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Read MoreLouise Farrenc: 19th Century Composer, Scholar, Pianist and Equal Pay Activist
I really enjoyed writing about this fascinating scholar, pianist, teacher and composer – who successfully fought for equal pay while the lone female instructor at the Paris Conservatory in the mid-ninteenth century. The Naxos label recently released an album featuring her brilliant symphonies. From my article: And you need these ...
Read MorePicking Music for That Special Day
A blog post I wrote for the Associated Chamber Music Players: There are a lot of logistical chores that pile up during wedding planning, but when I needed a break from organizing menus, cake decorations and flowers for my nuptials I always returned to my favorite task – planning the ...
Read MoreMusical gymnastics
As I admired the somersaulting Olympic magicians a few weeks ago, the way the commentators described the relative ease or difficulty of a particular gymnastics routine got me thinking about how listeners can assess musical challenges. The gymnasts’ moves of course all looked outrageously hard to us less-flexible mortals, but ...
Read MoreSilencing the inner critic…
“Fire the Critic (And hire a Self-Coach)” is one piece of advice in Noa Kageyama’s excellent Bulletproof Musician course – which I recently took at Juilliard’s evening division. When you’re trying to get in the ‘zone’ and play freely, the last thing you need is a pesky little voice in ...
Read MoreThe tyranny of music teachers
J. K. Simmons certainly deserved Best Supporting Actor for his chilling portrayal in “Whiplash” of Fletcher – the monstrous jazz instructor who subjects his drummer protégée to repeated humiliations and profanity-laden insults. Many musicians doubtless have horror stories about tyrant teachers – some who perhaps still managed to be inspirational ...
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