musical diaries: how I choose what music to perform in concerts

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Sorry this took me a whole month to edit and post... See you this Saturday!! I hear a bunch of you are traveling from far away 🥰🙏 monheimer-kulturwerke.reservix.de/p/reservix/event/1941597 If you wanna see the cut-down version I made for this concert presenter's KZbin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2bKmq2wo7KXn6c

[@homafan3128]

There're a few tickets left! Please hurry up & fill up the hall tomorrow! FYI: Monheim is between Duesseldorf and Cologne.

[@DennisDJSaklak]

We enjoyed your concert Tiffany! Thanks for the little meet afterwards also by the way. Greetins from Belgium :)

[@4scheveningen]

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[@alanphil]

The timing of the squirrel commentary is excellent.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Haha thanks! Honestly, those parts made me keep editing this originally 2 hour long video... 😅🐿️

[@FelixWilbrink]

We were at this concert. It was unbelievable beautiful. Breathtaking. The young Beethoven, turned into Mozart! You brought so much light into it. So nice. And than Schumann. Mesmerising! Your love for Robert Schumann shone like the sun! Thank you so much!!!

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Awww that's so nice. Thank you for such kind words and for being part of the live musical experience with me ❤️🙏

[@AiChipo]

You know it’s a good day when Tiffany uploads :)

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Awww 🥰

[@louiejames1624]

I cannot tell you how much I respect and admire you. Thank you so much for keeping it so real and honest, putting yourself out there so that we can see the actual effort and hesitancy and self-doubt and perseverance it takes to be virtuoso. You are an inspiration.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Ohhh thank you. I'm always unsure whether to keep making these videos... Reading your comment was very soothing :)

[@ottochan7000]

@@TiffanyPoonpianist Your videos are educational, inspiring and always a joy to watch! Understand that it isn't easy to always stay motivated (must be tedious with all the editing/administrative work etc), but just wanted to put it out there that you are blessing many others including myself with your effort and hard-work! Really hope that you are able to strive on, but only at a pace which is comfortable for yourself. Also, wish you good luck & enjoy your performance today! 🙏

[@Musicforever60]

this is high-quality rambling. 10/10 rambling. would recommend to a friend

[@masadiceronio4577]

I love to choose pieces around a theme! Makes it so interesting to see how somewhat opposing pieces fit together. Thanks for sharing your musical life

[@Ygenie]

Brava! What a concert. Every note a breath. Every piece a story. Thank you for your performance. And please keep posting your own little stories.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Thank you so much for coming! 🥹❤️

[@rosecarlido1683]

nahre sol and you have deep love for classical music so we hope some day in future we can see you two in ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@twinblades-thewilltokeeplo6084]

That'll be the dream collaboration!!!

[@schildjean3795]

Great pleasure to see your enthusiastic preparation for this concert in germany. I love your approch of making this videos and of corse y love your piano playing.

[@LAR_NCM]

Awwwwwwwww. You are so adorable Tiffany. Also super talented.🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@GarryGomersall]

Another great video. Such a delight, what a talent and a supreme intellect. She has it all.

[@rosieonivory]

i can't tell you how relatable the procrasti-cleaning is, and it's oddly a relief to see someone living my dream life doing it too! thanks for showing the realities of being a musician tiffany, it makes it feel so much more achievable and less mysterious for people like me

[@warlock7760]

A new Tiffany video always get a like from me! Good luck with your concert tonight! Be kind and keep striving :)

[@matthodek]

This one made me smile and laugh so many times. Thank you. I wish you luck for your concert, and safe travels home again.

[@thecentenarians]

This video was refreshingly elaborative.

[@r.i.p.volodya]

Very interesting, thank you.

[@danielmasonmusic2353]

Your videos are a wonderful escape Tiffany, thank you for sharing your musical journey, Dan from England ❤

[@agustandany5652]

Productive Procastination ❤❤❤❤ Love it, now I have an excellent terminology for my habit 🎉🎉🎉

[@agustandany5652]

Oh ta one more thing, as soon as I hear the Scarlatti I remember Tiffany Poon

[@peterparca36]

Thank you for the video 😊 I will be there on Saturday in Monheim and it will be my first piano concert ever. So if you hear someone clapping at the wrong times it is probably going to be me 😅 You inspired me to start playing the piano a few years ago and I'm full of joy and excitement for tomorrow. Keep up the good work ❤

[@xhivo97]

This is pretty raw man

[@Ch29]

Indeed you are one of the famous pianists that embrace Schumanns. To be honest I didn't admire Schumann until I started to watch your videos

[@topturretgunner]

PS. Favorite composer(s) for me…… hmm 🤔. Wow 😮 JS Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Gershwin, Liszt, Wagner, oh and yes Mussorgsky and Schumann. Yep! Long list but each has compositions that I am very fond of. I like John Williams and Leonard Bernstein in the genre of movie score writers as well. Williams in particular. I truly hope that I have the extreme pleasure of seeing you perform one day. Oh please, PLEASE come to Central Florida. With my best wishes for you success, peace, joy and, contentment. God bless and watch over you. 🤗☺️✝️🙏🏻

[@I.amthatrealJuan]

Constraints drive creativity indeed. It makes sense when endless freedom on making a program will put you in a "writer's block". Your analogies on switching are actually nice. I hope your jet lag doesn't constrain your performance. Best of luck!

