el concerto mas corto.

Time Art: Performance Art
Kim Liu
Professor Hraba
November 15th, 2008

 When I began to take piano lessons, I was the laziest child. I didn’t want to work hard, but I wanted to play well. In the end, that tactic didn’t really work which only makes sense that it took me a long time just to learn how to play. If it was possible, I would had gone back to put more thought into what I was doing. It wasn’t until summers ago that I have the essence of a melodic song. I have gone through songs, learned each by note, measure, and phrase. Years ago, my teacher introduced piano concertos, which are pieces comprised of a solo and accompaniment. Normally, concertos are extremely long. They may have 3 movements, and some many more. Each movement is also lengthy as well. In this performance, I played with the idea of a short concerto, which is an oxymoron in itself. Concertos are not short. Having picked out a few chords, I hoped to establish a song with a beginning, build up, climax, and end. This performance shows mental preparation and the execution of the ‘piece’ which is Concerto in A, opus 16 by Edvard Grieg. The long preparation is superfluous for the little amount of play, which is also a twist on performance as well. Generally, performers take more time performing than they do in preparation for it. Since this piece is highly recognizable, I hope that many will understand the joke that I am playing, especially in the title, ‘the Shortest Concerto’.