![]() Now on top of that, my good friend Craig Knutson who is the tech guru for The Piano Guys, had another interesting idea. There’s a total of 15 parts that I’ve arranged out of that piece. And I thought we would break this out into multiple parts. It is basically a postcard, musical picture of Japanese pagodas. And of course, with the sound of the Gamelan inspiring Debussy, that led to this conclusion: we’re going to do an arrangement of Claude Debussy’s, “Pagodes,” from his, “Estampes,” collection. This is an ensemble of percussive metal instruments that actually inspired Claude Debussy when he first heard them. The idea I had in my mind was the sound of a Gamelan orchestra. What kind of a piece could we come up with that could accommodate everybody’s differing ability levels, but not only that, also due to the fact that acoustic pianos go out of tune, what kind of a piece could we put together that could take that into account in and still sound okay?Īs I was giving this some thought, I think I came up with the perfect piece. ![]() But I wanted to try to do what we did with our online chorus and orchestra project about a month ago, mainly having a piece where everybody could participate, people of all different levels from absolute beginners too advanced. The only other exceptions would be when we play with other instrumentalists, when we play with string players, orchestra players, choirs and the like. Beyond that, it’s pretty rare to have more than two, three, four people playing at the same time. We can have two people playing on piano or two people playing on two pianos. When we do collaborate, it’s usually with one other person to play duets. We have no end of things that we can play by ourselves. Pianists, of course, have the world’s greatest solo literature. This is an idea we’ve been thinking about for quite some time. Welcome to the Cunningham Piano Online Piano Orchestra Project. ![]()
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