-
Recent Posts
- Practicing Challenging Pieces: If we’re over a barrel, we can still learn something valuable
- Sound imagination and tactile, tonal expression at the piano for diverse compositional eras
- Seek and Ye shall find the right FREE piano!
- Pianist, Seymour Bernstein revisits the Schumann Arabesque at the age of 90
- My early learning efforts (J.S. Bach) under the influence of Peter Feuchtwanger
Archives
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
Categories
- " Piotr Illyich Tchaikovsky
- "A Century of Jazz" with Dick Hyman
- "A Game" by Kabalevsky
- "A Little Nightmare Music"
- "A Room with a View"
- "After the Fall"
- "Aglow with Creative Fire"
- "America" from West Side Story
- "Butterfly" by Grieg
- "Children Playing" by Daniel Gottlob Turk
- "Children Playing" by Daniel Gottlub Turk
- "Clowns" by William Gillock
- "Did Somebody Say Fresno" compiled by Aviva Kirsten
- "Did Somebody Say Fresno?! " Part V
- "Did Somebody Say Fresno?!"
- "Embraceable You"
- "Evening in the Country" by Bartok
- "Frere Jacques"
- "funeral for a cracked plate"
- "Fur Elise" by Beethoven
- "Hall of Fame"
- "Harmony of the Angels
- "Hopping" from Dozen a Day
- "How could this happen to my piano?" by Shirley Kirsten
- "I am the Violin"
- "I am the Violin" a documentary about Ida Haendel
- "In the Garden" by Samuel Maykapar
- "Inquietude" by Burgmuller
- "Is Music the Key to Success"
- "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring"
- "Just Being At the Piano"
- "Let's sing a Yiddish Song" by Ruth Rubin
- "Of Foreign Lands and Peoples" by Schumann
- "Over the Rainbow"
- "Portrait of Lívia Rév pianist / teaching / 90th Birthda
- "Progress" by Burgmuller
- "Sleeping Child" by Robert Schumann
- "Somewhere" by Leonard Bernstein
- "Somewhere" from West Side Story
- "Splashing in the Brook" by Gillock
- "Stars on a Summer Night" by William Gillock
- "Tales of a Musical Journey"
- "Tales of a Musical Journey" by Irina Gorin
- "The Clear Stream" by Burgmuller
- "The Endangered Piano Technician"
- "The Endangered Piano Technician" by James Boyk
- "The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music"
- "The Inner Game of Tennis"
- "The Return" by Burgmuller
- "This is How I Jam" by Tony Levine
- "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
- "When do I Play my Best" by Seymour Bernstein
- "When you Wish Upon a Star" from Walt Disney
- 100 years
- 11225 San Pablo Avenue
- 1793 Solano Avenue
- 1958 Tschaikovsky Piano Competition
- 1961 movie West Side Story
- 1966 film documentary on Artur Rubinstein
- 19th Century music
- 20th Century music
- 25 Progressive Piano Pieces op. 100 by Burgmuller
- 25 Progressive Pieces Op. 100 by Burgmuller
- 4-hand piano music
- 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog
- 5 takes piano lessons
- 510thekid
- 6 degrees of separation
- 750000 dollar piano
- 77 Sunset Strip
- A Band of Wives
- A flat Major scale
- a German Documentary about Murray Perahia
- a musical love story
- a peak experience
- a piano that draws
- a sheep in wolf's clothin
- a sheep in wolf's clothing
- A-440 Pianos
- Ab Major scale
- Abby Whiteside
- Accent on Gillock Volume two Later Elementary
- acoustic piano
- acoustic pianos
- Acrosonic Baldwin
- Acrosonic piano
- Adapt-A-Stand
- Adrianne Fine Bank
- adult beginner piano students
- adult instruction
- adult piano instruction
- adult piano instructn
- adult piano lessons
- adult piano pupils
- adult piano recital
- adult piano student
- adult piano student instruction
- adult piano students
- adult piano students say the darndest things
- adult piano studies
- adult piano teaching
- advertising
- Aeolian piano
- Aeolian piano company
- Aeolian spinet
- After the Revolution by Amy Herzog
- Aiden Cat
- Aiden cat dances to the Chopin Waltz in C# minor
- Aiden the Cat
- Aikido
- Aimi Kobayashi
- Alaska
- Albert Appel
- Album for the Young
- Album for the Young by Robert Schumann
- Alessandro Deljavan
- Alexander Scriabin
- Alexandre Tansman
- Alexey Chernov
- Alfred Brendel
- Alfred Cortot
- Alfred publications
- alica delarrocha
- Alicia de Larrocha
- Allejulia from Mozart's Exultate Jubilate
- Alvin Ailey Dance Company
- Amazon
- Amazon Irina Morozova
- American Ballet Theater
- American Cancer Society
- American Cancer Society Discovery Shop
- Amsterdam Avenue and 74th Street
- Amtrak 711
- Amtrak 712
- Amtrak station
- Amtral the San Joaquin
- Amy Herzog
- Amy Herzog playwright
- An interview with Steven Isserlis
- Ana's Flowers in Berkeley CA
- analysis Bach Fugue in C minor
- analysis Bach Little Prelude in D minor BWV 926
- Analysis of a Bach Fugue
- andante movement Mozart sonata in C K. 545
- Anders Ericsson
- Andras Schiff
- Andreas Schiff piano recital
- Andreas Werz
- Andrew Li pianist
- Andrew M. Gooden
- Andy Strong Haddorff Postcards
- Angela Hewitt
- Angela Hewitt plays Bach
- Ann Arbor Michigan
- Anna Cantor piano teacher to Evgeny Kissin
- Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook
- Anna Serova violist
- Anne Meux
- Anthony Tommasini
- Anthony Tommasini NY Times music reviewer
- antique airplanes
- antique lamps
- antique pianos
- antique planes
- antiques
- Antonio Levine
- Appel Farm
- Appel Farm Art and Music Center
- Appel Farm in Elmer New Jersey
- Appel Farm Music Camp
- Apple iPhone
- Apple Store
- appraisal piano
- arioso 7
- arioso7
- Aris Jerome
- Aristo Sham
- Arius 141 digital piano
- arm and hand rotation in playing piano
- Aronoff Frances Webber: Music and Young Children
- arpeggios
- arpeggios for the piano
- arpeggios in 10ths
- arpeggios in inversions
- art and mixed media
- art and music
- Art Linkletter
- art store
- Arthur Rubenstein
- Arthur Rubinstein
- Artis Wodehouse
- Artur Rubenstein
- Artur Rubinstein
- Artur Rubinstein pianist
- Artur Rubstein and Chopin
- Artur Schnabel
- Arturo Bennedetti Michelangeli
- Ashburnham
- Ashburnham Massachusetts
- AT and T
- athletic coaching
- athletic training
- athletics and piano
- attentive listening
- attentive listening and phrasing at the piano
- attorney
- audio engineer
- Audrey Bookspan
- Australia
- authors den
- authorsden
- Avery Fisher Hall
- Bach
- Bach counterpoint
- Bach D minor Harpsichord Concerto
- Bach D minor piano concerto
- Bach French Suite in G
- Bach French Suites
- Bach Fugue form and analysis
- Bach imitiation
- Bach Invention
- Bach Invention 1 in C Major
- Bach Invention 13 in A minor
- Bach Invention 4 in d minor
- Bach Invention BWV 784
- Bach Invention in C Major BWV 772
- Bach Invention no. 4 in d minor BWV775
- Bach Invention no.1 in C Major BWV 772
- Bach Inventions
- Bach keyboard works
- Bach Little Fugue in C BWV 952
- Bach Little Fugue in C major BWV 952
- Bach Little Prelude in D minor BWV 926
- Bach Little Prelude in G minor BWV 929
- Bach Page on Facebook
- Bach Prelude and Fugue BWV847
- Bach Prelude BWV 847 in C minor
- Bach Prelude in C BWV 846
- Bach Prelude in C from the Well-Tempered Clavier
- Bach Prelude in C from Well-Tempered Clavier
- Bach Prelude in C Major
- Bach Prelude in C minor BWV 847
- Bach Prelude in C minor BWV847
- Bach Prelude in C Well-Tempered Clavier
- Bach Prelude in F minor BWV 881
- Bach Prelude no. 17
- Bach Sinfornia in F minor BWV 795
- Bach to nature
- Bach Two Part Inventions
- Bach Two-part Inventions
- Bach with Pluck
- Bach with Pluck played by Elaine Comparone and Dusan Bogdanovic
- Bach with Pluck recorded by Elaine Comparone and Dusan Bogdanovich
- Bach's tempos in clavier music
- background music
- Baldwin
- Baldwin 165 grand piano
- Baldwin Acrosonic
- Baldwin Acrosonic piano
- Baldwin Artist grand piano
- Baldwin grand piano
- Baldwin Hamilton 1929 grand piano
- Baldwin Hamilton grand
- Baldwin Hamilton grand piano
- Baldwin Hamilton grand piano 1929
- Baldwin Hamilton piano
- Baldwin piano
- Baldwin pianos
- ballet
- ballet accompanist
- Bally Fitness Center
- Bally Total Fitness
- Bally's Gym
- Bally's Gym Fresno CA
- Baltimore Maryland
- Bam Boomerang
- Barbara Hamilton-Holway minister
- Barbara Lister-Sink
- Barbicon in London England
- Barbie doll collection
- Barbie dolls
- Bard College
- Baroque era
- baroque era keyboard music
- Baroque era music
- Baroque era tunings
- Baroque form fugue
- Baroque keyboard music
- Baroque keyboard music phrasing
- Baroque music
- Baroque Music for the keyboard
- Baroque music tempo
- Baroque period music
- Baroque trills
- Bart system in California
- Bartok
- Bartok pieces for Children
- baseball
- baseball and piano
- Bashkirov piano master class
- Bashkirov piano master class in Paris
- bassoon
- Bastien "Taco Joe"
- Bay area
- Bay area piano instruction
- Bay area piano movers
- Beatles albums
- Beatriz Boizan
- beautiful phrasing
- Bechstein
- Beethoven
- Beethoven "Tempest" in Dminor Op. 31 no.2
- Beethoven "Tempest" Sonata
- Beethoven "Tempest" sonata op. 31 no. 2
