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Capturing the first sunrise in our practicing and performing

Posted on May 18, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

I always ponder the process of learning a new piece and how I want to experience and re-experience a freshness that seems to come with my earliest exposure to the printed page. As I set out my fingering, isolate lines … Continue reading →

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Two musical Eulogies for Newtown’s fallen

Posted on January 28, 2013 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Two musical offerings are grief-filled expressions of enduring loss in Newtown, Connecticut. Continue reading →

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Piano Technique: Exploring contrasting emotions when practicing a piece (as Daniil Trifonov, pianist, recommended in his videotaped interview)

Posted on February 21, 2012 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

I put into “practice” one of Trifonov’s recommendations, as I mentored a second year piano student this evening. We started the lesson by playing “happy” and then “angry” consecutive staccato thirds. (“Hopping” from Dozen a Day) Eventually after completing our … Continue reading →

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When a NY Times music critic and reader clash over a piano recital

Posted on January 12, 2012 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

I must admit that I chose not to put the title of this writing in the first person. Perhaps, in an egalitarian spirit, I wanted to identify with any audience member or newspaper reader, who might be offended by a … Continue reading →

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Lugansky’s piano teacher, Tatiana Nikolayeva, displayed greatness in her own right

Posted on January 9, 2012 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

What an irony that Nikolai Lugansky, star pupil of Tatiana Nikolayeva was bestowed, perhaps by chance, the masculine form of his teacher-to-be’s last name. A prophetic link for both. I noticed that the esteemed teacher Dimitri Bashkirov, refers to his … Continue reading →

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The Piano Repertoire: Does making fingering/hand adjustments constitute a “swindle?”

Posted on January 8, 2012 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Seymour Bernstein, author of With Your Own Two Hands, remarked that “Chopin wrote out an outline for an intended method of teaching piano. And when he died he left it to Charles Alkan who never finished it. Wouldn’t you think … Continue reading →

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Piano Instruction: Schumann Arabesque, Op. 18-Using a supple wrist follow through motion, and parceling out voices (Video)

Posted on July 14, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

The Schumann Arabesque is a heartfelt character piece from the Romantic era. It requires the player to have a very supple wrist to realize the lilt of buoyant, legato dotted eighth/16th figures that permeate the music. Though the composition is … Continue reading →

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Piano Instruction: Practicing the Middle Section B/ Robert Schumann’s “Of Foreign Lands and Peoples” (Kinderszenen) TWO Videos

Posted on May 18, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

PART B, “Of Foreign Lands and Peoples” (Kinderszenen by Robert Schumann) The middle section introduces a counter-melody in the Bass that deserves attention. It’s in the rich range of the cello and it has the same RHYTMIC OUTLINE as the … Continue reading →

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Schumann’s Scenes of Childhood: Layered learning, No. 1 “Of Foreign Lands and Peoples” (5 videos/5 parts)

Posted on May 16, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Just as I parceled out voices in the opening of Schubert’s Impromptu in Gb Major, Op. 90, I’ve done the same with Robert Schumann’s “Of Foreign Lands and Peoples” from his Kinderszenen (Scenes of Childhood) In both these works Romantic … Continue reading →

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The Joy of Teaching Piano to Young Children (Videos)

Posted on January 23, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Starting a very young child on a musical journey is joyful, exciting and challenging. The first baby steps taken at the piano will be memorable for both teacher and student, so careful thought and preparation are needed. At the very … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Robert Schumann

Capturing the first sunrise in our practicing and performing

Two musical Eulogies for Newtown’s fallen

Piano Technique: Exploring contrasting emotions when practicing a piece (as Daniil Trifonov, pianist, recommended in his videotaped interview)

When a NY Times music critic and reader clash over a piano recital

Lugansky’s piano teacher, Tatiana Nikolayeva, displayed greatness in her own right

The Piano Repertoire: Does making fingering/hand adjustments constitute a “swindle?”

Piano Instruction: Schumann Arabesque, Op. 18-Using a supple wrist follow through motion, and parceling out voices (Video)

Piano Instruction: Practicing the Middle Section B/ Robert Schumann’s “Of Foreign Lands and Peoples” (Kinderszenen) TWO Videos

Schumann’s Scenes of Childhood: Layered learning, No. 1 “Of Foreign Lands and Peoples” (5 videos/5 parts)

The Joy of Teaching Piano to Young Children (Videos)

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