I don't know it to play, and I don't think I have the music. I have one book of Bolcom rags that I found somewhere. Maybe I could play some of them now -- I couldn't last time I tried.
Now, there was one time when I turned the radio on and they were playing a rag, and I listened and said "Bolcom" and then theorized that it might be the graceful ghost. It turned out I was right, though whether I was right from vaguely recollecting or just right out of my usual general ineffable superiority, I couldn't say.
What do I play now that you'd like? (Apart from Solace.) I've been working on Nola (by Arndt) forever. It sounds like a regular syncopated novelty, but I keep finding swell things in it, and I have sanded down many of the bumps, making a fairly decent job of it most times. Or maybe the Andante from Beethoven's "Pastoral" sonata, which was also a big favorite of the composer, who is said to have improvised on it by the hour. I don't improvise on it, so the world is safe for now.
Note to self: must put more people's names in the postings. It finally got me a comment.
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Date: 2004-10-29 07:39 pm (UTC)Now, there was one time when I turned the radio on and they were playing a rag, and I listened and said "Bolcom" and then theorized that it might be the graceful ghost. It turned out I was right, though whether I was right from vaguely recollecting or just right out of my usual general ineffable superiority, I couldn't say.
What do I play now that you'd like? (Apart from Solace.) I've been working on Nola (by Arndt) forever. It sounds like a regular syncopated novelty, but I keep finding swell things in it, and I have sanded down many of the bumps, making a fairly decent job of it most times. Or maybe the Andante from Beethoven's "Pastoral" sonata, which was also a big favorite of the composer, who is said to have improvised on it by the hour. I don't improvise on it, so the world is safe for now.
Note to self: must put more people's names in the postings. It finally got me a comment.