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EXPLAINING WHY I HAVE A GERSHWIN STYLE ENDING FOR PRELUDE NO. 4 IN E MINOR -- Jack Hutton
I am hoping that the many followers of Chopin's music will forgive me for slightly amending one of Chopin's most-loved preludes in a videotaping that I am just now uploading to my Youtube site. I am referring to Prelude No. 4 in E minor.
I spent literally months listening to every version I could find through the Web, including Jimmy Page's performance of the prelude in the 1970's. Jimmy Page bypassed the ending which a contemporary of Chopin's (von Bulow) called "Suffocation" and I decided to do the same at a time when our world is looking for messages of hope.
That explains why I chose to highlight the "blue note" (C7) that occurs in the fifth last bar. In that one bar Chopin was a century ahead of "Rhapsody in Blue" and that is the direction that I went for the remainder of the prelude. My version ends with the E minor chord but the chords leading up to it come from George Gershwin's world.
The modest few who listen to my version will hear a message of hope that hints at better times to come. I think that is what we need to hear at this time and I apologize to Chopin purists for amending the final bars.
I just went through roughly three weeks of self-isolation in my cottage cabin at Bala, Muskoka, (18 days and 17 nights), alone with my Bible and laptop, and have some idea of what it is like to look for hope in our current situation. It was during that time that I conceived the idea of the videotaping and to make it a message of hope.
I am probably best known as a ragtime performer in both Canada and at least two American ragtime festivals, but I have also recorded two gospel CD's.
EXPLAINING WHY I HAVE A GERSHWIN STYLE ENDING FOR PRELUDE NO. 4 IN E MINOR -- Jack Hutton
I am hoping that the many followers of Chopin's music will forgive me for slightly amending one of Chopin's most-loved preludes in a videotaping that I am just now uploading to my Youtube site. I am referring to Prelude No. 4 in E minor.
I spent literally months listening to every version I could find through the Web, including Jimmy Page's performance of the prelude in the 1970's. Jimmy Page bypassed the ending which a contemporary of Chopin's (von Bulow) called "Suffocation" and I decided to do the same at a time when our world is looking for messages of hope.
That explains why I chose to highlight the "blue note" (C7) that occurs in the fifth last bar. In that one bar Chopin was a century ahead of "Rhapsody in Blue" and that is the direction that I went for the remainder of the prelude. My version ends with the E minor chord but the chords leading up to it come from George Gershwin's world.
The modest few who listen to my version will hear a message of hope that hints at better times to come. I think that is what we need to hear at this time and I apologize to Chopin purists for amending the final bars.
I just went through roughly three weeks of self-isolation in my cottage cabin at Bala, Muskoka, (18 days and 17 nights), alone with my Bible and laptop, and have some idea of what it is like to look for hope in our current situation. It was during that time that I conceived the idea of the videotaping and to make it a message of hope.
I am probably best known as a ragtime performer in both Canada and at least two American ragtime festivals, but I have also recorded two gospel CD's.
