WHAT ARE WE TEACHING OUR FUTURE PIANISTS? Recent events at the college level of piano education and performance has brought to my attention an area of great importance, especially in how it affects our future piano teachers and performers. Let me begin with a little background before I state my case. I graduated with a […]
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A Whole ‘Nother World
Last fall I learned about a world I knew existed, but one that, well, frightened me. It had its own language, its own sound and worse…its own tools! Yes, I’m speaking about the world of harpsichords and fortepianos! I spent 2 weeks at the J.C. Neupert Company in Bamberg Germany alternately freezing and being humbled […]
Welcome to Retail – Allegro Pianos Manhattan
For the past 6 months I’ve been helping build a new high end piano retail store in New York City. Allegro Pianos Manhattan is an expansion of Allegro Pianos of Stamford CT. We represent Bosendorfer, Bluthner, Steingraeber, Estonia and Kawai. I split my time between maintaining all the pianos and working with customers. It’s been […]
Maybe the Times are a-changing…
Frederic Chiu played the new Yamaha CFX concert grand in a well received recital at the Metropolitian Museum of Art in New York. The extremely positive review in the New York Times also featured something that has been very rare in the past, a photo that included the name of a non-New York based piano […]
My Christmas present to myself
It’s a great DVD of a large Russian babushka playing the piano and yes, I am that nerdy.
Love Music = Love Alex Ross
If you love music and you haven’t discovered Alex Ross, you’re in for a treat. Ross is the music critic at The New Yorker and the author of 2 wonderful books on music.