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Expert: Pat G - 12/22/2010


Question
I LOVE this piano piece played on this video and would like help identifying it.

Here's the link to the video:
http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2010/12/07/n_philadelphia_hunger.cnnmoney/

Here's another link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO4C-zwfQU

Thanks!

Answer
Hi, Caroline,

I was able to get the video to work. I know the piece, but I can't tell you the name of it. It is most likely by Chopin, but other possibilities are Brahms or Schumann. I thought it might be a Chopin Nocturne, but the samples I was able to access didn't include that piece. You might also go to Amazon and try listening to Chopin Waltzes.

Good luck!

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I am no longer answering questions asking me to identify music. Most music is either on YouTube, which crashes my browser, or on another site that crashes my browser. I am available for other questions.

Experience

I have been playing piano since I was 3, and I am now 66 years old. I took formal lessons for about 11 years, and took some piano and organ performance courses in college. I also sang in the Masterworks Chorale for a number of years, and can sing anything from baritone to first soprano. We performed twice a year, usually a major choral work, ranging from requiem masses to Carmina Burana. I also attended recorder society meetings once a month. We would read compositions and perform them together. I took several children to their music lessons and rehearsals and usually stayed and watched intensely. Our children studied violin, viola, flute, guitar, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, and trombone.

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I studied piano and organ in college, and took courses in music theory. I have also taken seminars in pre-Columbian folk music with Xochimoki, as well as played a short while in a gamelan, and a balalaika orchestra, where I played autoharp.

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