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Piano Performance Festival Collection™ - Vol 2A The Piano Performance Festival Collection™ - Volume 2A is a collection of 11 choice keyboard works that span the 18th and early 19th centuries. The album ref...

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North Carolina Music Teachers Association

We are delighted to see so many SuperScore publications being showcased at the North Carolina Music Teachers Association conference this weekend. Thank you, Frank Pittman, for this PANC Publications exhibit and for featuring publications from Gingher Publications and Idée Reprise Music Editions!

THE DANGER OF BRAVURA.

There is something about all of us that fascinates us with anything that is showy. When we have a piece that "goes off" like a lot of fireworks, it intrigues us. Such pieces are dangerous; they lead one away from the finer side of one's art.

In bravura playing, the spirit and character of the piece is everything. Bravura playing is daring. One elects to play a brilliant passage, takes a chance, and accomplishes it. One is thrilled with success and then proceeds to waste valuable time in developing it to the disadvantage of other phases of technic.

Bravura playing is also attempted all too early by students.
They want to play the Tchaikowsky Concerto before they can properly play a Czerny exercise. I once found one student who didn't know anything but bravura pieces. He was able to astonish all his relatives, but could not dream of giving a well-balanced program before a musical audience.

Another danger of bravura is that many seem to look upon it as a kind of musical scrimmage. As the tempo and the dynamic force are increased in a brilliant passage, the notes become more obscured and confused, the octaves are mixed up and the trills mussy. Good bravura playing is just the opposite, and as the effect begins to "soar and resound" there should be more and more clarity.

Josef Lhévinne

NEW RELEASE

Piano Performance Festival Collection - Volume 1 CONTENTS Air in B-flat Major, HWV 471 - George Frideric Handel Allegro in C Major - Johann Hässler German Dance in A Major, WoO 42, No. 4 - Ludwig van Beethoven Humming…