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Jenni Browning's avatar

Brilliant, but please tell me there’s video of the “nicely done dance.”

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Jeremy Denk's avatar

i mean, there could be

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the_eternal_paradox's avatar

this is like the way I write about pieces I enjoy, too, and it makes me feel giddy to read another's rambles that I feel in my soul (though I haven't listened seriously to this particular piece yet. Time to fix that!)

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Brian Pond's avatar

As with your book, I love reading about the deeper story a piece has to tell, especially apropos it’s composition. The appreciation for the way a composer plays within the framework of music theory always leaves me feeling awe and also envy because I wish I understood it all even a fraction as well as you do!

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Jeremy Denk's avatar

thank you…

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Laura's avatar

"Acid reflux of the soul" is a keeper, lol.

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Brandt Schneider's avatar

fellow obie 91 here. love reading your stuff.

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Anna Schott's avatar

Here for the partita. I find myself forever apologizing to Bach. I'm never sure what he wanted but know however I'm playing isn't it. Sometimes I feel like my entire musical life is an apology to Bach.

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Jeremy Denk's avatar

i’d argue he wants your devotion more than your apology

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Dan Schmidt's avatar

This inspired me to read through the whole Partita again for the first time in a while, and in fact it feels like every movement of it begins rather unassumingly, as if the whole suite is a warmup for the complete set.

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Susan Taylor's avatar

I sent this to my piano teacher saying that except for the waking up in bed with an opera singer part, it would be the perfect thing to share with her students attempting the first partita (except for me and one other person, her students are quite young). But I liked that part. And as a former mezzo (those days are gone, alas), I felt the vocal warm up part literally viscerally!

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Jeremy Denk's avatar

i could put on a more chaste beginning i suppose for young people! :)

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