Pianophilia

Cziffra Society all transcription concert tommorow at the Yamaha concert hall in Manhattan. Here's the info:

NOTE--concert now is starting at 7, instead of 7:30 due to the length of the program--

Yashar Yaslowitz
Bach-Yaslowitz- Passacaglia in C Minor BWV 582

Mykola Suk
Thalberg-Fantasy on “Moses” by Rossini Op 33

Koji Attwood
Wolf-Attwood: "Die Bekehrte", "Verschwiegene Liebe" (World premiere)
Schumann-Attwood: "Berg und Burgen" (World premiere)
Tárrega-Attwood: "Recuerdos de la Alhambra"
Tchaikovsky-Attwood: Symphony No. 4, Op. 36, 1st movement, Andante
sostenuto-Moderato con anima (World premiere)

Gyorgy Cziffra
StraussII-Cziffra-Tritch-Tratsch Polka

INTERMISSION

Alexander Moutouzkine
Bellini-Liszt-Reminiscenses of "Norma"

Claire HuangCi
Schubert-Liszt-Gretchen am Spinnrade
Tchaikovsky-Pletnev- Concert Suite from “The Nutcracker”
March - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy – Tarantella - Intermezzo - Trepak - Chinese Danse - Andante Maestoso

Kimball Gallagher
Dvořák-Gallagher- "Songs of the Moon" from "Rusalka"(World premiere)
Saint-Saens-Liszt-Horowitz-"Danse Macabre"

Mei-Ting Sun
Stravinsky-Sun-Suite from "The Firebird" (1919) (World premiere)
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That sounds like Husum Rarities - wonderful! Koji Attwood had his nice debut recital there on 18th August 2008.

Will this event - even partially - be available as a recording (CD / DVD / .mp3 / YouTube)?

Posting some hours before the concert starts, I knock on wood in favour of the brave artists. In Germany we say "toi-toi-toi" (spoken "toy-toy-toy"). How is it in English? Chinese? French? Chinese? Japanese? Korean? Portuguese? Russian? Spanish? Any other language?

kh0815 wrote: Posting some hours before the concert starts, I knock on wood in favour of the brave artists. In Germany we say "toi-toi-toi" (spoken "toy-toy-toy"). How is it in English? Chinese? French? Chinese? Japanese? Korean? Portuguese? Russian? Spanish? Any other language?

I've discovered this expression many years ago in English, in New York, among the opera singers. I thought it was some kind of Yiddish.
Apparently, it is purely German:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toi,_toi,_toi
but Yiddish has a similar expression:
http://www.forward.com/articles/15158/

For other expressions in similar circumstances ("break a leg" in English or "merde" in French):
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bre1.htm

Jean-Séb

Ni pukha ni pera in Russian. Neither dust nor feathers.

Since Koji did not post this url I think I will. Here is the Recuerdos video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MajxyjWrlPM

WCosand wrote:Since Koji did not post this url I think I will. Here is the Recuerdos video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MajxyjWrlPM

Thank you Mr. Cosand! Here are the rest of the performances:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ZiwFhd2w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDsUPkq6d6s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR5hURk9HK8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT07EFcCfok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ETdhrDv-ew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAxZ8RPufEQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLX0esKCrsI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wnLoQKbWPQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN_Pq6vLdxg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYsUgkXmyGg