Music played at the December 15, 2014 session

Thanks to Sachie for hosting our Sunday afternoon session and for sharing her Yamaha grand piano.
In addition to the usual diversity, there were some delightful arrangements of Christmas favourites.

Here's what was played:

Liz -- Enrique Granados, Vals Poético No. 6
Lynda -- Pietro Alessandro, Gesù Bambino, arrangement by Tom Roed from Christmas Encyclopedia
Vanessa -- traditional, What Child is This, arrangement by Charlie Bisharat
Christopher/David  -- Johannes Brahms, Intermezzo O. 117 No. 1, transcription for clarinet and piano by Eric Simon
Winnie -- Adolphe Adam, O Holy Night, arrangement by John Sullivan Dwight
Julie -- Dimitri Kabalevsky, Prelude Op. 38, No. 9
Sachie -- Alexander Scriabin, Sonata No. 4, 1st Movement, Op. 30
John -- own arrangement, Jingle Bells, variations in the style of 10 classical composers

2nd round:

Christopher -- traditional, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, In the Bleak Midwinter, arrangements by Christopher Norton
David -- Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto in G Major, first section of 2nd Movement Adagio Assai, SoundCloud recording of David playing this piece is here
Vanessa -- Irving Berlin, White Christmas
Lynda -- Lee Mendelson & Vince Guaraldi, Christmas Time is Here from a Charlie Brown Christmas, arrangement by Tom Roed
John -- own arrangements, O Holy Night, Huron Carol
Winnie -- Don Besig, Sleep, Little Baby, Sleep
Sachie -- traditional, O Tannenbaum, arrangement by Vince Guaraldi
Julie -- Sergei Rachmaninoff, Études Tableaux, Op. 33 No. 8 in G Minor

Are you Canada's best amateur pianist?

The CBC is running a contest for amateur classical pianists. Does anyone dare to enter?

http://music.cbc.ca/#!/Piano-Hero

Wine expert Natalie MacLean donates Yamaha baby grand to city

And you can play on it!

http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/city-of-ottawa-gets-gift-of-music-1.2140036
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/video-donated-piano-brings-music-to-the-lobby-at-ottawa-city-hall

Should all piano keyboards be the same size?

The loosely-organized group PASK (Pianists for Alternate Size Keyboards) doesn't think so: http://www.paskpiano.org/

They also have a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pask.piano

Demise of a Karn pump organ

This article in the Ottawa Citizen shows the sorry end of an antique pump organ, dumped beside a city road:

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/abandoned-organ-strikes-sour-note-with-park-piano-project