[@conniejacks7485]

I am also partial to Schuman. 😊😊Have you ever performed in the southeastern United States? I live in northwest Alabama and I have to travel 2-3 hours in any direction to hear good piano music live.😊😊😊

[@tombufford136]

Thank you for not ostrasizing us from your very fine world of music. It would be wonderful to jump on a plane to Zagreb and attend your Concert their. I visited the city and an evening Cello recital was advertised close to where I parked. Art, Music and Fashion appeared much in favour in the City.

[@Br8kz]

i was audibly excited when I saw a new video was up lol

[@written12]

Great video as usual. Please, Tiffany, keep us informed about your NYC recitals. And for us New York area people, let us know what you’ll be doing in the NYC area in the spring or summer.

[@neovxr]

Sehr schön spricht brave Tiffany !! 😊Thanks for taking your time for German music and culture!

[@neovxr]

Jokes aside BTW you look really fresh, healthy and powerful right now, and the playing sounds totally brilliant to me. I wish I could attend the concert.

[@stdio44.32]

The squirrels perfectly complement the paper rice in the kopfmotif 😆👏

[@topturretgunner]

Ahh. Tiffany. Productive procrastination. That’s how I convince those close to me that I’m a busy fellow. 👍☺️

[@1RiderPale]

Adorable squirrel screaming. ❤ 😊

[@AndyJanssenMusic]

I really want to come to Monheim tomorrow, but I have a gig in the afternoon and it takes around 2,5h to get there from where I live, so it will likely not happen 😢 Still hoping for a miracle...or maybe I can still make it to the second half... 🤔

[@Grim701]

I am very fond of the squirrel shriek to express bits of frustration. 😊

[@lifein240p8]

The analogies for switching out stuff reminded me of that scene in an Indiana Jones movie where he swaps a golden statue with a bag of sand and the whole temple starts falling apart.

[@kauru3844]

Try using a mechanical keyboard; they are very satifsying to type with! (I use a Razer )

[@tombufford136]

Tiffany showing her intellect in Concert program design. I do recall being commented after playing 'May your sheep gently graze' on the Organ at the end of a funeral that this piece would not be appropriate for the funeral of a Butcher.

[@johnmarkbrailsford24]

Suggest that you investigate the piano music of Carl Nielsen, especially his 'Chaconne' & 'Theme and Variations' - intense but beautiful compositions.

[@topturretgunner]

My dear Tiffany. At 71 years of age. I can share some great tips on productive procrastination. I do very much enjoy your Vlogs and hope to see some new ones. God bless and watch over you. ✝️🙏🏻🤗☺️

[@jamesryder9158]

Your german sounds amazing Tiffany

[@pianista-mediocre]

Hello. Where are you from? I always listen to your presentations on KZbin, but this is one of the first diaries I see

[@eronalmeida2904]

Gosto de ouvi-la!

[@lucindayu2541]

What kind of squirrel is like that? I used to see quite a lot of squirrels but in different color and a little bit smaller

[@glennnanod3160]

Loved this exposition of how you choose you musical presentations. Very interesting to watch the process you as you decide. Thanks for the journey. 🎵🎶🎼🎻😍💖

[@thegreatnovel322]

How about k 87 or 99 from Scarlatti these are beautiful

[@pippikrumeluss5167]

Wouldn’t it be an option, to decide on a Programm and travel the world with it? So you could play much more concerts (for all locations at which option 1 works) and have a Programm that works for you in which you feel comfortable and also you might be able to play a lot of chamber music with friends and other musicians on your way around the world. That would be so much fun and also very rewarding. Your German is very good btw. I am living not far away from Monheim. I will try to come! 💕

[@Magnet12]

You’re doing something great, just trust yourself

[@derekhayes8209]

Thank you Tiffany. Superb video. All the best for your concert!

[@AnnaKhomichkoPianist]

Your German pronunciation is actually really good 💪👏

[@finished4011]

have you always wanted to play piano when you were younger?

[@thetuncaydeniz]

''Talent works, genius creates.'' -Robert Schumann

[@JM-ig4ed]

Yay - Tiffinay uploads :) :) Hey, I have a question - what is the difference for you and musically between whether you are doing a recital vs a concert? What are the different expectations of each? Also... when I attend concerts, it is always awkward about the encores. Sometimes the performers stay off stage too long before coming back - and what if they don't clap long enough - have you ever just not done an encore?

