Monday, January 19, 2015

Vote for Mary Ann in CBC's piano competition!

Long-time Ottawa Piano Group member Mary Ann has entered CBC's amateur pianist competition. You can read all about the contest and view her entry here http://piano.strutta.com/entry/8301092.

To show your support, you can vote for her each day until January 22.

Good luck, Mary Ann!

Music played at the January 18, 2015 session

Host: Mary Ann

Round 1:

- Greg Z: “The girl with the flaxen hair” by C. Debussy
- Karin T: “Beauty in the Rose-Garden” by E. MacDowell (Op. 4#3)
- Christopher C: “Petite Suite #6-Serenade” by A. Borodin
- Irina B: “Waltz in A Minor” by F. Chopin (Op. Post.)
- Winnie C: “Sonata in D Major” by J. Haydn (Hob. XVI:51)
- John W: Russian and Polish national anthems
- Mary Ann: “Song without words (Duetto)” by F. Mendelssohn (Op. 38#6). Note that Mary Ann entered her performance of this work in this year’s CBC amateur pianists contest “Piano Hero”.

Round 2:

- Greg Z: “I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair” by S. Foster
- Irina B: “Waltz in A flat” by F. Chopin
- Karin T: “Prelude” by F. Chopin (op. 28 #6). Note that Chopin requested that this piece be played at his own funeral.
- John W: Two Russian folk songs, Serenada (Serenade) and Serdtsa (Heart)
- Christopher C: “Petite Suite #7-Nocturne” by A. Borodin
- Winnie C: “Meditation from Thais” by J. Massenet