Since there are several haters out there who doubt that I can play piano, here, finally, is video evidence from a recent recital. In case you're confused, I'm the tall guy at the keyboard wearing all black.
Any mistakes, ensemble slipups, or counting errors are solely my fault, and in no way reflect on Sonja. (I said I could play; I didn't say anything about playing well.) Make sure to buy a bunch of hand lotion and Kleenex before listening to these masterpieces.
Showing posts with label cello. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cello. Show all posts
Friday, November 29, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Tonight's Entertainment
For those of you in the Bloomington area, I'll be accompanying for a senior cello recital at the Jacobs School of Music Recital Hall. The program includes, among other pieces, the Strauss Cello Sonata. This piece is rarely recorded or performed, due to some tricky passagework for both instruments and a notoriously difficult piano part (see, for example, the stormy middle section in the following video starting at about 3:10). But, I also happen to be kind of stupid, so I play stuff like this regardless. No fear, baby!
Where: Recital Hall, Jacobs School of Music
When: Saturday, March 23rd, 10:00pm
J. S. Bach: Suite No. 5 for Unaccompanied Cello in C Minor, BMV 1101
Gaspar Cassado: Suite for Solo Cello
Richard Strauss: Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 6
I. Allegro con brio
II. Andante ma non troppo
III. Allegro vivo
Where: Recital Hall, Jacobs School of Music
When: Saturday, March 23rd, 10:00pm
==============Program==============
J. S. Bach: Suite No. 5 for Unaccompanied Cello in C Minor, BMV 1101
Gaspar Cassado: Suite for Solo Cello
Richard Strauss: Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 6
I. Allegro con brio
II. Andante ma non troppo
III. Allegro vivo
Friday, March 1, 2013
Recital Pics
Here are a few pictures that were taken from the recital on Monday:
Taking a bow. We spent a few weeks choreographing this.
Starting things off; Mendelssohn, I think.
The rest of these are from the Grieg. Note that there is no page turner, even though my score runs for forty-five pages; by the end of the night my page-turning muscles would be bathed in lactic acid.
I know what you're thinking: What was the greater risk in your life; Playing without a page-turner, or taking a leak in the locker room shower your senior year? Difficult to say, my friends. Difficult to say.
Taking a bow. We spent a few weeks choreographing this.
Starting things off; Mendelssohn, I think.
The rest of these are from the Grieg. Note that there is no page turner, even though my score runs for forty-five pages; by the end of the night my page-turning muscles would be bathed in lactic acid.
I know what you're thinking: What was the greater risk in your life; Playing without a page-turner, or taking a leak in the locker room shower your senior year? Difficult to say, my friends. Difficult to say.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Livestream Link
Just a quick update on the cello recital post yesterday: We have a livestream link for the show which will begin streaming at 5pm EST. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ryanfitzpatrick
It begins with a solo Bach suite, then the Debussy cello sonata (which Wendelin will accompany), and then a couple of pieces by Respighi and Schumann (which I'll be accompanying for). Click on the link at 5pm, and you should be able to see everything that's going on!
Friday, November 30, 2012
Senior Cello Recital
What: Senior Cello Recital, featuring the music of Bach, Debussy, Respighi, and Schumann
Where: Recital Hall, Jacobs School of Music (1201 E. 3rd Street)
Who: Ryan Fitzpatrick (cello), Andrew Jahn & Wendelen Kwek (piano)
Link to the Facebook invite can be found here; we're working on getting up a livestream, which will be posted as soon as it's available.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Cello Unchained: Public Recital
Tomorrow at Boxcar Books in Bloomington, there will be a public studio recital featuring cellists from the Jacobs School of Music. The pieces range from virtuosic showpieces (such as the Popper etudes) to lyrical songs without words, and I will be accompanying several of them. So if you're in the area, feel free to stop by!
