I couldn't see anyone else in the ensemble because the stage manager put my stand too high. Therefore, a few transitions hesitated a little bit. And the cellist came in a beat early in the last section, but we got back on in a few beats.
The boring French piece went extremely well...other than the whole mysteriously dropping a measure thing and STOPPING FOR A SPLIT SECOND (gggrrrrrr!) to regroup. I'd never done anything like THAT in rehearsal or practice. But that was it...the rest of that whole piece went very, very well.
Charanga I had no major complaints with at all. It was very effective.
Carmen Fantasy had a technical glitch (my fingers hesitated) right in the first section, another baby one in the Habernera and then another one in the last. I was also told my low notes got buried in the last section, but that had more to do with the piano being at full stick than anything else.
I wish it could have been as perfect as it was in practice...I want my performance to be more professional, but then again, the seasoned pro's have performed these piece many, many times and are, well, pro's at them! Repertoire blitzing (cramming as many different pieces into 4 years as you possibly can) is something you do in your undergrad, and these all went really, really well for a first performance.
