Playing With Wolfgang « Piano Addict

Playing With Wolfgang: Frank “SugarChile” Robinson

By Piano Addict, on March 5th, 2012%

In the last few days quite a few people have sent me emails that include a video of a boy playing astounding boogie and the claim that he is a young Little Richard. To give credit where it is due, this video is actually of Frank “SugarChile” Robinson. Frank was born in Detroit and was . . . → Read More: Playing With Wolfgang: Frank “SugarChile” Robinson

Playing With Wolfgang: Ravel in Pi

By Piano Addict, on February 14th, 2012%

This Valentine’s morning, as I browsed through my Twitter feed, I was instantly transported back to one spring semester during my undergraduate days. The tweet went like this:

A Strauss waltz requires a slightly longer downbeat, about 1.14 longer than beats 2 & 3. Thus, you should conduct not in 3, but in pi. (@mmusing)

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Playing With Wolfgang: Fliszt

By Piano Addict, on October 28th, 2011%

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I was a practical child. I always needed to know what something was for. My favorite question was why? My Dad sang a popular nonsense song to me when I was 6 or 7 and I remember how frustrated he was that I didn’t understand the silliness and wanted to try to make . . . → Read More: Playing With Wolfgang: Fliszt

Playing With Wolfgang: Debussy – Footsteps, Long Hair, & Fans

By Piano Addict, on September 12th, 2011%

Footsteps in the Snow

One weekend, many years ago, as I was preparing for my Master’s Recital (I will leave the many up to your imagination but please, dear reader, be kind), my now husband decided that I was about to crack and needed a day away from the piano. I did not agree and . . . → Read More: Playing With Wolfgang: Debussy – Footsteps, Long Hair, & Fans

Playing With Wolfgang 1.1: Clara & Robert Sitting In A Tree

By Piano Addict, on August 15th, 2011%

I have always secretly had it in for Clara Schumann. There was that Trio that I was forced to work on for an entire semester and then there is the fact that Clara was performing concerts from memory at the ripe old age of 9, the first person ever to do so. Later, she was . . . → Read More: Playing With Wolfgang 1.1: Clara & Robert Sitting In A Tree