*rC3 Wikipaka Music*
Hello! I am Lucas and I will be playing a Piano concert for you, today, tonight,
this morning – I don't know when this is going to be scheduled – about an hour long
I've picked up some things here, planned, if that takes less than an hour then I'll
just improvise and play something else as well, but I thought I could start with the
Gladiolus Rag by Scott Joplin, so let's start with that, and I hope you'll enjoy.
*Music: Gladiolus Rag by Scott Joplin*
Alright, that was, more or less, the Gladiolus Rag by Scott Joplin. And up next
I wanted to play this one: By Franz Liszt, Polonaise in g minor. I think there's more
than one of those, but I'll look up the ID later on and probably put it in a
description or something for a full tracklist, in case someone wants that.
*Music: Polonaise in g minor by Frédéric Chopin*
I'm not quite sure if the finish was where I put it, or it should've been one earlier
and I should have just repeated this part *plays chord* but not *plays chord* this
part, I'm not sure. I don't have the sheet music here with me, so too bad. What's
next? Aha, yes! Next I wanted to play a Song by Tom Lehrer. Let me say that again
without facing away from the microphone: a song by Tom Lehrer, who has very recently
done a wonderful thing and put all of his songs into the Public Domain, which is
great, because otherwise I would not be able to play them here for at least another
seventy years, because the man's still alive – ninety-something, I think – but
since he has done that I am now able to praise this wonderful song and play it
again for you. "The Elements," you've probably heard it, I think, maybe not.
We'll see.
*Music*
No, wait. I forgot I do not know the words to The Elements by heart. I used to at some
point, but then I forgot. So I need my phone here with me to show me the lyrics.
There we go!
*Music: The Elements by Tom Lehrer*
Tada! Well, kind of. "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer. And next someone requested that I
play – my phone decided to reload the page for some reason – but requested that I
play "Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja" from Mozart's "The Magic Flute." So I can do
that next. Or some version of it, I guess. I'm not going to sing this one, so let's
turn off the microphone.
*Music: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja by Wolfang Amadeus Mozart*
Okay. What was I going to play next? Okay, some Jazz Improvisation, sure.
So the way I can do that is I have this loop pedal down here, the red thing,
which I can use to record myself playing some background chords and rhythm, maybe
something like this: *plays music* You know what, no, I messed that one up,
but let's just demo the thing, quickly, so I could turn up or down the volume.
*Music reduces in volume*
And now it's just going to loop forever, and I think I messed up the break, let's
listen. Yeah, no, let's try again. So I tap it twice to erase the recording, and
let's try that again: *plays music*
Okay, that sounds better. And now I can just play along whatever I want: *plays*
*Music: Jazz Improvisation by Lucas Werkmeister*
Kind of like that. The ending is always tricky, because I have to suddenly stop
the loop and then it should still sound kind of decent. Well. So far I'm starting
to realise that I arranged this pretty poorly, because I put a lot of short
things at the front. But, well, let's do some longer things then, now, and see if
that still fills an hour. So the next thing I thought I wanted to play or I could play
was this Fantasy in c minor by Mozart, and I think there's only one of those, so that
is unambiguous – I might be wrong – I can put this K number somewhere later.
I don't know why I did this, because I do not have sheet music for this one either.
so let's put that right away again. "Fantasy in c minor," by Mozart.
*Music: Fantasia in c minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart*
Well, mostly, that was there. Made a few mistakes, sorry. What do I want to play
next? Some more Scott Joplin was what I wanted to play next. No, actually,
nevermind. It'll just turn itself around on the page anyways and I think I can play
this one by heart as well, so let's just do that. I should say what I'm going to
play. I'm going to play "Cleopha" by Scott Joplin, which goes like this: *plays*
Let's just try that again.
*Music: Cleopha by Scott Joplin*
Alright, that worked much better, I think, yay. Next: next I was going to play
something from this, which is the Years of Pilgrimage from Liszt – and I'm not going
to try and pronounce the french, I think – but basically it's a collection from, I
think, three years which he spent in – the first year is Switzerland, the second one
is Italy, and then the third one is – actually I don't know, this one just has
one piece in it – the first and second year are in Switzerland and Italy, at
least, and I'm going to play the first one from the second year, page 66, which is
called the "Sposalizio," which is the engagement of Mary and Joseph, I believe,
or rather, this is actually named after a painting of that occasion, by Raphael, I
think – I'm not sure – so that is "Sposalizio" by Liszt.
*Music: Sposalizio by Franz Liszt*
Alright. After that, what did I have planned next? Oh, okay. So I have two more
things here, which is not quite enough to fill an hour, but let's first do this one,
sure. So what I had planned for now is another song by Tom Lehrer and this one is –
he introduces it as a "rousing and uplifting tune that is guaranteed to cheer you up."
*Music: We Will All Go Together When We Go by Tom Lehrer*
Yeah, about like that. Let me drink something. So that song is called "We Will
All Go Together When We Go," I've updated the lyrics slightly, because when he wrote
it, it was "three billion hunks of steak," and within his lifetime – which is kind of
blowing my mind – it went to nearly eight billion hunks of well-done steak, so yeah,
the population has grown a lot. And then I have one piece in mind with which I want
to close the concert, but I think I need a few more minutes for something else first
so let's just – yes! I have an idea. Why not play this one, which is a lot of fun,
if I can find it, yes! The Prelude by Sergei Rachmaninoff, I'm not sure if that
has an Opus number on there or anything – no it doesn't. So maybe you recognise it,
maybe you don't, I'll try to play it as well as I can. Prelude in – what is this? –
c# minor, I believe.
*Music: Prelude in c♯ minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff*
Well, maybe I could have practised this one once before, but I hope it was still
nice enough. What else could I play, either from here or from something else.
This one is nice – bit long, I don't think we need that much for – the problem is I
didn't exactly look at my watch when I started this recording, but I think there
is about fifteen to twenty minutes left, and the thing I want to finish with is
fifteen minutes, so maybe a short piece – let's just do another Scott Joplin. Let's
play the Maple Leaf Rag, let's do that one: "Maple Leaf Rag," Scott Joplin.
*Music: Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin*
Tada! Alright, and now, for the grand finale, let's play the Rhapsody in Blue by
George Gershwin – I almost said Scott Gershwin there, that's not his name. I
don't know if that's anybody's name, but it's certainly not his. So let's – with
or without? – No, without. I made this mistake once, where, after an hour-long
concert, I did this at the end, and then, right at the end of the piece, the stand
just fell down and it was probably funny in retrospect but not very pleasing at the
time, so that's just leave it out, because I can play this. Anyways: George Gershwin,
I think, Gershwin but George – George Gershwin, "Rhapsody in Blue."
*plays* Again.
*Music: Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin*
Alright. So that was the Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin and I hope you enjoyed
it, and I think I'm going to call it here. I hope you enjoyed this concert, I hope it
all worked out technically ­– I'll see about that, and, yeah, enjoy the rest of
the remote Congress Experience. Bye!
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