[@sharky_spike]

why not the third piano sonata in F minor...great piece that requires a very WET acoustic venue

[@kenjikodai]

nice

[@wyattli9112]

Hello from Hong Kong

[@123456789tube100]

Have you ever made your own tracks, would be interested to hear it?

[@danielngui3941]

I tend to get finger tense on fast note. How do u make like gravity feels like not too tense?

[@aBachwardsfellow]

-- no wonder you took a philosphy major ! I love productive procrastination -- I'm am an expert! If you were to venture into a repertoire that you haven't played much (or at all) previously, what would some likely pieces be?

[@ojeojeojeohe]

i don't understand why someone would think about hiring you without Schumann

[@AlexMFF]

Do you have days when you feel mentally tired from playing the piano every day? If yes, how do you get rid of this crisis?

[@ministryofdressing]

I mean how do you ask Tiffany to take off Schumann from her program 😅 that means you don’t know the artist you ask to concert with😅😅 but Honestly you are the best interpreter of Schumann I know yet ….😊

[@vipassana72]

I didn’t realize she edited these too. Good humor always helps atone to the reality of absorbed info. “If you’re going to tell people the truth you’d better make them laugh else they will want to kill you” I think a playwright once said this. He may have been referencing his time in jail. The squeak of the squirrel at her not getting to the end of her sentence sums it up. Thank you. 😊

[@ojeojeojeohe]

my advice: learn 2 other scarlatti totally unknown from the 555 not from the first 32

[@normalizedaudio2481]

You do your own hair?

[@wbiro]

You posted 6 minutes ago... and you got a commercial for Guardians of the Galaxy! Wooooo! Then for Viking Cruises (big time!)... so... you decide which scores to perform by tearing them up and deciding which ones made the best rice grains? How to make videos: stick to your original recipe: the life of a concert pianist (in its many details, and all the she appreciates etc. etc.) (and don't forget your video artistic urges)...

[@dummag4126]

For me you are the best pianist I know, i explain...i prefer sweet light precise and many other qualities you have instead a fast and hipervirtuosist pianist like many others chinese and not...Piano music is not a F1 race.

[@sorrowking6097]

It will be a dream if Tiffany replies You will literally make my birthday even better💙

[@pjimenez08]

Happy birthday! Let's see if Tiff can reply and make your day

[@normalizedaudio2481]

You guys see her hair?

[@normalizedaudio2481]

She went to Professional hair person?

[@robertmicelli2946]

Tiffany, how do i love thee? let me count the ways: 88 piano keys and many other things besides deez ( i'm in a silly mood this morning) plus that face that can launch a thousand ships (or maybe fighter jets). ok i'm leaving, bye

[@yopiano1071]

Can you speak dutch

[@TsukkiSenpai727]

she's so cute

[@tombufford136]

My Niece and Goddaughter, I have learnt have returned from Croatia, although your concert was over a year ago. Your next concert is in Germany, although this video was 5 months ago and possibly this has already happened. Of course I am of the UK and I am willing to apologise in advance if unfair, the 'C' word you use seems rather 'strong' language from such a sensitive pianist. Visually provacative language, personally I try to avoid the temptation from the danger of 'seeing' in the mind what you 'hear'. Down to earth talking certainly has it's place, though I could be wrong though in 5 or 6 years of Engineering Education after leaving school I only recall one 'S' word during a day release workshop first day verbal safety 'brief' from a lecturer for high impact description of the dangers of bad operating of machinery.

[@jannis11]

Noice

[@merakrut]

I was excited about your Sony CD recording. But I'm so sad to say, it was, I think, the worst recording I have ever heard. You deserve MUCH better.

[@paulix9960]

First

[@0Marl1]

Great video, do you have a boyfriend?

[@islemdoudou372]

Why would you... ask something like that?

[@yangwenli668]

Broo....

[@n0rg]

I haven't watched a video of yours in quite a while. Refreshing. How about Liszt?

[@n0rg]

what opera did you see and hear? Been to the Met many times in my youth

[@n0rg]

High-level

[@n0rg]

Love the squirrel moments

[@n0rg]

Who's working your camera?

[@n0rg]

That Op2 No2 is tough to play well.

[@hiichian9830]

Can Tiffany philosophize Brahms piano concerto one and two Steinway and Sons... Brahms and German Requeim ..May Tiffany philosophically analyze German Protestant Reformation historical religious background since Martin Luther... Please integrate with the keyboard systematic philosophy of St John Johann Sebastian Bach on say St Matthew St John Passions... Brahms and German Romantic Orthodox Christian philosopher...Why is Brahms a musical messiah after the Ode to joy by German saint Beethoven...How is the emperor concerto related to the Roman empire historical background or Judeo Christian moorings cultural integration Wesleyan university in theological and philosophical orientation..