A Glance at Evening - Piano Improvisation (Sosnowski)

[etLux]

Whoa this is a great improvisation. There are some really great ideas in here...Wow! I REALLY liked the ending. Really great, wow!

Chris

Many thanks for the enthusiastic and kind reception, my friend!

All the best,




David
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David Sosnowski
www.DavidSosnowski.com

[pianodoc]

David:

Please forgive me for taking such a long time to listen and then comment. Some personal things in my life slowed me up somewhat.

Thank you so much for sharing these extemporaneous pieces with us. They are quite enjoyable and very musical indeed. Much of my musical life has been taken up with attempting to decide which I prefer, improvisational or through compsed music. Just when I decide on one path the other grabs me and I change course.

Recently I have been most concerned with trying to develop my composition and orchestration skills.

Listening to these pieces of yours I am struck by the way you manage to bring the sound and scope of the orchestra into your piano improvisations. I constantly hear this in your playing and find myself thinking of how the music might be orchestrated.

You sense of form and development certainly comes through as I listen to these. One of the dangers of improvising is the tendency to wander without any descernable pathway and this certainly is a danger that you have avoided in these brief musical thoughts.

As always, the time I spend listening to your music moves my spirit and prods me along my own musical journey wherever that leads.

Thanks for the listen.

David Mauney

[etLux]

Hello David!

Thank you for coming by to listen to these small efforts, my
friend...

David:

Please forgive me for taking such a long time to listen and then comment. Some personal things in my life slowed me up somewhat.

Thank you so much for sharing these extemporaneous pieces with us. They are quite enjoyable and very musical indeed. Much of my musical life has been taken up with attempting to decide which I prefer, improvisational or through compsed music. Just when I decide on one path the other grabs me and I change course.

By all means -- take both paths! They enrich each other.

Recently I have been most concerned with trying to develop my composition and orchestration skills.

There are many roads to learning; but I've always felt that the
piano is one of the best places to learn some of the most
fundamental elements of orchestration: voicing and harmonic
color. These two areas generally fall outside of the typical
methodologies of teaching orchestration; yet, too, they are not
usually well attended in other subdisciplines (theory, harmony),
either. But working with these on a piano, they're exposed,
naked -- you can't hide behind the characteristics of individual
instruments.

Listening to these pieces of yours I am struck by the way you manage to bring the sound and scope of the orchestra into your piano improvisations. I constantly hear this in your playing and find myself thinking of how the music might be orchestrated.

You can approach piano writing dozens of different ways,
surely. But I usually think of it more in orchestral terms...
color, texture, contrast -- in good hands, the instrument is
endowed with enormous scope in these areas.

You sense of form and development certainly comes through as I listen to these. One of the dangers of improvising is the tendency to wander without any descernable pathway and this certainly is a danger that you have avoided in these brief musical thoughts.

Though I try to "loosen up" in improvisation, I'm afraid the years
have hopelessly encumbered me with form, structure, development...
I doubt I could avoid them were a gun to my head.

As always, the time I spend listening to your music moves my spirit and prods me along my own musical journey wherever that leads.

Few things could please me more, David, than to inspire others
to the pen.

Thanks for the listen.

David Mauney

As always, David, thank you so much for your generous
comments!

All my best,



David
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David Sosnowski
www.DavidSosnowski.com

[DPDAN]

just listening again to "A Glance at Evening" David,,,


such a talent you have!

Thanks again,
Dan

[etLux]

just listening again to "A Glance at Evening" David,,,


such a talent you have!

Thanks again,
Dan

Many thanks for your kindness, my friend...
and for coming back for more. I'd added
a few little pieces to this, I think, since
you listened, first.

All my best,



David
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David Sosnowski
www.DavidSosnowski.com

[englishgent]

Maybe you listen to these fine works and hear many shortcomings. However, I think this is an example of a principal I've had to apply to learning a new language - "use what you have!". Thanks for sharing with us what you do have - believe me, it's still substantial. I know it can be frustrating when you feel limited, but only you know what you "could have done". For the rest of us, it's pure listening pleasure.

I particularly enjoy your use of cross rhythms. They seem to flow from you with ease.

Regards
Owen

[etLux]

Hello, Owen!

Thank you for listening, my friend.

Maybe you listen to these fine works and hear many shortcomings. However, I think this is an example of a principal I've had to apply to learning a new language - "use what you have!".

Absolutely! That's a life style... rofl! You can sit
there and fret over what you can't do, and get
nowhere -- or you can take what ya got and get
in there and build something with it.

Thanks for sharing with us what you do have - believe me, it's still substantial. I know it can be frustrating when you feel limited, but only you know what you "could have done". For the rest of us, it's pure listening pleasure.

Many thanks for the kindness, Owen. I'm pleased
to say that with daily work, my technique is
shining up nicely, again. And I'm more surprised
than you could imagine by that. Who'd have thought?

I particularly enjoy your use of cross rhythms. They seem to flow from you with ease.

Thank heaven, Owen, one thing I can still do well
is -- count!

Regards
Owen

All my best,



David
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David Sosnowski
www.DavidSosnowski.com

[Andrea Maria Ottavin]

These piano improvisations are superb. So different from your other piano works. There's a lot of poetic moments in there and the Steinway really shines in your hands. "Perseids" is still my favourite. Hope you'll do an official relase of these piano works like you're doing with "Beyond the event horizon" and the "Symphony n.4". Congratulations!

Best regards,

Andrea

[etLux]

Hello Andrea,

These piano improvisations are superb. So different from your other piano works. There's a lot of poetic moments in there and the Steinway really shines in your hands. "Perseids" is still my favourite. Hope you'll do an official relase of these piano works like you're doing with "Beyond the event horizon" and the "Symphony n.4". Congratulations!

Best regards,

Andrea

Many thanks, my friend, for you truly kind comments.
And yes, the improvisations are markedly different from
my more formal writing. I've wondered over that across
the years -- perhaps it's my deeply latent Romanticism,
yearning to be free... rofl!

All the best,



David
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David Sosnowski
www.DavidSosnowski.com