When: Monday, November 26th, at 7:00pm
Where: Boxcar Books, 408 E 6th St (right next to Runcible Spoon)
Who: The entire cello studio of Emilio Colón
Link to Facebook invite
Monday, September 24, 2012
Resphigi: Andante con Variazioni
The following is an excerpt from my journal written during the glowing aftermath of a chamber music rehearsal. It is brief and incoherent, as though written in a daze, but that is what music does to you; it beclouds the mind, stirs the soul, and radiates joy and longing through every fiber of your being. I felt it worth sharing - one of my more sentimental moments:
Nothing more to be said of this; I invite you to listen.Today we played through the Resphigi Andante con Variazioni; I was the orchestral reduction, Ryan played the solo cello part. Unfair that I have never heard this piece before now, as I believe it to be one of the most sublime orchestrations alongside Mendelssohn’s violin concerto and Mozart’s piano concerto in D minor. Those cascading arpeggios of the harp – simulated crudely by the piano in my score – are as the sounds of angels; those double, triple, quadruple stops make one’s pulse quiver with anticipation; those long, broad notes held in delicate balance as the orchestra swells underneath in all its glory and all its grandeur. It is no affectation, no mannerism that my companion began to sing out during one of my interludes; the music is irresistible.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Unix for Neuroimagers: Shells and Variables
First, a few updates:
1) We just finished our first week of the semester here, and although things haven't been too busy, it may be a couple of weeks before I get back on a steady updating schedule. I'll do what I can to keep dropping that fatty knowledge on the regular, and educating your pale, soy-latte-white, Famous Dave's BBQ-stained faces on how to stay trill on that data and stack that cheddah to the ceiling like it's your job. And if you got one of those blogs dedicated to how you and your virgin-ass Rockband-playing frat brothers with names like Brady and Troy and Jason eating those cucumber salad sandwiches or whatever and you drop a link to this site, I'll know it. You show me that love, and I show it right the hell back.
2) While you're here, how about you donate a piece of that stack to the American Cancer Society. I mean, damn; I'm out there seven days a week on those roads, sweating and suffering, but you - you're at work procrastinating again, wringing your snow-bunny white hands over whether you should drop out of graduate school or just toughen it out and graduate in eight years, and while you're at it possibly take a swipe at that new Italian breezey who just entered the neuroscience program. Donate first, worry about those problems later.
3) We got another performance for you all this November, including Schumann's Adagio and Allegro for cello and piano, Resphigi's Adagio con Variazioni, and the Debussy cello sonata. Time and location TBA. Also, more music videos will be uploaded soon, but while you're waiting, you can listen to the latest Mozart Fantasie in D Minor, which has proved one of my most popular videos to date; last I checked, it had 57 views, which I think qualifies for viral status. We goin' worldwide, baby! World-WIDE!!
4) AFNI tutorials are next on the docket, after wrapping up the intro Unix tutorials for neuroimagers, and possibly doing a couple more FSL tutorials on featquery, FSL's ROI analysis tool. Beyond that, there isn't much else I have to say about it; now that you've mastered the basics, you should be able to get the program to jump through whatever hoops you set up for it and to do whatever else you need. There are more complex and sophisticated tools in FSL, to be sure, but that isn't my focus; I will, on the other hand, be going into quite a lot of details with AFNI, including how to run functional connectivity and MVPA analyses. It will take time, but we will get there; as with the FSL tutorials, I'll start from the bottom up.
Anyway, the latest Unix tutorial covers the basics on shells and variables. Shells are just ways of interfacing with the Unix OS; different shells, such as the t-shell (tcsh) and bash shell, do the same thing, but have different syntax and different nomenclature for how they execute commands. So, for example, an if/else statement in the t-shell looks different from a similar statement in the bash shell.
Overall, there's no need to worry too much about which shell you use, although AFNI's default is tcsh, so you may want to get yourself used to that before doing too much with AFNI. I myself use tcsh virtually all of the time, except for a few instances where bash is the only tool that works for the job (running processes on IU's supercomputer, Quarry, comes to mind). There are lots of tcsh haters out there for reasons that are beyond me, but for everything that I do, it works just fine.
As for variables, this is one of the first things you get taught in any intro computer science class, and those of you who have used other software packages, such as R or Matlab, already know what a variable is. In a nutshell, a variable is a thing that has a value. The value can be a string, or a letter, or a number, or pretty much anything. So, for example, when I type in the command
From there, you can build up more complicated scripts and, by having the variable as a placeholder in various locations in your script, only have to change the value assigned to it in order to change the value in each of those locations. It makes your programming more flexible and easier to read and understand, and is critical to know if you wish to make sense of the example scripts generated by AFNI's "uber" scripts.
