Review: Tales of a Musical Journey
Irina Gorin’s Tales of a Musical Journey starts a young beginner on a trek through an enchanted musical land called The Magical Kingdom of Sounds. Along the way, students meet…
PA Shorts: Fireworks
Some American pianistic fireworks in honor of The Glorious 4th! These are the best kind of fireworks for us in Arizona since our state has mostly been on fire lately.…
Finding Inspiration
It is human nature to have a gut belief that everyone finds musical inspiration just as you do. The way we operate is just so intrinsic to who we are…
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,…
PA Shorts: Then And Now
In the beginning of the school year when I was nine, all eighty or so of us in the 4th grade were shepherded into the cafeteria of our Northern California…
Review: Musical Goodies for iPad
forScore Here is a useful, all purpose reader for musical scores. You do need to read the directions. Because of space, the toolbar controls do not remain visible and it…
PA Shorts: How Many Hours???
I was catching up in the blogosphere today and came across a post by Elissa Milne about her black key piece, Safari. I was struck by the way she used…
Artist Portrait: Sarah Fimm
Last week, singer songwriter Sarah Fimm and I chatted via Skype about what drew her into music, her teachers and mentors, helping young artists, her new album Near Infinite Possibility,…