I’m late with this announcement. I’m late with everything. This has been a crazy busy year: David and I each wrote two books, taught about 25 students a piece, a, while he taught up to seven college classes, and I went abroad at least half a dozen times. But I’m pleased to announce that The [...]
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Complete Idiot’s Guide to Teaching Music on Your Own
Posted in Music, Teaching on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Beethoven’s Fur Elise and Viral Marketing
Posted in Marketing, Music, tagged Business of freelancing, linkedin on October 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Funnily enough, or perhaps it’s inevitable, of all the articles (156 at this writing) I’ve published on Suite 101, the one that is getting the most number of hits on the day of its launch isn’t about hiking or music, where I have lots of readers, but, funnily enough, marketing. Viral marketing, to be precise. [...]
I Came, I Shopped, I Got the… What’s it Called?
Posted in Music, Travel Writing, tagged linkedin, souvenir shopping, Travel Writing on September 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some people collect stamps. I collect musical instruments I can’t play, the more exotic the better. In real life, I don’t like shopping. I can go months telling myself I don’t need a new pair of shoes, just to avoid the agony of trying to find a pair of size 11s that don’t hurt my [...]
Irony in the Teaching Trenches
Posted in Music, Performing, Teaching, tagged linkedin, van cliburn competition on June 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I’ve had the giggles this week, especially while teaching. It all started with the electrifying performances at the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (www.cliburn.tv). The poise of these young performers is almost unbelievable, and their death-defying acts of pianism are inspiring, amazing, exciting, and rejuvenating. I can’t tell you how many times in the last few days I’ve [...]
Van Cliburn Competition: Seeing the Mountaintop
Posted in Music, Performing, tagged van cliburn piano competition on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes it’s really important to see just what the tippy-top highest standard in your field of endeavor is: Pianists can see the tip of the mountaintop at the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. It’s one of the most exciting events in classical music, and those of you who think that that’s equivalent to “one of the [...]
Black Friday Jam
Posted in Music, Performing, tagged jamming on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t think of anything worse than setting foot inside a store — any store — the weekend after Thanksgiving. To me, Black Friday is an idiocy; I don’t care if they’re GIVING HDTVs away; I’m not going. So I’m part of another, different tradition: A group of us get together to play and perform music. Thanksgiving [...]
Fod Fest Footage
Posted in Music, Performing, tagged Daniel Pearl, FOD Fest, FODFest on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some unedited footage from the West Coast leg of the Fod Fest tour. Wish I could have been there! http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=45501975
More on Fod Fest
Posted in Creative Communities, Music, Performing, tagged Daniel Pearl, FOD Fest, FODFest on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The fourth annual FODFest is in full swing, and I wanted to describe what playing at opening night was like so anyone living near one of the 14 concert venues can get a feel for why this is something you shouldn’t miss. The opening night concert had by far the biggest and most impressive venue on the [...]
Post FodFest Concert
Posted in Music, Performing, tagged FOD Fest, FODFest on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We did the first concert tonight, and I’m too exhausted to blog about it. But here’s (most of) the schedule: 10/10 – Mahaiwe Theater, Great Barrington, MA 10/11 –Narrows Arts Center, Fall River, MA 10/12 – Acoustic Café, Bridgeport, CT 10/13 – Sullivan Hall, NYC 10/14 – IOTA, Washington, DC 10/15 – The Grey Eagle, Asheville, [...]
Post Concert Lull
Posted in Music, Performing on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Weekend’s over. Band is gone. House is quiet, almost eerie. Whew! Practice all afternoon Friday, and Saturday. Frayed tempers as somewhere in the neghborhood of 10 musicians living in 5 different states realized that we can’t throw together 20-something songs some of us have never played before (and others of us have never HEARD before) in two days and make [...]
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