With all of the tutorials so far, you have essentially all of the fundamentals you need to operate FSL. Really, you only need to understand how to open up a terminal and make sure your path is pointing to the FSL binaries, but after that, all you need to do is understand the interface, and you can get by with pointing and clicking. However, a more sophisticated understanding is needed for AFNI, which will be covered soon. Very soon. Patience, my pretties.
1) We just finished our first week of the semester here, and although things haven't been too busy, it may be a couple of weeks before I get back on a steady updating schedule. I'll do what I can to keep dropping that fatty knowledge on the regular, and educating your pale, soy-latte-white, Famous Dave's BBQ-stained faces on how to stay trill on that data and stack that cheddah to the ceiling like it's your job. And if you got one of those blogs dedicated to how you and your virgin-ass Rockband-playing frat brothers with names like Brady and Troy and Jason eating those cucumber salad sandwiches or whatever and you drop a link to this site, I'll know it. You show me that love, and I show it right the hell back.
2) While you're here, how about you donate a piece of that stack to the American Cancer Society. I mean, damn; I'm out there seven days a week on those roads, sweating and suffering, but you - you're at work procrastinating again, wringing your snow-bunny white hands over whether you should drop out of graduate school or just toughen it out and graduate in eight years, and while you're at it possibly take a swipe at that new Italian breezey who just entered the neuroscience program. Donate first, worry about those problems later.
3) We got another performance for you all this November, including Schumann's Adagio and Allegro for cello and piano, Resphigi's Adagio con Variazioni, and the Debussy cello sonata. Time and location TBA. Also, more music videos will be uploaded soon, but while you're waiting, you can listen to the latest Mozart Fantasie in D Minor, which has proved one of my most popular videos to date; last I checked, it had 57 views, which I think qualifies for viral status. We goin' worldwide, baby! World-WIDE!!
4) AFNI tutorials are next on the docket, after wrapping up the intro Unix tutorials for neuroimagers, and possibly doing a couple more FSL tutorials on featquery, FSL's ROI analysis tool. Beyond that, there isn't much else I have to say about it; now that you've mastered the basics, you should be able to get the program to jump through whatever hoops you set up for it and to do whatever else you need. There are more complex and sophisticated tools in FSL, to be sure, but that isn't my focus; I will, on the other hand, be going into quite a lot of details with AFNI, including how to run functional connectivity and MVPA analyses. It will take time, but we will get there; as with the FSL tutorials, I'll start from the bottom up.
Anyway, the latest Unix tutorial covers the basics on shells and variables. Shells are just ways of interfacing with the Unix OS; different shells, such as the t-shell (tcsh) and bash shell, do the same thing, but have different syntax and different nomenclature for how they execute commands. So, for example, an if/else statement in the t-shell looks different from a similar statement in the bash shell.
Overall, there's no need to worry too much about which shell you use, although AFNI's default is tcsh, so you may want to get yourself used to that before doing too much with AFNI. I myself use tcsh virtually all of the time, except for a few instances where bash is the only tool that works for the job (running processes on IU's supercomputer, Quarry, comes to mind). There are lots of tcsh haters out there for reasons that are beyond me, but for everything that I do, it works just fine.
As for variables, this is one of the first things you get taught in any intro computer science class, and those of you who have used other software packages, such as R or Matlab, already know what a variable is. In a nutshell, a variable is a thing that has a value. The value can be a string, or a letter, or a number, or pretty much anything. So, for example, when I type in the command
set x=10in the t-shell, the variable is x, and the value is now 10. If I wish to extract the value from x at any time, I prepend a dollar sign ('$') to it, in order to tell Unix that what follows is a variable. You can also use the 'echo' command to dump the value of the variable to the standard output (i.e., your terminal). So, typing
echo $xreturns the following:
10which is the value that I assigned to x.
From there, you can build up more complicated scripts and, by having the variable as a placeholder in various locations in your script, only have to change the value assigned to it in order to change the value in each of those locations. It makes your programming more flexible and easier to read and understand, and is critical to know if you wish to make sense of the example scripts generated by AFNI's "uber" scripts.
With all of the tutorials so far, you have essentially all of the fundamentals you need to operate FSL. Really, you only need to understand how to open up a terminal and make sure your path is pointing to the FSL binaries, but after that, all you need to do is understand the interface, and you can get by with pointing and clicking. However, a more sophisticated understanding is needed for AFNI, which will be covered soon. Very soon. Patience, my pretties.
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