- Beethoven Bagatelles
- Beethoven Emperor Concerto no. 5
- Beethoven Fur Elise
- Beethoven Moonlight
- Beethoven Moonlight Sonata
- Beethoven Moonlight Sonata Presto movement
- Beethoven Pathetique
- Beethoven Pathetique Sonata
- Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8
- Beethoven Piano Store in Manhattan
- Beethoven Sonata Appassionata
- Beethoven Sonata no. 18 Op. 31 no.3 second movement
- Beethoven Sonata Op. 31 no 2
- Beethoven Sonata Pathetique
- Beethoven Sonata Pathetique op. 13 in c minor
- Beethoven Sonata Pathetique Op. 13 No. 8
- Beethoven sonata quasi una fantasia
- Beethoven Sonatina in F Major
- Beethoven Sonatina in F Major anh.5
- Beethoven Tempest sonata
- Beethoven Tempest Sonata first movement
- Beethoven Violin Concerto
- Beethoven's Op. 109 Sonata
- beginning piano instruction
- Bel Kaufman
- Bela Bartok
- Bela Bartok
- bela bartok
- Bela Bartok and Livia Rev
- Benjamin Steinhardt
- Berceuse by Chopin
- Berkeley
- Berkeley CA
- Berkeley California
- Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
- Berkeley piano studio
- Berkeley piano technician
- Berkeley rental
- Berkeley Writers Circle
- Berkleley housing search
- Berkshire Festival
- Berkshire Music Festival
- Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall
- Beth Levin
- Beth Levin pianist
- Beth Levin piano
- Betty Boop collection
- Bezerkeley
- Big Apple
- big hands playing unwanted notes
- Bill Haley and the Comets
- Birds
- Birds Book 1 composed by Seymour Bernstein
- Birds Book 2 composed by Seymour Bernstein
- birthdays
- black keys
- black notes on the piano
- blinds and shades
- blocking on Facebook
- blog
- blog metrics
- blogger
- blogging
- blogging about piano
- blogmetrics
- blogmetrics.com
- blogmetrics.org
- blogmetris.org
- blogs about piano
- Blue Hill Maine
- Blue Jasmine
- Blue Moon
- Bluebook of pianos
- bluebookofpianos.com
- Bluthner grand piano
- Bob Dylan
- Bobby De Niro
- Bohzanov pianist
- boosting the left hand in piano playing
- Boris Berman
- Boris Berman Masterclass
- Bosendorfer piano
- Boston Ballet
- Boston Fine Arts Quartet
- Boston grand piano
- Boston Symphony
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- boxing
- boxing lessons
- Brahms
- Brahms Fantasies Op. 116
- Brahms Intermezzo Op. 118 no. 2
- breathing and piano lessons
- Brian Ganz
- Bridgeport Connecticut
- Brigitte Engerer
- Broadway theater
- Bronx
- Bronx dialect
- Brooke Macnamara
- Brooklyn Bridge Park
- Bruce Loeb
- Bruno Monsaingeon
- bubbe
- Buenos Aires
- building piano technique
- Bullard and West Discovery Store American Cancer Society
- Bulldog fever Fresno
- Bulldog fever in Fresno
- Bullfinch's Mythology
- Burgmuller
- Burgmuller "La Chasse"
- Burgmuller 25 Progressive Pieces
- Burgmuller Gracefulness
- Burgmuller Harmony of the Angels
- Burgmuller Inquietude
- Burgmuller L'Orage
- Burgmuller L'Orage Op. 109 no. 13
- Burgmuller Op. 100
- Burgmuller pastorale
- Burgmuller Pastorale Op. 100
- Burgmuller Sincerity
- Burgmuller Tarentelle
- Burgmuller Tender Flower
- Burgmuller The Chase
- Burgmuller The Storm Op. 109 No. 13
- Burgmuller's Op. 100 Twenty-Five Progressive Pieces
- Burguller Op. 100 Progessive Piano Pices
- But Who Shall Abide the Day of His Coming
- Butterfly by Edvard Grieg
- buying a used piano
- buying used piano
- BWV 816
- BWV862
- C Major arpeggio
- C Major Scale
- C major scale at the piano
- C# minor arpeggio
- C# minor Arpeggio for the piano
- C. Bender
- C.P.E. Bach
- C.P.E. Bach keyboard sonata in G Major
- cabinet grand
- Cal Performances in Berkeley CA
- California
- California Music Teacher Magazine
- camera tricks
- Camille Saint-Saens
- camp memories
- canceling piano lessons
- Cantata 78 by J.S. Bach performed at the First Moravian Church in New York City
- Cantor Michael Loring
- CAPRICE ESPAGNOL MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI
- Carey Beebe
- Carl Demler
- Carmel Indiana
- Carnegie Hall
- Carnival of the Animals
- Carol Burnett
- Caroline Scheer
- Casio
- Casio 830 digital piano
- casio privia 110
- cast iron piano plate
- cat
- Cate Blanchett
- Cato
- cats
- Cats Memories
- cd baby
- cdbaby
- cdbaby.com
- celebrating Christmas with music
- Celebration MTAC Fresno
- cello
- Central California MTAC Baroque Festival
- Central Park
- Central Valley
- Challenger composition by Robert De Gaetano
- chamber ensemble
- chamber music
- chamber music for piano
