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Blog Post Estonia Pianos Vs Steinway & Sons
Probably a lot of you have, and on the other hand many others haven't heard of the new kid on the block - The Estonia Piano. Andy Quinn Playing an Estonia According to the ...
Blog Post Writing For Piano
This is a Guest post by Chip Michael of Interchanging Idioms Since I am not a composer  myself, I found it a most interesting insight on the workings of composing. A couple years a...
Blog Post Jamey Aebersold's Free Hand Book
Edward Weiss Piano musings blog is always a great place to go and find new and wonderful piano resources. Apparently Jamey Aebersold, the jazz man, but not only has put down in one slim volu...
Blog Post Music For Silent Films
This is a little of topic, but since I found the concept so charming and different, I thought I would share it with you. Chris Becker has a project going Along with some Silent film makers (I wasn'...
Blog Post Piano Hero
I am sure you have all heard of Guitar Hero , the video game and the ongoing debate about its influence on music, musicians and the next generation of musician. I happen to be all for moving on w...
Blog Post Depression and Music
It can be very difficult to suffer through depression.  It can be so difficult that even getting up the oomph to play piano can seem like an insurmountable task. I've just come through a circumstant...
Blog Post Immortality to Whom?
Galen Brown from Sequenza 21 pointed me in the direction of an article in the Guardian about Carl Orff , the German composer, his dubious political passed and problematic personality. Orff is kn...
Blog Post Can You Hear More Than What You're Playing?
  Its truly a wonderful feeling to create, to play, to do anything musically really. But is it enough for oyur brain to play? Can you feel what you're playing? When you're playing can you "hear" ...
Blog Post Great Piano Playing
Words are worthless in the face of this. Source: The Well Tempered Blog
Blog Post Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists - The Ebook
This is a Project Guntenberg eBook of Harriette Brower's 1915 book Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianist featuring some of the greatest pianist of the earliest 20h century. I fo...
Blog Post Online Piano Literature Resource
Natalie Wickham from Music Matters blog pointed me in the direction of a great data base for 20th Century Piano Lit. that could come in as a very handy tool for teachers and pianist alike. The si...
Blog Post Love Me Or Leave Me
Caldonia by redhotjazz1 I thought this was a great way to end the week This video is from Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) staring Doris Day in her peak and James Cagne...
Blog Post Solo Piano Radio
Edward Weiss from Piano Musings recommended listening to Solopianoradio.com , I had never heard of it before so of course I went over to listen, and as he predicts in his post I did listen for...
Blog Post Give "Piece" a Chance
  Yes, I know the title has the word "piece," but it's intentional. Let me tell you why. When someone who has been self taught, or has been taking lessons for a short period of time and...
Blog Post Escaping the Block
What do you do when you are experiencing a creative block while either writing or playing?  I sit in front of the computer and stare at the screen, waiting for it to give me something, anything....
Blog Post Do You Market Yourself Like Rapunzel?
Marketing always seems like such a dirty word when it comes in connection to art. Why is that? If we were in any other business besides the arts, probably we would have no problem at all marketing ou...
Blog Post Richard Good With the London Symphony Orchestra
I really wish I was in Now, because if I was I would certainly have bought tickets to go and see Richard Goode soloing in MOZART Piano Concerto No 18 with the London Symphony Orchestra. The NY T...
Blog Post Sarah Palin - Pianists muse
Now the elections are over, who says we can't squeeze some last minute entertainment out of them? I found this really funny video on Musical Perceptions . Sarah Palin Seems li...
Blog Post The Mystery Of The Piano In The Woods
This is Wierd. A Harwich police officer examines the Baldwin piano discovered on conservation land yesterday . JAKE O'CALLAGHAN Its nearly old news now but its Wierdness earned my attenti...
Blog Post 20th Century Music Treasure Chest
I am less familiar with contemporary classical music and I was delighted when Classical Convert recommended this Youtube collection by NewMusicXX who is a graduate of Berkeley College of Music. ...
Blog Post Eye Candy
Isn't this beautiful? Designed by Yves Plattard Via  Monotonous Forest
Blog Post Disaster Or Growth?
Of course the hard economic times world wide will affect every nook and cranny of our lives sooner or later, and not only banks and financial institutions will suffer but Orchestras and opera houses ...
Blog Post Playing a Four Handed Piece Solo
I loved this video and performance of Fazil Say - and I suppose that it is the ultimate solution for a live solo performance of a four hand piece. I like the inovation and the performa...
Blog Post Mourning with Music
  It's interesting that if I'm sad and having a hard time finding words of my own, that music can offer so much. Even instrumentals with the right chords and the right tempo can bring tears to my...
Blog Post A long journey; a life.
I remember that when I was in grade 5 I would tidy the kindergarten rooms because they had pianos in them. It was worth the agony of having to pick up after other people, as I hate to tidy after...
Blog Post Mahler
Mahler: Symphony No 3, 1st movement (Valery Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra) I was inspired into Mahlerdom after reading a post on Mahler Owes me Ten Bucks that bassicaly dev...
Blog Post Very Short Interview with Andre Watts
I just was just getting into reading the interview with pianist Andre Watts on Indystar.com, when it ended abruptly. Usually in an interview or Q&A there will be at least 8-10 questions, but...
Blog Post Learn Bosa Nova From the Pianologists
For those of you who are not familiar with the Pianologist , pianologist is in there own words: a blog about innovative piano playing. Pianologist consists of 2 pianists - KCLau and Rewsnat. W...
Blog Post Juggling Time
When you decide what it is you want to be when you grow up, you are usually unaware of the difference between your dream, or how you picture your day will look, to the way it actually looks in realit...
Blog Post Art And Snobbery.
Joshua Nemith did two great posts Freelancing in the "New" economy (part 1) and Part 2 in which he comes up with 9 different ideas of how to increase your income. Some of the ideas will be frowne...
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