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A Tribute to traveling piano teachers

Posted on April 15, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

I’m lucky that for decades I’ve been a stationary piano teacher, home-based for Skype, but having two youngsters whom I teach at their house up in the El Cerrito Hills. Fortunately, I get chauffeured to and from the location so … Continue reading →

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The polishing stage of learning can be dessert for a piano teacher and student

Posted on March 9, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

I relish time spent with a student who’s baby-stepped a musical journey with patience and self-acceptance. The polishing stage is icing on the cake, a dessert following the main course. In this case, an adult pupil kept to a regimen … Continue reading →

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Hand-switching and Chopin (making a piano duet out of a solo)

Posted on March 7, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

I did a double take watching footage of yesterday’s lesson in the El Cerrito Hills. Seeing two arms, one half-sleeved, and the other firmly wrapped in olive green, made me wonder if an alien from Mars had landed squarely at … Continue reading →

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Into the Hills with the Sound of Music –a Baldwin Acrosonic “acoustic” sings

Posted on March 5, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

The video attached to this writing validates the beauty of music-making on a well-maintained, though 1940s vintage era acoustic piano. Baldwin Acrosonics were the Cadillacs of the spinet and console variety pianos. They had a noticeable innovation compared to their … Continue reading →

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Piano Technique: Are arpeggios “boring?” I don’t think so!

Posted on February 22, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Arpeggios don’t deserve a bad rap! Continue reading →

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No Skimming the surface in piano warm-ups and a Chopin exchange with a sixth-grader

Posted on January 24, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Lucy started piano about four years ago in El Cerrito, a short Bart ride from Berkeley, my current residence. A transfer student, she’d been immersed in Bastien primers and hand-outs of various patriotic pieces. Note-reading skills were minimal. Over time, … Continue reading →

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A Love Story Woven on a Chopin Canvas

Posted on January 14, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

A few years ago, I received a telling message through my Authors Den website. John Bidwell, a spirited short story writer and poet, shared more than a literary connection with me. He waxed poetic about his late mother and father, … Continue reading →

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Old World piano playing (1949) with a pronounced wrist break

Posted on September 29, 2012 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

The supple wrist amounts to a “wrist break” that is discouraged among partisans of the Taubman approach. In the main, they adhere to a forearm-driven piano technique along with rotation, and relaxation . The videos embedded, however, contradict such rigid thinking about the wrist, as demonstrated by the performance of a Polish pianist (1949) A Chopin Mazurka is energized by redundant wrist breaks without incurred injury. As one colleague related in reference to Taubman/Golandsky, “how could decades of Russian teaching so easily be tossed aside.” Continue reading →

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Where harmonies shape phrases: Chopin’s Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4

Posted on August 23, 2012 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Chopin cloaked one of his most memorable preludes in lush harmonies that reveal the beauty of a simple melody. Continue reading →

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“The Secret Genius” of Pianist, Vitaly Margulis

Posted on April 7, 2012 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

A serendipitous Facebook Friend request from Jura Margulis on the eve of my birthday, led to this bundle of love delivered on You Tube. As oxymoronic as it may sound, the pianist’s father, Vitaly, channeled through cyber, wooed me into … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Chopin

A Tribute to traveling piano teachers

The polishing stage of learning can be dessert for a piano teacher and student

Hand-switching and Chopin (making a piano duet out of a solo)

Into the Hills with the Sound of Music –a Baldwin Acrosonic “acoustic” sings

Piano Technique: Are arpeggios “boring?” I don’t think so!

No Skimming the surface in piano warm-ups and a Chopin exchange with a sixth-grader

A Love Story Woven on a Chopin Canvas

Old World piano playing (1949) with a pronounced wrist break

Where harmonies shape phrases: Chopin’s Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4

“The Secret Genius” of Pianist, Vitaly Margulis

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