- Chamber Orchestra of Europe
- Chanukah
- Chapman University
- Charles Alkan
- Charles Munch
- Chesterfields
- chicken coops
- Chickering grand piano
- Chickering piano
- children's music
- Children's pieces
- China
- Chinese harp
- choir concert
- choose a piano technician to evaluate a piano
- Chopin
- Chopin B minor Waltz
- Chopin B minor Waltz op. 69 No. 2
- Chopin Barcarolle
- Chopin Black Key Etude
- Chopin Concerto in F minor
- Chopin Concerto no. 2
- Chopin Etude
- Chopin Fantasie-Impromptu in C# minor
- Chopin Mazurka
- Chopin Mazurka in G minor Op. 63 no. 3
- Chopin Mazurka Op. 63 No.3
- Chopin Mazurka Op. 68 No. 2
- Chopin Nocturne in E minor Op. 72 no. 1
- Chopin Nocturne in F Major Op. 15 No. 1
- Chopin Nocturnes
- Chopin pedaling
- Chopin Piano Competition
- Chopin Piano Concerto in E minor
- Chopin Prelude in B minor op. 28
- Chopin Prelude in E Minor Op. 28 no. 4
- Chopin Prelude Op. 28 No. 4
- Chopin Preludes
- Chopin Preludes Op. 28
- Chopin Scherzo No. 1
- Chopin Waltz
- Chopin Waltz in A minor
- Chopin Waltz in A minor no. 10 Op. posthumous
- Chopin Waltz in A minor no. 19
- Chopin Waltz in A minor No. 19 Op. posthumous
- Chopin Waltz in A minor Op. Posthumous
- Chopin Waltz in Ab Major Op. 69 no. 1
- Chopin Waltz in Ab Op. 69 no. 1
- Chopin Waltz in B minor
- Chopin Waltz in B minor Op. 69 No. 2
- Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor
- Chopin Waltz in c# minor Op. 64 no.2
- Chopin Waltz no. 14 in e minor
- Chopin Waltz no. 19 in A Minor op. posthumous
- Chopin Waltz Op. 64 no. 1
- Chopin Waltz Op. 64 no. 2
- Chopin Waltzes
- Chopin's music
- Chopin's Revolutionary Etude Op. 10 no. 12
- Chopin.org
- chord voicing at the piano
- choreography
- Christian Petzold Minuet in G minor
- Christian Zimerman
- Christine Bronstein
- Christmas
- Christmas music
- Christoph Eschenbach
- Christopher Rothko
- chromaticism
- chuck Terpo
- Cincinnati World Piano Competition
- Cinnamon Bear
- Cinnamon Bear at Piano World
- Circle Dance by Beyer
- Circle of Fifths
- class pictures from P.S. 122
- Classical era
- classical era music
- Classical era piano music
- Classical era sonata
- Classical era sonatas
- Classical era sonatina
- classical music
- Classical music blog
- Classical music piano blog
- Classical music piano blog'
- Classical Music with Cathy Fuller
- classical period piano music
- Classical period sonata
- classical sonata
- Classical sonatina
- classisima
- classisima.com
- classissima
- classissima. om
- classissima.com
- classissima.org
- classissisma.com
- classissma
- classisssima.com
- Classsical music blog
- classsisima
- classsissima
- classsissima.com
- Claude Debussy
- Claudia Arrau
- Claudio Arrau
- Clavinova
- cleaning ivory keys
- cleaning ivory keys on a piano
- Clementi Sonatina in C Op. 36 no. 1
- Clementi Sonatina in C Op. 36 no. 1 Vivace
- Clementi Sonatina in G Op. 36 No. 5
- Clementi Sonatina Op. 36
- Clementi Sonatina Op. 36 no. 3
- Clinkscale's Makers of the Piano
- Clovis California
- Clowns by Kabalevsky
- coffee
- color guard
- coloratura Joyce Di Donato
- Columbia University football field
- com
- combining LIVE and SKYPED piano lessons
- Comcast
- comedy
- comedy at the piano
- compare performances of Liszt Contemplation no. 3
- comparing a Haddorff to a Steinway
- comparing performances of Mozart Sonata in C K. 545
- composer
- composers
- composing
- composing and piano teaching
- composing at piano lessons
- composing in the piano studio
- computer problems
- computer trashing
- conflicts of interest in judging local piano compeitions
- Connections on LinkedIn
- Connell York
- contrary motion scales for the piano
- Conversations with Arrau by Joseph Horowitz
- Conversations with Arrau by Joseph Horwitz
- Cornelius Gurlitt
- Cornet
- Cornetist
- correcting note mistakes
- cosmetic appearances of pianos
- counterpoint
- Couperin
- cracked piano plate
- Cradle Song by Felix Rybicki
- Craigs List
- craigslist scammers
- Creative Fresno
- creative learning environment
- creativity and composing at the piano
- cricket
- crossed hands
- cultivating the singing tone at the piano
- cultural differences between New York City and Berkeley
- culture club
- CVP509
- cyber technology
- Cyprien Katsaris
- Cyprien Katsaris Masterclass
- Czar Nicholas I
- Cziffra
- Cziffra arrangement Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov
- D major scale
- d minor scale
- D.C.
