Playing With Wolfgang: Harpsichording with Rameau & Couperin
I remember clearly my first meeting with a harpsichord. I was in my first semester of music history and my assigned presentation was to demonstrate French harpsichord music for the…
Playing With Wolfgang: Suites for the 4th!
I count myself very lucky that my undergrad teacher passed his love of 20th Century American music down to me. He himself had studied with Johana Harris at Colorado Springs…
Playing With Wolfgang: Schubert Interrupted
We all know that it is rude to interrupt a person when they are speaking. Most of us learned this early in our lives. Later, we discovered that there are…
Guest Post: Dennise Ontiveros Rivera
In this post, Dennise describes her journey to music and teaching. When Dennise came to me at EAC, she told me that there were few teachers in the area of…
Playing With Wolfgang: Frank “SugarChile” Robinson
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…
Playing With Wolfgang: Ravel in Pi
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…
Playing With Wolfgang: Fliszt
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…
Playing With Wolfgang: Debussy – Footsteps, Long Hair, & Fans
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,…