Performer: Sgisela. I took lessons through high school, then re-started in 2020.
Piece: Joropo by Moisés Moleiro
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Source of music: Sheet music. The publisher from whom I bought it seems no longer to be in business (unfortunately), but it seems like it’s available here.
Instrument: Estonia L210
Recording method: iPhone
Additional info: This is an old recording, as you will be able to tell when you see the video. But I submitted it for the ABF fast pieces recital and got a lot of positive comments. My submission for the upcoming ABF recital will be a work in progress piece (if I can manage to record a reasonable chunk of it), so I thought I would submit this older recording for the the inaugural PT recital.
This is a Venezuelan joropo, which is a style of music/dance from the plains of Venezuela and Colombia. Traditionally, the instruments are a harp, a cuatro (which is a member of the guitar family), and maracas.
This recording was actually meant to be a practice recording. I played it a little quicker than was fully comfortable for me, and there were definitely some issues with hands togetherness and some areas where I rushed. I was committed to playing this for a virtual holiday party, but when I tried to make a performance recording a few weeks later, I got recordings where I had fixed the togetherness/rushing issues, but I didn’t like the recordings as much. They lacked an energy that this one had. So I went with this earlier practice recording and edited in the holiday things.