Jeremy Stone

Moszkowski: Etincelles ("Sparks"), Opus 36, No. 6.
Chopin: Polonaise in A Flat ("Heroic"), Opus 53.

Recorded April 26-28, 2008 for submission to the Cliburn/YouTube Contest for Amateur Pianists.

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• sparks
• Chopin
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• heroic
• Cliburn
• amateur
• competition
• classical

[HagenSara10]

Mr. Stone:

Thank you for a delightful performance.

You have technique and pianism, two different things that belong together for one to call himself/herself a PIANIST.

You are an excellent PIANIST!

Thank you much,

HagenSara10

[jes9015]

@HagenSara10 Many thanks for your kind and enthusiastic comment! I am enjoying watching/hearing videos you have favorited or commented upon. Thanks for listening... Jeremy Stone

[callenishss]

i am impressed by your technique. Did you learn it by doing drills (and also by dropping entire hand and twisting wrist accordingly)?

[jes9015]

Tough to give a good answer in a "comment" space. Long story short, I studied the Taubman method under Edna Golandsky, who teaches wrist rotation but NOT keeping the wrist low. I've been experimenting (lately) with some use of low wrist thanks to Van Cliburn, who heard me play at age 12 (!) and spoke to me about this, nearly 50 years ago!

Thanks for the comment--Jeremy Stone

[callenishss]

Taubman method is exactly what i am pursuing, and your video was the one i watched in which the principles of taubman came back to memory

do u think that all great pianists use some variation of taubman? i.e. optimal efficiency to move in certain trajectories have only one unique solution for the force application. argerich drops her arm pretty hard and keeps fingers rigid, which concurs with taubman in sense that fingers never individually move

[jes9015]

I wouldn't say all great pianists use "some variation of Taubman." For example, Horowitz's approach broke all the rules, yet he played as no other. And I've heard exquisite pianists who used a lot more finger-generated movement than Taubman recommends. What I WILL say is that I gained a lot from this approach. (Also, I studied years earlier with Jacob N. Helmann, my old Russian teacher who'd also taught Taubman. She said that his ideas about technique got her started on her own. Small world!)

[rpohl111]

Enjoyed your classical piano. It is wonderful, as usual. Are you the same Jeremy Stone of Denver, CO and Schwayder Camp fame?

Yourd, Raymond Pohl

[stephenTGV]

Bravo. Excellent playing. You should try the Sorbonne Competition in Paris for gifted amateurs also, but make sure when you play there, the piano is tuned, because they are negligent in that respect. They only tune the piano once before the competition. A rug under your piano when you record may help reduce some reverb. Congratulations.

[leymaren]

I am impressed.

[PsychotikPandora]

sometimes i speak and i would telle you something : Nice to meet you

[callenishss]

thanks for the reply. what i had always thought was that horowitz "dropped" whole arm to play things but did not really twist wrist a lot. its still within taubman guidelines as long as fingers dont use their own strength; (ie you can play CDEFG by dropping your hand really hard and consistent and having each finger collapse in strength right after it depresses its note. btw horowitz had a special piano that had lighter keys

[criseluka]

Great job!5*