- Dale Erwin
- Dale Erwin Modesto California
- Dale Erwin pianotechnician and rebuilder
- Dampp Chaser system
- dance accompanist
- dance musician
- dance-like tempo in Baroque keyboard music
- Daniel Barenboim
- Daniel Gottlob Turk
- Daniel Mori
- Daniel Waitzman
- Daniil Trifonov
- Daniil Trifonov piano recital in Fresno California
- Dario Marianelli
- Dave Frank
- Dave Schappel
- Dave Schappell
- David Bidwell
- David Freundlich
- David V.R. Bowles
- Debussy
- Debussy Arabesque no. 1
- Debussy Arabesque No. 1 by Claude Debussy
- Debussy page on Facebook
- Debussy Preludes
- delete
- delete you tube uploads
- Dell computer
- Denis Foreman
- Dennie Mehocich violin teacher
- Derek Sivers
- developing sight-reading skills as an aid to memorization
- developing the Left Hand in piano playing
- dgbI
- Dick Hyman
- Dietrich Fischer-Diskau
- digital keyboards at Guitar Center
- digital photo
- digital piano
- digital pianos
- Diller-Quaille duets
- Diller-Quaille piano materials
- diminished 7th arpeggios
- diminished 7th chords
- diminished chords
- Dimitri Bashkirov
- Dimitri Kabalevksy
- Dimitri Kabalevsky
- Dimitry Kabalevksy
- Dimitry Kabalevsky
- director Paul Cohen
- disagreeing with a music critic
- Disc Makers
- Discovering Color Behind the Kyes The Essence of the Russian School of Piano Playing by Rada Bukhman
- Discovery store American Cancer Society
- discrimination against the black keys on the piano
- Diskmakers
- Do or Die documentary about Lang Lang
- Do or Die Lang Lang's Story
- Do piano lessons have to be fun
- documentary
- Documentary about Kissin
- Documentary on Richter pianist
- documentary on Vladimir Horowitz
- Domenico Scarlatti
- Domenico Scarlatti birthday
- Domenico Scarlatti Minuetto in C L. 217
- Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in C K. 159
- Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in D Major K. 492
- Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in D Major L. 14
- Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in d minor k. 9
- Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in E Major K. 380
- Domenico Scarlatti Toccata in D minor
- Donald Pippin
- Donald Pittman
- Douglas Freundlich
- Dowd Harpsichord
- Dozen a Day by Edna-Mae Burnam
- DR Documentary on Arthur Rubinstein
- Dr. Diane Deutsch
- Drawing room sonata
- dream piano
- drop-off in piano students
- Druskininkai
- Duane and Joanne Wong
- Duane and Joanne Wong owners of Music Works
- duet playing for piano
- duet playing in the piano lesson
- duet playing with piano students
- duo pianists
- Dusan Bogdanovic guitarist
- E minor Arpeggio
- e minor scales
- E.L. Lancaster
- E.M. Forster
- Eagles Talent Speakers Bureau
- ear training
- Earl Wild
- Earl Wild Seven Virtuoso Etudes on Gershwin Songs
- early music education
- early piano instruction
- East Bay International Creative Community
- East Bronx
- Eastern European Jews
- Eberfest
- Edinburgh Scotland
- Edith Piaf
- Edna Golandsky
- Edvard Grieg
- Edvard Grieg plays "Butterfly" from his Lyric Pieces
- Egon Petri
- El
- El Cerrito
- El Cerrito CA
- El Cerrito California
- El Cerrito Hills
- El Cerrito nature trails
- El Cerrito Patch
- El Cerrito Patch blogger
- El Cerrito piano instruction
- El Cerrito piano lessons
- El Cerrito piano studio
- El Cerrito Trail Trekkers
- El Cerrito wild turkey
- Elaine Comparone
- Elaine Comparone Harpsichord
- Elaine Comparone Harpsichordist
- Eleanor Bidwell
- electronic keyboard
- electronic keyboards
- Elfin Dance
- Elissa Milne
- Elmer New Jersey
- Elvis Presley
- emailing a piano lesson termination
- Emanuel Ax
- Emma Leiuman
- Emotion and Meaning in Music
- Emotion and Meaning in Music by Leonard B. Meyer
- emotion in music
- emotional meaning of music
- empfindsamer stil
- Ena Bronstein
- Ena Bronstein Barton
- Ena Bronstein pianist
- end of the year piano recitals
- Ensler Lighting
- Erhu
- Erma Wheatley
- Erwin's Piano in Modesto
- esercizi per gravicembalo
- essay
- essercizi
- Essex Piano
- estate sale
- Ethan Hawke
- Ethan Hawke documentary
- Ethel Elfenbein
- ethnomusicology
- Etude Club
- Eugen Lehner
- Eugene Lehner
- Eugene Ormandy
- eurhythmics
- Evelyn Glennie
- Evgeni Bozhanov
- Evgeny Kissin
- Exposition in piano sonata
- Exterior Street in the Bronx
- f minor scale in contrary motion
- F Sharp Major scale
- F# Major scale
- f# minor scale
- Faber Developing Artist Original Keyboard Classics (preparatory album)
- Faber Developing Artist Series
- Faber Older beginner Accelerated Piano Adventures
- Faber Piano Adventures
- Faber Primer Piano Adventures
- Faber the Developing Artist Series
- Face Time
- Facebook friend
- Facebook Friends
- Facebook The Art of Piano Pedagogy
