Tiffany my love, you don't need to be so self conscious all the time, I understand you're quite young in your 20s, so take it from an almost 40 years old broad, you're loved and appreciated. Not many people have your determination and unrelenting self-discipline to pursue your dreams, a listener at a time. Though I love your cute shyness, you're letting social anxiety get in the way of a great time. Remember this: You've worked really hard to get where you are, remember the countless hours of studying and practicing the piano, doors that were closed so new ones could open. I wish you the best of luck and success in your pianistic career. Not solely because you "deserve" it (which you do!), but mostly because you've earned it! Keep on keeping on gal 👧🏻 ✨️ You've got this and so much more to come. Best wishes, happiness & heath, from Rhode Island, USA. ❤️
Tiffany. Thank you for bringing us along and sharing the experience. Like you I am a confirmed coffee ‘holic’ . Oh how I depend on that bean for energy.
I think I’ve watched every single vlog/diary series. Very enjoyable 🎹 Pretty clear that the talent for story-telling comes through in the playing AND the film-making.
I think it is a rare thing to have such a degree of self awareness being so young. I agree with your observation about your own performance at times, I could feel how sometimes you put more strength on keys than you wanted.
Tiffany keep connecting and just being yourself. You are so endearing. Don't be anything or anyone more or less. You are exactly what we love and need. God Bless You.
What an enjoyable Vlog! That segment about your first pop-up was quite relevant. (I enjoyed your rehearsal video on Patreon too 😉) - Fun fact: The same key incident happened to me and my coworker on one of our pipe organ service trips. Proves that nothing is perfect, LOL. So glad that you enjoy your stay and consider the city of my ancestors as your second home city, although there's a huge difference between NYC and "New Old" Historical Dresden Downtown. Wishing you the best as always!
classical music is one of the very best instruments at providing empathy and potentially reducing sadness and depression. It is very much a gift to have people like Tiffany providing such content. I know I am sure thankful for being able to hear and try to play some classical music. She definitely has put in a tremendous amount of work. You are such a gift Tiffany!
You were not wrong about the chaos, but it seems to have worked out well. This was a very enjoyable entry in the diary. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Watching these diary chapters is quite an emotional experience. Mainly oscillating around joy, with a hint of sadness. Beautiful music, water-colour impressions, great editing, but how fond I/we have become of Miss Poon over the years is primarily based on her sparkling personality, kindness. 23:10 --- As regards toy instruments, wonder if there are fans of Pascal Comelade in these parts.
I love these vlogs. The pop-up is a great idea! Gives people a chance to find motivation and inspiration with people who share the same passion. Also, with these pop-up events, these bound to be "awkward" moments, it'd be unusually if there wasn't any, to be honest 😄
Haha thank you! 😅 Yes, exactly. I wanted these pop ups to be about having fun with classical music together, less about being perfect. Glad you understood 😃
Really love this video Tiffany. It is really fascinating that you're able to do a pop-up, which I can't tell just for your perspective it was not easy. Congrats to you for trying & it turned out well, even though the group was small, it look like it was a very intimate & sincere
Love your outfit Tiffany , your taste is perfect . Timeless style is so important to enhance the shortcomings of the architecture around , which even the greatest of places will be exposed bye . Many musicians get this but many also just don’t , even though they may perform well . Perhaps it’s the hole RU-vid blogger concept that makes it so important ! but thankfully also , you don’t seem overly conscientious of it .
these old European halls have the right amount of reverb when they are full with people. kind of imperial, to impress visitors with an overwhelming mighty sound. are you checking out the basic modes of the echoes, that a hall delivers, for instance 200ms and 600ms? this suggests what the optimal BPM in theory for a music piece would be. or, what speed of playing to avoid, because would trigger confusing echoes.
German and Austrian TV crews are total perfectionists, easy to freak out about them wahaha... But if the "victim" behaves, results are absolutely great and beautiful. At one time I didn't, because they could not get enough of all that preparations and retries.😜😇 DW - many many thanks for doing this!!
WOW you also use canva? 🤩 its very surprising for me since we students also use that application. true, its hard to concentrate and practice when one is tired (especially, for a person like me who has insomnia💀) but the good thing is that it gives more focus on expressing and awareness towards energy conservation ahahahaha. the people were really supportive and prosporous towards classical music and your piano music. i love the cafe☕ good luck in your next projects though! (-one of your supporters from afar!🎹🌙)
Hey Tiffany! Love the vlogs. Odd question, but I'm kind of surprised that you are able to play the Schumann Toccata since I always imagined you had smaller hands. Can you reach a tenth over the keyboard? I have small hands myself, and I've always been sad that I can't play that piece since i can't reach an over-the-keyboard tenth.
