To help pass the time, I’m creating this thread for us musicians to show our inner music geekiness. :). Heres a fun table to fill out if you want to.
Instrument:
Years of experience:
Favourite piece:
Favourite Composer:
Favourite opera/overture:
Favourite Symphony:
Best memory of your playing experience:
Piece you are playing:
Favourite Piece you have played:
Instrument: Piano
Years of experience: 7
Favourite piece: La fille aux cheveux de lin
Favourite Composer: Schubert
Favourite opera/overture: (definitely NOT The Magic Flute)
Favourite Symphony: Symphony No. 9 by Dvořák
Best memory of your playing experience: Performing during Sunday Service at a church and playing at numerous Christmas parties.
Piece you are playing: Impromptu by Schubert (op. 90 no. 4) (and more but that’s my current favorite)
Favourite Piece you have played: La fille aux cheveux de lin
Instrument: Violin
Years of experience: 8/9
Favourite piece: Idk, maybe Sarasate Faust Fantasy
Favourite Composer: Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, maybe Brahms.
Favourite opera/overture: I can’t choose, I love a lot of overtures.
Favourite Symphony: THIS. IS. HARD!! I’d say Dvorak Symphony No 8
Best memory of your playing experience: Playing in the United Nations!
Piece you are playing: Working on a lot of pieces.
Favourite Piece you have played: Bruch and Mendelssohn are tied for fave concerto, fave chamber is definitely Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia. Fave non-concerto piece is Sarasate Faust Fantasy.
Instrument: Violin
Years of experience: 6-7
Favourite piece: Beethoven Moonlight Sonata (3rd movement)/Dvorak Cello Concerto
Favourite Composer: Rossini
Favourite opera/overture: La Gazza Ladra/ Tannhäuser I don’t know too many to choose from!
Favourite Symphony: Mahler 2nd symphony
Best memory of your playing experience: Playing Don Giovanni Overture at Carnegie Hall!
Piece you are playing: Bruch Concerto
Favourite Piece you have played: Flying Dutchman Overture/Mendelssohn Concerto
I don’t have a ton of experience but I thought this would be fun so…
Instrument: Clarinet
Years of experience: 2-3
Favourite piece: Folk Dances by Dmitri Shostakovich
Favourite Composer: ?
Favourite opera/overture: ?
Favourite Symphony: Bach’s Sinfonia II
Best memory of your playing experience: Playing for my family
Piece you are playing: Tarantella by ?
Favourite Piece you have played: Bossa Nova by ? (It’s a jazz piece)
instrument: ukelele
years of experience: 3
favourite piece: Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride (Lilo and Stitch)
Best memory of playing experience: Walking around dorms during finals season playing The Lazy Song
Piece You Are Playing: I focus on ukelele during the summer months
Instrument: guitar
Years of experience: 4
Favourite piece: hmmm… “Bring it on Home” by Little Big Town (my favorite cover is by the Bostonians)
Favourite Composer: Taylor Swift?
Best memory of your playing experience: summer campfires
Piece you are playing: I write things, man.
Favourite Piece you have played: “Bring it on Home,” or “Time of Your Life” or “Someday” by Steve Earle
Instrument: ukulele
Years of experience: 1
Best memory of your playing experience: Explo 2K14
Piece you are playing: whatever I want!
Favourite Piece you have played: “Drops of Jupiter” B-)
Instrument: Trombone
Years of experience: 5
Favourite piece: Don’t have one, but I like playing jazz.
Best memory of your playing experience: First concert in 4th grade
Piece you are playing: many different on es
Favourite Piece you have played: Pirates of the Caribbean
Instrument: cello
Years of experience: 4-5
Favourite piece: a three way tie between the Elgar Cello Concerto, the Bruch violin concerto, and Elgar’s enigma variations
Favourite Composer: Elgar, Saint-Saens, and Sibelius
Favourite opera/overture: Overture to Euryanthe
Favourite Symphony: Dvorak New World Symphony
Best memory of your playing experience: ooh, this is hard. Probably playing Elgar’s enigma variations for the first time in front of an audience, the hall had AMAZING acoustics and it sounded beautiful, I’m pretty sure I cried a little XD.
Piece you are playing: Passacaglia by Handel-Halvorsen and an arrangement of Clair de Lune by Debussy (it’s amazing, there’s one on YouTube by Luka Sulic)
Favourite Piece you have played: Prelude to cello suite no. 5