- FACETIME
- Fairyland in Treble by Nikolas Sideris
- FAME NYC HS of Performing Arts
- family genealogy
- family Geneology
- Fantasia in C minor K.475 by Mozart
- Fantasie-Impromptu
- FAO Schwarz
- Faschingsschwank aus Wien by Schumann
- Fat Apples in Berkeley California
- Faust Harrison Pianos
- favorites on Facebook
- Fazioli
- Featherbed Lane
- feline
- felines
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- Felix Rybicki
- Ffrederic Chopin
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Fig Garden Village
- film
- film documentary
- film documentary on Artur Rubinstein
- filming piano lessons
- finger staccato
- fingering
- fingering and phrasing at the piano
- fingering and piano technique
- fingering choices and pianists
- fire wire cable
- firewire cable
- First Moravian Church in New York City
- First Moravian Church NYC
- First Moravian Church of NYC
- five finger positions
- five finger positions at the piano
- five finger warm-ups
- Five for Fighting
- Five for Fighting a Hundred Years
- five-finger warm-ups at the piano
- flexible tempo
- Flower piano
- flute
- football
- forearm rotation
- forearm staccato
- Forever and Always
- former piano students
- forward rolling wrist motion
- Frances Clark
- Frances Clark A Time to Begin
- Frances Clark Music Tree
- Frances Webber Aronoff
- Franz Josef Haydn
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Franz Liszt
- Franz Mohr
- Franz Schubert
- Franz Schubert sonatas
- Frederic Chopin
- French Suite
- French Suite in G BWV 816
- French Suites
- French Suites by Bach
- Frere Jacques
- Fresno
- Fresno Bee
- Fresno CA
- Fresno California
- Fresno Caliornia
- Fresno designated landmark
- Fresno Famous
- fresno filmmakers alliance
- Fresno Historical Society
- Fresno in the movies
- Fresno miniseries
- Fresno Piano Store
- Fresno State Bulldogs
- Fresno State football
- Fresno State Girls Softball
- Fresno State Recital Hall
- Fresno State University
- Fresno Superior Court
- Fresno the TV miniseries with Carol Burnett
- Friedrich Burgmuller
- Friedrich Edelmann
- Friends of Five Creeks
- Fritz composes
- Fugue
- Fugue Analysis
- fugue form
- fugue form analysis
- fugue form in the Baroque
- Fugue in C minor BWV 847
- Fugue in F minor
- Fugue Structure
- functional harmony
- Fundamentals of Piano Theory by Keith Snell and Martha Ashleigh
- Fundamentals of Piano Theory by Snell and Ashleigh
- Fur Elise
- Fur Elise by Beethoven
- Fur Elise for solo and orchestra
- g minor scales and arpeggios
- Gabor Reisinger
- Gallop by Kabalevsky
- Galop by Kabalevsky
- games
- Gary Graffman
- General McArthur
- Geneva International
- George Cziffra
- George Friedrich Handel
- George Gershwin
- George Gershwin Concerto in F concert transcription by Grace Castagnetta
- George Gershwin piano rolls
- George Gershwin Prelude no. 2
- George Gershwin Preludes 1 to 3
- George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
- George Gerwshin
- George Li
- George Li pianist
- Georgii Tcherkin
- Georgy Cziffra
- Gerard Schwarz
- German
- Germany
- Gershwin CD
- Gershwin Improvisations fro Solo Piano
- Gershwin Prelude no. 2
- Gershwin Prelude no. 2 and fingering changes
- Gershwin Virtuoso Selections played by Irina Morozova
- Gerswhin CD
- Gillock
- Gillock "Clowns"
- Gillock "Flamenco"
- Gillock Argentina
- Gillock composer
- Gilmore artist award recipient Ingrid Fliter
- Glenn Gould
- Gluck Orfeo and Eurydice
- Gnessin Conservatory of music
- Gooden College Connection
- Gooden College Connection Annual Dinner and Silent Auction
- Google +
- Google + Circle
- Google adware
- Google translation
- Gospel Music
- graduation Yearbook from the New York City High School of Performing Arts
- Grammy awards
- grand piano
- grand pianos
- Grave Beethoven Pathetique Sonata
- gray spots on ivory keys
- great pianists
- great pianists of the past
- great pianists speak
- Greek mythology
- Greenwich Village
- Greg Hood piano mover
- Greg McCrea piano mover
- Grieg Lyric Pieces
- Grieg Piano Concerto
- Grigori Sokolov is a legendary pianist
- Grigori Sokolov pianist
- Grigory Sokolov
- Group Theater
- Guiomar Novaes
- Guitar Center
- Guitar Center El Cerrito
- guitars sold at Music Works
- Gulbransen piano
- Guzheng
- Gwendolyn Mok
- gym workouts to help piano playing
- gymnastics
- Gyorgy Cziffra
- Haddorff
- Haddorff piano
- Haddorff piano company Rockford
- Haddorrff console piano
- Haddorrff upright piano
- Hal Leonard
- Hal Leonard Music Publishing
- Halida Dinova
- Halina Czerny-Stefanska
- Hallejulia Chorus sung by the Silent Monks
- Hamburg Germany
- Hamburg Steinway
- hammer mechanism of the piano
- Handel's Messiah
- Handel's Messiah arranged by Bill Boyd
