Sunday, May 11, 2008

Wieniawski Dudziarz

Another Grade 8 exam music. Well, it is a show piece. Many fun parts to slide around, showing off the shifting skills, and the flare of showmanship. The challenge is to convince the students to show their confidence in the tone, whether they know the notes or not. It is funny that there are some people who do that all the time. But these are usually the rare few. If they don't do well, it leaves many in the audience cringing for them, at the same time admiring their guts to showoff something that they don't really have to show off on.

Well, that is for the audience who knows the music. What if the audience does not know the music? Playing with a flare will make it a good show, a good show that audience can appreciate better than a very orderly and tamed performance. For Dudziarz, there is nothing tame or timid about the music. There are some refined tone, some pacing, before exploding into rowdy dance tune. Leave the orderly and elegance to Baroque or Classical music.

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