Thank you for your insights in what was a lovely concert in an interesting venue. Was the recording of the concert made for the festival, or was this done on behalf of DW as part of the film?
Oh, so that's it! I've been watching her practice video on Patreon, and I wondered where she got such a tall tripod to hold her camera at the back of the hall, and who the people were wandering around while she played. Now I know the answer to both questions! 🤔🙂
Oh gosh... a daunting thought. I just hope he isn't rolling in his grave from my videos and more importantly, from my playing of music 😳 I hope I'm doing him justice 🙏
@@TiffanyPoonpianist I believe they would appreciate the openness and experimenting, because it involves many young people in active listening to the music and also to the vlog talk and direct discussions, and trying on their own.
Random question, where's your white and black blouse from, it looks super cool! And I really appreciate that you take time to show other people the "behind the scenes " of touring life🙏
With a free for all piano at a cafe , glad it was not too ' raucous'. Your look is very stylish and Tiffany has boldly performed where others are not able to perform.
Tiffany, I do not think we have heard you play Schumann's romances op 28 (no.2 was appropriated by Benno Moiseiwitsch). I really want to hear your performance of them.
Tiffany you can lower your excitement by getting your energy in abdomen, think low and grounded on feet. You can handle your excitement. Good luck! I love following your journey and you play very very well.
Tiffany I know you as very gifted musican you do not have paraninoyia you are just ingrossed in your work stange sound become exsadurated food is what you need. Rain is good for a clean start. Love ya stop stressing you will get there in the mole hills are not mountains they are mole hills be positive. 🌹🍋xx :) ❤
Goodness, couldn't they at least have tuned the piano at the cafe? Anyway, I love your videos. Have you done a video on how not to be boring at the piano? For some of us, the sound of most pianos is not beautiful or gripping in the way a violin, cello, or great human voice can be. And of course, it's hard to vary the tone of a piano, impossible to add vibrato, and every note decays. The obvious solutions include touch, articulation, voicing, and use of dynamics. Glen Gould's Bach shows us how engaging clear articulation can be. But Gould also shows how a quirky, self-indulgent performance can diminish the listener's experience. And too many pianists, in an effort to be expressive, lose the rhythm or forward momentum of a piece. Other pianists play in ways that become predictable. Not you. Your playing is natural and full of feeling, but always seems true to the intentions of the composer. It's neither predictable nor boring. It's honest. Thanks!
You look as though you enjoyed sweeping the floor with the big brush ! The rude intruder was perhaps a cleaner. Hotel cleaners often do hold keys to rooms to clean and you need a 'Do not Disturb notice ' on the door. Your brave doing your own Ironing, what would you do if your concert dress went up in flames! Glad you found food, you should not go without food before performing.
And as Tiffany got used to speaking to her own personal camera, a bigger, impersonal one is thrust to her dead center during a pop-up for fans. Such is life for a public figure - where the Truman Show becomes a reality.
Those electronic hotel key cards are not secure. It can be a scary and threatening experience when your door opens unexpectedly -- it happened to me at 4:35 AM in Porto Alegre in 2004. Be careful. Take precautions.
There are indeed ways to improve security for a lot of hotel rooms, most do already offer a functionality that would block most other cards, but that would still let some staff inside if needed be. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7TgOOYnde5Y.html
@@Hans-gb4mv There's not much you can do if it is someone on the staff who invades your room. That is what happened to me in Porto Alegre. I vacated the luxury accomodation and transferred to a cheap, run down hotel that had secure locks on the doors.
3:58 was the boy looking sad because of the temperature was too high or the humidity was too low? If it's because of the temperature, maybe German's thermometer is different from tropical country's thermometer 😂😂
Have you thought of buying a portable foldable piano? It fits in a suitcase, and you could use it in the hotel room if you just feel like rehearsing some random short passage whenever you feel like it.
Not useful at all. Practicing and playing piano is about feeling intimately the piano keys and reacting to the sounds and touch to make the sounds. I'd rather not practice than practice on a gadget.
So glad your non-traditional venue worked out! I know you want mainly Schumann's opinion on how his music should be played, but maybe you'll make an exception for Rachmaninoff? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qU4ZLZF2gZY.html
