November 2011
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Single piece
- polish a piece to the summit of your abilities, create a...
– 185 • A concert pianist needs to excel at a couple different things: « Pianist to Pianist, by Jura Margulis
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The finger connects to the key, the hand connects to the hammer, the arm...
– 104 • Reciprocal connections « Pianist to Pianist, by Jura Margulis
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Tips - Performance Anxiety →
I’m getting ready for a class recital in December … some good solid advice here!
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Please don't be so musical! – Telegraph Blogs -... →
I often hear in masterclasses a student who is self-consciously being ‘musical’, who is shaping melodies or dovetailing rubatos in a way which sounds both artificial and, ironically, wooden. It is a issue in slow movements especially when there seems to be a fear of doing nothing.
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scriabinist asked: great page! do you own a piano yourself? i wish my place was big enough to fit one - i would be on it all day and night.
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fal-parsi replied to your photo: Harp Piano (by Chris Canipe)
get the heck out
i KNOW! I guess it makes sense that these are so rare: it seems like the worst of both worlds. Imagine the tiny sound of a harp with none of the ability to do anything really idiomatically harp-ish.
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“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”
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John Berger (via koltesagar)
Not that strange if you ask me. For example, the raw materials of music are *air* and time; and where photography captures time by freezing a moment, music happens completely *in* time. The magic when a musician shapes our collective experience of time is far stranger...
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Ned Rorem - Piano Album →
The Boosey & Hawkes website makes it inexplicably difficult to find what you’re looking for. But “60 Notes for Judy” is in this Piano Album if you’d like to play it.
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(via Helene Grimaud Playing Bartok | Sound Tracks | PBS Video)
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