- Hannukah
- Hanon studies
- Hans Oviedo
- Happy Birthday
- Harlem jazz hub
- harmonic analysis
- harmonic rhythm
- harmonic rhythm and Bach Prelude BWV 847
- Harmony of the Angels
- Harmony of the Angels by Burgmuller
- harpsichord
- Harpsichord Unlimited
- Harpsichord.org
- Harpsichordist
- Harry Simeone
- Hartt College of Music
- Hartt School of Music
- having a career as a pianist in NYC
- Haydn
- Haydn Sonata Hoboken XVI37 in D
- Haydn Sonata in C
- Haydn Sonata in Eb Haydn Sonata in Eb Hob.XVI:52 (Rondo)
- Haydn Sonata in Eb Hob.XVI:52
- Haydn Sonata in Eb Hob.XVI:52 (Rondo)
- Haydn Sonata no. 35 in C
- Haydn Sonata no. 37 in D
- Haydn Sonata XVI 35 in C
- Haydn Sonatas
- Heinrich Neuhaus
- helping adult piano students with rhythm
- Henry Onorati
- Herbert Gardner
- Heynor and Hans Oviedo
- Hidrau
- high school reunion
- Hillside Club in Berkeley California
- hillsideclub.org
- Hoagie Carmichael
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Holiday greetings
- holiday piano arrangements
- holiday piano music
- Holland
- Hollywood movies that mention Fresno
- Hong Kong
- Horenstainer violin 1799 Mittenwald
- horizontal camera mount
- how to boos piano technique
- how to help children compose
- how to improve memorization at the piano
- how to improve sight-reading at the piano
- how to learn a new piano piece
- How to practice Fur Elise
- How to practice Mozart Sonata in A Major K. 331
- how to practice variation 2 Mozart Sonata in A Major K. 331
- how to review an old piano piece
- how to review an old piece
- how to trill on the piano
- Howard piano
- Hubbard Harpsichord
- Hubbard Harpsichords
- Hubbard Street
- humor
- Hungarian folk songs
- Hungary
- hydraulic piano bench
- hypnosis
- i movie program on Mac
- Icarus
- Ida Haendel
- Ida Haendel violinist
- If God Be For Us
- Ifshin Violins
- Ifshin violins in El Cerrito
- Igor Galenkov
- Ilana Vered pianist
- ILGWU
- Illinois
- iMac
- iMac 21
- iMac computer
- iMac iMovie
- iMac21
- imagination
- imagination and piano technique
- imitative counterpoint
- iMovie
- iMovie softward
- iMovie software
- Impressionist Music
- Impressionistic music
- improving sight reading skills
- improving the left hand at the piano
- improving the performance of the Left Hand in piano playing
- in propria persona
- Indiana University
- Infantry
- Ingrid Fliter
- installing software
- Intermediate level piano repertoire
- Intermezzo Faschingsschwank aus Wien by Schumann
- International Piano Institute at Mannes College
- Internet
- Internet Cello Society
- Internet sale scams
- Internet social networking
- interpretation of Mozart Sonata in C K. 545
- interpretation of Romantic era repertoire
- Interpreting Chopin's music
- interpreting Mozart
- interruptions of Piano lessons by Skype
- Interview with Martha Argerich
- interview with Menahem Pressler
- Invention 13
- Inwood section of Manhattan
- iPad
- iPhone
- iPhone transmitted piano lesson
- Irena Orlov
- Irina Bogdanova
- Irina Gorin
- Irina Gorin piano studio
- Irina Morozova
- Irina Morozova faculty Mannes College of Music
- Irina Morozova pianist
- Irina Morozova plays Gershwin
- Irina Zaritskaya
- Irving Faust
- Irwin Freundlich
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Isaac Raboy shule
- Isaac Stern
- ivory piano keys
- J. C. Bach Prelude in A Minor
- J. Fritz piano
- J.C. Bach
- J.C. Bach Prelude in A mino
- J.S. Bach
- J.S. Bach BWV 952 in C Major
- J.S. Bach Cantata no. 78
- J.S. Bach French Suite No. 5 in G
- J.S. Bach French Suite no. 5 in G Major BWV 816
- J.S. Bach Fugue form
- J.S. Bach Fugue in C minor BWV 847
- J.S. Bach Fugue in C minor BWV847
- J.S. Bach Invention 1 BWV772
- J.S. Bach Invention 13 in A minor
- J.S. Bach Invention 8 BWV 779
- J.S. Bach Invention 8 in F Major BWV779
- J.S. Bach Invention in 13 minor
- J.S. Bach Invention no. 13 in A minor BWV784
- J.S. Bach Little Fugue in C BWV 952
- J.S. Bach Little Prelude in C minor BWV 934
- J.S. Bach Little Prelude in D minor BWV 935
- J.S. Bach Little Preludes
- J.S. Bach Partita in E Major
- J.S. Bach Prelude BWV 847
- J.S. Bach Prelude in Ab
- J.S. Bach Prelude in C from the Well Tempered Clavier
- J.S. Bach Prelude in C minor
- J.S. Bach Prelude in C minor BWV 847
- J.S. Bach Prelude in C minor BWV847
- J.S. Bach Sinfonia in F Major BWV 794
- J.S. Bach Sinfonia in F minor
- J.S. Bach Sinfonia in F minor BWV 785
- J.S. Bach two part Inventions
- J.S. Bach Well Tempered Clavier
- J.S. Bach's commercial
- J.S. Bach's tempos
- James Barron
- James Boyk
- James Boyk pianist
- James Gardner actor
- James Hook Minuet
- James Stagliano
- Jan Karman
- Jane Austen
- Jane Bastien
- Janice Tracy
- Japan
- Japanese
