{"id":199,"date":"2012-03-08T22:22:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2024-06-06T23:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T03:25:57","slug":"the-last-5-years-earlier-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/the-last-5-years-earlier-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last 5 Years & Earlier Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is something special about Jason Robert Brown<\/a>‘s musical, The Last 5 Years<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We performed this at Dartmouth in 2004, and 8 years later, it’s still one of my go-to scores if I want to relax at the piano. In fact, I still hear new things in the music. And the music is quite difficult: some jazz riffs are written verbatim, there are unintuitive and fast runs, and time signatures bounce back and forth.  I am a really good sight-reader, and generally not such a good practicer; much of this music was hard to sight-read, and required significant amounts of practicing to learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Dartmouth 2004 production stars Ivan Grant and Anna (Moschet) Rathbun, and was directed by Victoria Saxton.\u00a0 Danielle Strollo on the violin, Meg Boyar and Myra Choo on cello, Dan Kozikowski on the guitar, and of course me on the piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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