Zehn Tage bevor Deutschland/Türkiye'den önce otuz bir gün

Merhaba ve Günaydin!
     Günaydin is "Good Morning" or "Guten Morgen" auf Deutsch. It is getting to that moment where I realize I have too much to do and only ten days to accomplish everything. Today I will be teaching my voice students all day then auditioning for the regional opera company followed by a full dress rehearsal for opera scenes. I suppose I'll need to do homework at some point.
     Yesterday I took time to notify my bank I'll be going over seas for a length of time this summer. I've also been reading the United State's warnings and helpful hints for those traveling over seas during this time. I'm very thankful that my international connecting flights both leaving and returning are through Canada. Likewise, I fly directly from Canada to Germany. Therefore, my flights are not in the red-zone as much as other flights.
     Because this summer is such an enormous project, I have allowed Turkey and Germany to permeate my
life for the past year in a slow acceleration towards the summer. In piano lessons this semester I am studying Mozart's Alla Turca a rondo he wrote using Turkish influences. Here are my personal opinions on what makes this piece "Turkish"

 An orchestral version:

http://youtu.be/se_Swf7-68M

The piano version:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGDHe14m8ew

Turkish Janissary Band as known for its percussion and distinctive rhythms. Turkish popular and folk music has also come to be recognized with much of the same percussive and rhythmic distinction. What Mozart adds is character. Mozart is known for his operas more so than any other works and has been given due credit for the characterization with which his music relates to individual characters in those operas. With each section of the rondo, there is a different character being portrayed-all Turkish in nature and bearing the same theme, but each very distinctive and individual. The Janissary Marches would use different themes themselves depending on their battle tactics. A good example of this can be found in this video below of a recreation of Janissary Marches in Istanbul, Turkey:

http://youtu.be/D0Fyf63qI_E

Here is your challenge! Listen for a little bit to the Janissary Marches in Turkey, then listen to either the piano or orchestral version of Alla Turca

SOMETHING FUN

Here is a link to a drummer who added a drum part to the Alla Turca. It is fabulous and he has a good feel for those moments where the percussion desires to be more or less.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zI2-obHP8s