Hello Everyone

Hi Michele, what you have written is beautiful and moving, you are an example to follow!

You are proof of what music can do, and I appreciate a term you used: "qualunquismo" [indifferentism]. Only a blind person cannot see what music can do, and only a deaf person cannot hear its power. It is the fault of all the deaf and blind people who exist (99% of the inhabitants of this planet) if music, viewed as art, is meeting this fate. It is the fault of politicians promoting football matches and burying culture. I would have liked to be born in Chopin's era; I would certainly have known immediately which path to take. Today, all young people find themselves having to take more paths just to "guarantee" themselves a future. People who belong to that indifferentism, stuffed into discotheques that peddle deafening little tunes, the same people who make fun of classical music by mocking those who cultivate true art! It is a shame! It is shameful to see crowds of people at modified car rallies and empty theaters. This is unfortunately today's society, and those like us who are attached to and enchanted by true music always remain in the timid hope that one day things might change and that people will take the blindfolds off their eyes to make room for what constitutes culture. Music brings us closer to God and differentiates the human being capable of appreciating it from the animal.

I am therefore very happy to welcome you to our forum. I hope that in this free space (one of the few free and democratic spaces left) you can find the welcome and the topics you are looking for. You will be able to launch topics yourself, invite people, and review your digital piano; in short, you can do and say everything you want, obviously always respecting the sensitivity of others (here I have to play the administrator 😕 ).

Greetings from the entire staff.

Welcome!

How wonderful to hear young people speak like this! Congratulations, you are worth as much as TWO pianists and I am sure you will reach great goals. Spirit is stronger than any skill and it allows us to sink perfectly and grandly into Music. Your Spirit is stronger than ours and also your "pianistic energy" and we are very happy, honored that people like you are part of the great family of www.pianoconcerto.it.

Ad Majora

A hug

Paolo

Thanks for the warm welcome 😉

What can I say!? Well, being born in Chopin's era wouldn't have been bad... if we had been wealthy, geniuses, or lovers of a rich woman! 😛 Otherwise... perhaps it is better as we are today, that we don't die prematurely (of course, if we don't go looking for it!!! 😕) and that we can afford a musical instrument at home even if we do the humblest work! 😉

It is true that we live in a "distracted" era, but I believe it is the classic example of "the noise of a falling tree compared to the silence of the growing forest". I think there are many (perhaps very many) people who, instead, cultivate certain passions and love art... and who are waiting for an opportunity to meet. Like this forum 😉

The awareness of meaning so much to these people should make you proud (I am talking about you who manage the forum) and charge you with responsibility.

You asked for the bicycle... now pedal. I am sure, however, that you will be very happy to pedal 😉

I say this because I am also a forum administrator, and I know what it means to take such a commitment.

My forum has nothing to do with music... and it is a sign of my eclecticism, perhaps excessive! In fact, I love music as much as literature, painting, fishing, and sports! And it is hard to divide oneself among so many passions!

Thanks again for the welcome. Thanks to Mo. Ferrarelli (from now on Paolo 😉) for calling me young 😛 and... see you soon 😉

Regards.

Michele

Welcome Michele!

Thank you for sharing your truly touching experience, it is an honor! 😕

Regarding the bicycle... I too have sat on the rear seat along with extraordinary drivers and I can't get enough of it!

P.S. My grandfather was from Lecce, Sogliano Cavour, Salento is wonderful!

Have a good day!

Dear Michele,

your many interests mean wealth!!!!! I also love painting, I did a lot of Theater, and I love literature. I believe that overall culture matters a lot for those seeking to express themselves artistically.

Best regards

Paolo

Dear Michele,

welcome among us, and I tell you this with all the enthusiasm that a (hopefully likable) old man—well, let's say an elderly gentleman like myself, who has never in his life given up on striving to improve himself and those he loves—can have.

I am so very sorry for your terrible recent experience, and I find your behavior, your passion, and your optimism absolutely exceptional.

Rightly so, the wise Paolo says that You are worth TWO PIANISTS, because for us, a person's value is measured by the effort they pour into the things they do, regardless of excellence, innate or otherwise, which is an unnecessary extra.

Here, as you will have seen, one breathes, I hope, an atmosphere slightly different from stadiums, and we try to grow and help everyone grow together.

Here, aside from the very serious fact that everyone else is a piano enthusiast and I and only I am interested in women, we are truly in the forest that grows in silence, leaving out the noise of the falling tree.

If you search the site, you will find many ideas for your passion. If you allow me, since research is a passion of mine, I will go hunting for something specifically for You.

Bye and see you soon.

Hi Michele, welcome!!!

It is an honor to you that, despite the accident, you are trying to "recover" your piano skills ... Ravel comes to mind, who wrote a sonata for solo piano for the left hand, dedicated to a friend of his who had lost his right hand in battle... 😆 (if I am wrong, Simone will not hesitate to correct me 😆 )

Anyway, I am sure that you will become better than before in a short time!! 🙂

I also wish you a good stay ... and good interaction with the others (which is something you can truly do on this site... Thanks to Simone and Paolo !!! 🙂🙂 )

That's all for now ... Bye!! Francesco 1797

@Francesco1797

Good heavens, no one will correct you, Francesco.

Joseph-Maurice Ravel composed the "Concerto pour la main gauche" in D Major for piano and orchestra, at the request of the pianist Paul Wittgenstein (brother of the great philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein ) who was maimed in the war.

Ravel himself produced a reduction for two pianos. The Concerto echoes Jazz, music that Ravel had fallen in love with during a trip to the United States.

There are also other concertos for the left hand, for example the "Piano Concerto No. 4" in B-flat, Op. 53 by Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev, also written for Wittgenstein and of which a version for two pianos also exists.

Ciao

Thanks again "guys" 🙂

Well, fortunately, in my case it will still be possible to play pieces with two hands! 🙂

Of course, there will be work to do, but a friend of mine who is a physiotherapist assured me that the results (with time and dedication) will be excellent 😆

If every pianist's dream is to have two right hands... mine is more realistic: to go back to having a right and a left one! 😆

Gennarino wrote:

@Francesco1797

Goodness, no one will correct you, Francesco.

Joseph-Maurice Ravel composed the "Concerto pour la main gauche" in D Major for piano and orchestra, at the request of the pianist Paul Wittgenstein (brother of the great philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein ) who was maimed in the war.

Ravel also produced a reduction for two pianos of the same work. The Concerto echoes Jazz, music that Ravel had fallen in love with during a trip to the United States.

There are also other concertos for the left hand, for example the "Piano Concerto No. 4" in B-flat, Op. 53 by Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev, also written for Wittgenstein and of which a version for two pianos also exists.

Hi

michele75 wrote:

Thanks again "guys" 🙂

Well, fortunately, in my case it will still be possible to play pieces for two hands! 🙂

Of course, there will be work to do, but a friend of mine who is a physiotherapist has assured me that the results (with time and dedication) will be excellent 🙂

If every pianist's dream is to have two right hands... mine is more realistic: to have a right and a left one again! 😆

Ah, then I am not mistaken... Thanks Gennarino... 🙂! I didn't know that Prokofiev had also written a Piano concerto for a single hand... compliments, you are a mine of knowledge 😃!

Oh come on Michele, you'll have two right hands, one left and maybe... even a four-hands concerto!!!! 😆 Bye!!! Francesco 1797