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Reinventing the inventions - piano music education
The fall afternoon is crisp and beautiful. The eager piano student bounces to his regularly scheduled lesson. After initial greetings and pleasantries ......(Continue Reading) Ebony and ivory: Michael Coveney on an opera that takes the notion of the humble piano tuner into fresh territory
Musical theatre and films with pianos in them have come a very long way since Julian Slade's cast of silly eccentrics danced around their magic keyboard ......(Continue Reading)From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuoso Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland - Book Review
From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuoso Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland, by R. Allen Lott. Oxford University Press (198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016), 2003. 384 pp....(Continue Reading)Adolescence is not a disease; coping with the challenges and taking pleasure in teaching "average" teenage piano students
"Teenage students are such an amazing package. They can be so brilliant, so intelligent, so profound, and so insightful, yet at the same time so foolish, ......(Continue Reading)Knowing the score: rehearsing Balanchine ballets is about to get easier, thanks to a new series of notated piano scores - Brief Article
THE SCORE HE WAS HANDED WAS FULL OF Xs AND SLASHES AND ARROWS. BUT PIANIST CHRISTIAN MATJIAS had little idea of the road he was traveling in 1990 when ......(Continue Reading)
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