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,…
Playing With Wolfgang 1.1: Clara & Robert Sitting In A Tree
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…
Playing With Wolfgang
No one was more surprised than I when I conceived of the Menuetto to my Mozart Sonata as a heated discussion between a married couple. When I talked about it,…
Guest Post: Ramblings of an “Older” Pianist
I invited my friend and adult student Marsha Foresman to come and speak to my pre-college students about her piano journey and why it's important for them to keep playing…