rC3 Wikipaka Music Hello! I am Lucas and I will be playing a Piano concert for you, today, tonight, this morning – I don't know when this is going to be scheduled – about an hour long I've picked up some things here, planned, if that takes less than an hour then I'll just improvise and play something else as well, but I thought I could start with the Gladiolus Rag by Scott Joplin, so let's start with that, and I hope you'll enjoy. Music: Gladiolus Rag by Scott Joplin Alright, that was, more or less, the Gladiolus Rag by Scott Joplin. And up next I wanted to play this one: By Franz Liszt, Polonaise in g minor. I think there's more than one of those, but I'll look up the ID later on and probably put it in a description or something for a full tracklist, in case someone wants that. Music: Polonaise in g minor by Frédéric Chopin I'm not quite sure if the finish was where I put it, or it should've been one earlier and I should have just repeated this part plays chord but not plays chord this part, I'm not sure. I don't have the sheet music here with me, so too bad. What's next? Aha, yes! Next I wanted to play a Song by Tom Lehrer. Let me say that again without facing away from the microphone: a song by Tom Lehrer, who has very recently done a wonderful thing and put all of his songs into the Public Domain, which is great, because otherwise I would not be able to play them here for at least another seventy years, because the man's still alive – ninety-something, I think – but since he has done that I am now able to praise this wonderful song and play it again for you. "The Elements," you've probably heard it, I think, maybe not. We'll see. Music No, wait. I forgot I do not know the words to The Elements by heart. I used to at some point, but then I forgot. So I need my phone here with me to show me the lyrics. There we go! Music: The Elements by Tom Lehrer Tada! Well, kind of. "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer. And next someone requested that I play – my phone decided to reload the page for some reason – but requested that I play "Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja" from Mozart's "The Magic Flute." So I can do that next. Or some version of it, I guess. I'm not going to sing this one, so let's turn off the microphone. Music: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja by Wolfang Amadeus Mozart Okay. What was I going to play next? Okay, some Jazz Improvisation, sure. So the way I can do that is I have this loop pedal down here, the red thing, which I can use to record myself playing some background chords and rhythm, maybe something like this: plays music You know what, no, I messed that one up, but let's just demo the thing, quickly, so I could turn up or down the volume. Music reduces in volume And now it's just going to loop forever, and I think I messed up the break, let's listen. Yeah, no, let's try again. So I tap it twice to erase the recording, and let's try that again: plays music Okay, that sounds better. And now I can just play along whatever I want: plays Music: Jazz Improvisation by Lucas Werkmeister Kind of like that. The ending is always tricky, because I have to suddenly stop the loop and then it should still sound kind of decent. Well. So far I'm starting to realise that I arranged this pretty poorly, because I put a lot of short things at the front. But, well, let's do some longer things then, now, and see if that still fills an hour. So the next thing I thought I wanted to play or I could play was this Fantasy in c minor by Mozart, and I think there's only one of those, so that is unambiguous – I might be wrong – I can put this K number somewhere later. I don't know why I did this, because I do not have sheet music for this one either. so let's put that right away again. "Fantasy in c minor," by Mozart. Music: Fantasia in c minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Well, mostly, that was there. Made a few mistakes, sorry. What do I want to play next? Some more Scott Joplin was what I wanted to play next. No, actually, nevermind. It'll just turn itself around on the page anyways and I think I can play this one by heart as well, so let's just do that. I should say what I'm going to play. I'm going to play "Cleopha" by Scott Joplin, which goes like this: plays Let's just try that again. Music: Cleopha by Scott Joplin Alright, that worked much better, I think, yay. Next: next I was going to play something from this, which is the Years of Pilgrimage from Liszt – and I'm not going to try and pronounce the french, I think – but basically it's a collection from, I think, three years which he spent in – the first year is Switzerland, the second one is Italy, and then the third one is – actually I don't know, this one just has one piece in it – the first and second year are in Switzerland and Italy, at least, and I'm going to play the first one from the second year, page 66, which is called the "Sposalizio," which is the engagement of Mary and Joseph, I believe, or rather, this is actually named after a painting of that occasion, by Raphael, I think – I'm not sure – so that is "Sposalizio" by Liszt. Music: Sposalizio by Franz Liszt Alright. After that, what did I have planned next? Oh, okay. So I have two more things here, which is not quite enough to fill an hour, but let's first do this one, sure. So what I had planned for now is another song by Tom Lehrer and this one is – he introduces it as a "rousing and uplifting tune that is guaranteed to cheer you up." Music: We Will All Go Together When We Go by Tom Lehrer Yeah, about like that. Let me drink something. So that song is called "We Will All Go Together When We Go," I've updated the lyrics slightly, because when he wrote it, it was "three billion hunks of steak," and within his lifetime – which is kind of blowing my mind – it went to nearly eight billion hunks of well-done steak, so yeah, the population has grown a lot. And then I have one piece in mind with which I want to close the concert, but I think I need a few more minutes for something else first so let's just – yes! I have an idea. Why not play this one, which is a lot of fun, if I can find it, yes! The Prelude by Sergei Rachmaninoff, I'm not sure if that has an Opus number on there or anything – no it doesn't. So maybe you recognise it, maybe you don't, I'll try to play it as well as I can. Prelude in – what is this? – c# minor, I believe. Music: Prelude in c♯ minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff Well, maybe I could have practised this one once before, but I hope it was still nice enough. What else could I play, either from here or from something else. This one is nice – bit long, I don't think we need that much for – the problem is I didn't exactly look at my watch when I started this recording, but I think there is about fifteen to twenty minutes left, and the thing I want to finish with is fifteen minutes, so maybe a short piece – let's just do another Scott Joplin. Let's play the Maple Leaf Rag, let's do that one: "Maple Leaf Rag," Scott Joplin. Music: Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin Tada! Alright, and now, for the grand finale, let's play the Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin – I almost said Scott Gershwin there, that's not his name. I don't know if that's anybody's name, but it's certainly not his. So let's – with or without? – No, without. I made this mistake once, where, after an hour-long concert, I did this at the end, and then, right at the end of the piece, the stand just fell down and it was probably funny in retrospect but not very pleasing at the time, so that's just leave it out, because I can play this. Anyways: George Gershwin, I think, Gershwin but George – George Gershwin, "Rhapsody in Blue." plays Again. Music: Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin Alright. So that was the Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin and I hope you enjoyed it, and I think I'm going to call it here. I hope you enjoyed this concert, I hope it all worked out technically ­– I'll see about that, and, yeah, enjoy the rest of the remote Congress Experience. Bye! rc3 Wikipaka outro music Subtitles created by c3subtitles.de in the year 2021. Join, and help us!