Happy Little Trees
Last Wednesday evening, while my class piano students were working on their improvs for the midterm, I suddenly found myself saying, “You don’t need to apologize! Maybe in your world…
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…
Finale 2012: Lessons in Peaceful Coexistance
1. While there is certainly a need to vent multiple frustrations when working with Finale, there is no need to use foul language. I have begun taking a page…
PA Shorts: Interviews From Newbies and Oldbies
Since 2009, Malan Wilkinson has interviewed over 60 pianists on her site, Pianists From The Inside. The likes of Ralph Votapek, Michal Tal, Ilana Vered, Andre Gavrilov, and Pierre-Arnaud Dablemont…
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…
PA Shorts: Practice, Perfection, & Personality
Lately, cyberspace has been full of posts and articles dealing with practice and perfection. Together, they have all got me thinking hard about both myself and my students. We can…
Artist Portrait: Adam Gyorgy
Adam Gyorgy grinned as we began our Skyping. I could imagine that he had just bounded into the room. “ I’m sorry we are late. I was at Carnegie Hall…
Review: Sound Sketches, Supersonics, Soundwaves, & Soundscapes
Sound Sketches Books 1 & 3: Graham Lynch Graham writes the following about his Sound Sketches: The inspirations behind the series were in part the ordres of Couperin ...and the…