Easy Classics & Current Hits
This coming year, I am scheduled to teach several classes of older and adult advanced beginners and I need some easy but satisfying classical arrangements. Plus, I have some intermediate…
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…
Vintage Piano Ad Posters
Check out this great collection of vintage music/piano posters from Ads Past. If you are taken to their homepage, just click on the category music in the left bar.
Brand New Links
I have added quite a few new links to the site in the past week including one to a selection of books for all ages (some are free) from Google…
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.…
Summer Reading
For me, one of the great things about summer is that I have the time to catch up on my reading. Actually, it is 100+ degrees for months on end…
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…