SuiteVideos: The Return
In this SuiteVideos: opera, piano duos, commercials, a surprising lullaby, comedy, and more! What happens when friends make a commercial for you Operas in 10 minutes Satie meets Brubeck Madden…
Ahhh… High School
I remember my high school years as being a busy and mostly happy time. At last, I could incorporate music and theater into my school curriculum and into my after…
SuiteVideos
You might be amused by these videos all involving pianos--played in novel ways, smashed, & blown up. Suite! What happens to bad trades Nora the piano cat English Trebuchet Superglue…
SuiteQuotes
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. Oscar Levant (talking his way out of a speeding ticket) Get up from that piano you're hurtin'…
Goodbye Denver
We had a great time in the Denver area. It is lovely there at the foot of the Rockies and as an added bonus it isn't 100+ degrees. We didn't…
MythBusters aka PianoBusters
Musical MythBusters Here is a Concerto in C4 from the team.
I’m a TFDer: The Play in Playing the Piano
In her book, Bird by Bird, Ann Lamott writes about the common fantasy view of successful writers as people who “sit down at their desks every morning feeling like a…
Creativity & Method
I was pursuing the old inter-web this morning and came across an interview with Montreal pianist, André Laplante. In it Mr. Laplante touches on the difference between piano performance and art.…