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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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Piano lesson: Chopin B minor Waltz, Op. 69, no 2. (bouncing phrases back and forth)

Posted on March 14, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Teaching affords the greatest opportunity to listen objectively to students serving up their menu of pieces. It allows ideas to spring forward and bounce back. Today, my Greek student resurrected his Chopin B Minor Waltz in preparation for a forthcoming … 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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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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An afternoon of all that Jazz with pianists, Dick Hyman and Dave Frank

Posted on December 16, 2012 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Dick Hyman, jazz pianist, shared his art with an engaged NYC audience in the good company of moderator, Dave Frank. Continue reading →

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Play the piano like it’s a violin (Thoughts on practicing Chopin’s Prelude in E minor, Op. 28 no. 4)

Posted on November 22, 2012 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

If pianists would think of the string or vocal model when playing, their phrases would be sculpted and shaped nicely. Continue reading →

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The joy of working on Chopin’s phrasing with an adult student (Waltz in A minor, No. 19, Op. Posth.) Videos

Posted on November 13, 2012 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

A teacher/student musical collaboration is a uniquely poetic experience.. 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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Tag Archives: Frederic Chopin

A Tribute to traveling piano teachers

Piano lesson: Chopin B minor Waltz, Op. 69, no 2. (bouncing phrases back and forth)

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

A Love Story Woven on a Chopin Canvas

An afternoon of all that Jazz with pianists, Dick Hyman and Dave Frank

Play the piano like it’s a violin (Thoughts on practicing Chopin’s Prelude in E minor, Op. 28 no. 4)

The joy of working on Chopin’s phrasing with an adult student (Waltz in A minor, No. 19, Op. Posth.) Videos

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

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