To all EA musicians/artists

<p>I TRY for 3 hours a day-- as if that would be enough, even if I managed it... In reality, it varies. Sometimes it really is 3 hours a day, or even more; sometimes, very very little. It's HARD trying to balance music and academics, there's no way around it.</p>

<p>I also applied RD and sent in a flute CD. I played the Hindemith Sonata. Depending on the level of playing, I think a CD can help quite a bit. </p>

<p>I applied to Stanford EA and sent in a CD and was accepted, although I'm not exactly sure how much the CD helped.</p>

<p>Hindemith sonata.. only one piece? Great choice, though.</p>

<p>--... 22 hours/week is already too much.. with all the school stuff i have. lol</p>

<p>Are any RD applicants sending visual arts portfolios?</p>

<p>I am sending in a portfolio of my metal work, drawing, and photograph and my film portfolio..what are you sending kebree?</p>

<p>Yeah, i just did one piece, since it was about 15 minutes all together.</p>

<p>hey- stressedoutsenior</p>

<p>What other pieces do you think make up a good repertoire? My friends are applying to Harvard as well, and when I told them what my repertoire was like, they said forget it.. lol. My teacher and their teachers are chinese.. so they don't know much about american college repertoire. </p>

<p>What other flute pieces are good choices? Do you know where i can find more information about this?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

<p>piano
I don't know what to send. I sent in a beethoven sonata, debussy, bartok for columbia but the sonata was not played too well...I don't want to send only one piece in, but I'm not sure about the time period difference and such. Would it be smart to send in a prelude and fugue adding on to a contemporary piece?</p>

<p>got deferred : (</p>

<p>gonna bring out the big guns and send erlkonig for solo violin and ysaye sonata no3 and maybe a bartok solo sonata</p>

<p>For a violinist, how are Lalo Symphonie Espagnol and Saint-Saens Concerto?</p>

<p>I'm a pianist applying RD, and I'm about to make a recording of Beethoven's 32 Variations in C minor. Is this "impressive" enough? It sounds pretty simple, but some variations are really tough. It's a relatively unknown piece. Would this hurt me? Here's a link to a professional recording of it: <a href="http://www.menedis.net/listen/files/beethoven32variations.mp3%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.menedis.net/listen/files/beethoven32variations.mp3&lt;/a>
This is not me playing, but I could make a recording of a similar caliber. Is this a good enough piece?</p>

<p>ForeverZero: Lord yes! If anyone listening plays piano, they'll be impressed that you even attempted it! That is a very difficult, and very magisterial piece. But you must play it well!
Lightning dragon: Lalo and St.-Saens are both good selections. S-S is certainly less fakeable. In my opinion, it is better music. However, it is obviously less flashy. I would go with S-S, personally, just because I like it and play it well, but if Lalo floats your boat, it would work fine. My words of warning would be that Lalo is an extremely popular piece for high school fiddlers, and that sending both might be a bad idea, since they're in similar veins.</p>

<p>Safiamilke: I'm sending a portfolio (of slides) with oil paintings, watercolor paintings and drawings. Mine are representational. (My homepage is a link to an online portfolio, but here it is again: <a href="http://artattack.to/display.php?artist=1000001376%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://artattack.to/display.php?artist=1000001376&lt;/a> )</p>

<p>Good luck in RD!</p>

<p>Kebree,
Your work is amazing. The way you use light is really great. You manage to have photo-realism in your paintings, while still using your own style...My drawing is far worse...haha...lots of lightbulbs, and self-portraits...I just hope my photo and metal work gets me somewhere...</p>

<p>Thanks!
And metal work should definitely help---a problem with my portfolio is that everything is very much 2-D. Ah well. I'll see what happens.</p>

<p>no offense, dawgfather, but you do not have that extensive a repertoire. at least not at ages 16-18. either you're lying, or you have no musical ability whatsoever. the rach 3 is one of the hardest concerti in the world, many ADULT PROFESSIONALS do not attempt this piece. personally, i'd laugh my head off at a 17-year old amateur playing the rach 3 and prok 3. i've heard a couple and they're all over the place. take the third movement, people slowing down like crazy at EVERY 'piu vivo' section, no intepretation, trying to pull off the longer cadenza while snailing through the hard parts, it's hilarious. sorry, i don't believe you. not a word. maybe you've done like a couple of chopin etudes... perhaps even the two concerti, prolly at half tempo and completely out of synch with the orchestra... (ahem.... second piano).</p>

<p>oh i forgot to add i can play the godowsky transcritions of the chopin etudes backwards with my feet and the liszt sonata in 13 minutes. played the brahms concerti at age 2 1/2, at carnegie hall. i doubt they'll listen to all of it though</p>

<p>ROTFLMAO</p>

<p>Evgeny Kissin learned the rach 3 when he was 17, and he as professional as can be. I really doubt most ppl who can play the rach 3 so early on can play it as well as him, who was a virtuoso indeed.</p>

<p>Does anyone have online recordings of the rach 3, which I can hear and take a look at?</p>

<p>Wow, Kebree! After looking at your artwork, I really wish I hadn't sent in my portfolio! It's nothing in comparison...</p>

<p>no offense scherzo, but there are indeed a number of prodigies who can play those pieces at young ages. li yundi (that guy on the nike commercials with lance armstrong) won the international chopin competition at age 18. and you forget that a lot of these composers actually wrote these pieces in the early parts of their life. if there are 18-25 yr-olds who write the pieces, why can't there be some in our generation who can play them at that age.</p>