Dear Milo,
The worse is over, and it feels like the holidays have come already! A long weekend lies ahead though, and I decide that I should take a short break today.
This day, I have fallen in love with Brahms 16 Waltzes. They are unbelievably short, but unbelievably nice. One song that struck me was Brahms 15 in A flat, a short 1 min plus song that is often played solo though it is a duet. Need to find some time learn such songs.
Of course, I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong with my Sonatas. It never sounds right. I wonder about many things: whether my touch is too heavy, whether my touch is unequal, etc. until it gets all so exasperating that I just end up playing Chopin, Rach and Liszt again.
I must really take my hats off to all those Sonata experts. I used to look down on Mozart Sonatas for their simplicity, seeing them as inferior to much harder songs like the Transcendental etudes, Hungarian Rhapsodies, or Chopin's etudes. But I was terribly terribly wrong. The sheer accuracy and sheer simplicity of the piece make it all too difficult to play. Darn...maybe I should have taken a Beethoven Sonata...that way I might still be able to get away with my errors...
Wow, it's already 10:17. I don't really feel like studying today so I had better go to sleep. Till the next time we meet!
Cheers.
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