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Expression Is the Need of My Soul

I have often walked by my piano, even though I know that when I play I solve problems better, I am more peaceful, and I have a sense of positive fullness. As an international expert in innovation, I...

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On the Hook to Play at My Brother’s Wedding

Photo by Phil Settels. My 12 straight years of weekly piano lessons and twice-yearly recitals stopped abruptly when I graduated high school. Years went by without my taking lessons, performing,...

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A Marriage of Poetry and Classical Piano Music

“. . . Now I want something different, Something different, without a name, I know surely that I will be lost, dead. . .” So lamented Terenti Graneli, the 20th century poet from the Republic of...

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Don’t Sit at the Piano Like a Tree Trunk

Of the many teachers that amateur pianist Nino Dangadze had during her youth in the Republic of Georgia, the one who revolutionized her playing was Ana Ergemlidze. In this interview with GRAND PIANO...

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The Old, Yellowish Piano Keys

Nino Dangadze plays Rêverie by A. Ovenberg. At age 14, drained by the pressure of the piano lessons for the previous seven years, I was looking forward to moving on with my life, as far away from the...

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Falling in Love with Bach

I wasn’t expecting to fall in love in the summer, but I did. With Bach. And like any relationship worth having, it required much more work than I had ever anticipated. Summer meant a hiatus from my...

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A Senior Rabbi Finding Time to Practice Piano

Sometimes when seated at the piano–besotted with the harmonies, exalted by the rhythms–adult piano students relegate their careers to time-consuming day jobs. Their chief concern becomes finding time...

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Piano Practice: The Wonder of Solitude

Central Park Sunday, a watercolor by Contributing Artist Annika Connor. Growing up in New York City, I became accustomed to living with noise. Yet amidst screeching subways, blasting horns, and...

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Finding Her Dream Music at a Hair Salon

“You know how there’s something in everyone’s life that they don’t want to live without? For some it’s their laptop, for others it’s their cell phone or coffee. I feel like I could give up everything...

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Nana Asatiani Plays the Debussy Clair de Lune

Nana Asatiani plays the Debussy Clair de Lune. Musings from Nana Asatiani, Amateur Pianist “Clair de Lune is a wonderful melody to listen to, but it’s even more wonderful to play. It brings out a sea...

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Joyce Morton Plays the Liszt Un Sospiro

Joyce Morton plays Un Sospiro from Franz Liszt’s Three Concert Études. I recently decided to try to build a repertoire of pieces I had once played, and I started with the Liszt Un Sospiro. I love...

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Robin Sloane Seibert Plays Beethoven Bagatelle No. 2

Adult piano student Robin Sloane Seibert plays Beethoven Bagatelle Opus 119 No. 2. Last year, a friend’s exuberant performance of seven Beethoven Bagatelles prompted me to learn one myself. The...

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Goodbye, Dear Yamaha

“my piano” by Tricia via Creative Commons. While listening to a recording of Alfred Brendel performing Beethoven’s Bagatelles, I decided to take a short break from the mounds of books my husband and I...

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A Fly on the Wall at an Adult Piano Lesson

In this exclusive video, Cosmo Buono alternates teaching an adult piano lesson with his student Hector Rodriguez, with a conversation with Nancy M. Williams. Since my recent return to piano practice,...

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Alberto De Salas Plays Bernstein’s Suite from West Side Story

In this exclusive video, Alberto rehearses Leonard Bernstein’s Suite from West Side Story with violinist Sarah Mankes, both of the Amateur Classical Musicians Association. I enjoy the crossover appeal...

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Musical Mirages

“deck and shadows” by EvilBahumut via Creative Commons. I felt like a moon-eyed character from a 1970s Tootsie Roll commercial during my two-week summer vacation. Only my obsessive craving was for the...

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Joyce Morton Plays Beethoven’s Appassionata, Second Movement

Andante con moto, the second movement of Beethoven’s Appassionata (Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Opus 57), played by Joyce Morton. I first learned Beethoven’s Appassionata over a decade ago. After...

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How to Memorize Piano Music, Including Help from Music Theory

An adult piano student resolves to memorize Schumann’s “From Foreign Lands and People,” and uses music theory and her tactile sense to accomplish the feat.Robin Sloane Seibert, Contributing Editor The...

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