- Japanese Music Institute Berkeley CA
- Jay Ifshin
- jazz
- Jean Phillipe Rameau
- Jeannette Haien
- Jeffrey Biegel
- Jeremy Denk
- Jeremy Eichler
- Jerry Raz Bay area piano technician
- Jessie Taft
- Jewish Contemporary Museum
- Jewish Contemporary Museum in San Francisco
- Jewish Liturgical Music
- Jewish New Year
- Joahnn Sebastian Bach
- Joanna Hoover former Director of the Levine School of Music
- Joe Josephs
- Johann Christian Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude in C
- Johannes Brahms
- Johannn Sebastian Bach
- John Bidwell
- John Browning
- John Cage
- John Dewey
- John Feld
- John Garfield
- John Ondrasik
- John Peters piano technician Berkeley
- John Taylor Gatto
- Johnny Mathis
- Joo and Ingudesman
- Jorunal of a Piano Teacher from New York to California
- Jose Alvira Rodriguez
- Josef Hoffman
- Josef Hofmann
- Josef Lhevinne
- Joseph Haydn
- Josh Rifkin
- Jourhal of a Piano Teacher from New York to California
- Journal of a Piano
- Journal of a Piano Teac her from New York to California
- Journal of a Piano Teacher from New York to CA
- Journal of a Piano Teacher from New York to Calfornia
- Journal of a Piano Teacher from New York to California
- Journal of a Pianot Teacher from New York to California
- Journey of a Piano Teacher from New York to California
- Journey of a Piano Teacher from New York to California
- Journey of a Piano Teacher from New York to California
- Joy Carlin
- Joyce Di Donato
- Joyce DiDonato
- Joyce Hatto
- JS Bach
- jtracy@smithnoble.com
- Judith Jacobs
- Juilliard
- Juilliard School
- Juilliard School Orchestra under Jean Morel
- Jules Massenet
- Julio Colombo El Cerrito neighbor
- Jura Margulis
- Just Being at the Piano
- Just Being at the Piano by Mildred Portney Chase
- Just Being at the Piano by Mildred Portney-Chase
- Just Being at the Piano by Mildred Portney-Chase
- K. 113
- K. 2
- K. 283
- K. 331
- K. 5
- K.545
- Kabalevsky
- Kabalevsky "Clowns"
- Kabalevsky Funny Event
- Kabalevsky Galop
- Kabalevsky Op. 39 Children's pieces
- Karen Olivo in West Side Story
- Karen Olivo stage actress
- Karen West of Book Passages
- Karl Orff
- Katherine Davis
- Kawa
- Kawai
- Kawai piano
- Keith Aikens Registered piano technician
- Keith Snell
- Keith Snell and Martha Ashleigh
- keyboard music
- keyboard technique
- kids say the darndest things
- Kinderszene by Schumann
- Kinderszenen
- Kinderszenen by Robert Schumann
- Kinderszenen by Schumann
- KJOS Music Company
- Klavierhaus
- Klout
- Klout.com
- Knight piano
- Koga
- Kol Nidre
- Kolisch Quarter
- Kolisch Quartet
- Kreisleriana no. 6 by Robert Schumann
- Kremer violinist
- Krystian Zimerman
- Kun-Woo Paik
- La Chasse by Burgmuller
- La SCAT jazz club
- La SCAT jazz club on Lenox Avenue
- Lakewood Estates
- lamp restoration and repair
- lamp shades
- Lance Walton
- Lang Lang
- Lang Lang critics
- Lara Downes
- lark
- Larry Fine
- Latour
- Latour Sonatina
- Latour Sonatina in C
- lawyer
- layered learning
- learning a new piano composition
- learning a new piano piece
- learning piano
- learning to read
- Leepee Joseph
- legato
- legato octaves
- legato pedaling
- legato playing
- legato playing at the piano
- Lenox
- Leon Fleisher
- Leonard B. Meyer Emotion and Meaning in Music
- Leonard Bernstein
- Leonard Bernstein and the NY Philharmonic
- Leonard Pennario
- letting go to music
- Levine School of Music
- Levine School of Music in Washington
- Levine School of Music in Washington D.C.
- Lewisohn Stadium
- Lexus
- Lexus car commercial
- Lillian Freundlich
- Lillian Lefkofsky Freundlich
- Lillian Lefkovsky Freundlich
- Lincoln Center
- Linkedin endorsements
- Linkedin.com
- Lipman Bers
- Liszt
- Liszt "La Campanella"
- Liszt Consolation no. 3
- Liszt Contemplation no. 3
- Lithuania
- Little Drummer Boy Christmas carol
- Little March by Turk
- Live and Skype piano recital
- LIVE webcam piano classes
- Live webcam piano classes given by Shirley Kirsten
- Livia Rev
- Liz on Top of the World
- Liz on Top of the World from Pride and Prejudice
- Local piano competitions and judges
- Logitech camera
- Logitech camera and piano lessons
- Logitech HD camera for Skyping piano lessons
- Logitech HD web cam
- Logitech HD10080p
- LogitechC615HS1080
- long distance piano
- long distance piano instruction
- long distance piano learning
- long distance piano teaching
- long idstance piano learning
- looking for a used piano
- Loretta Gooden
- Los Angeles California
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Louise Goss
- Lucas Debargue
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Lukas Debargue
- Lukas Foss
- Luthier
- Lydia Seifter
- Lyrichord
- Lyrichord Early Music Series
- Mac computer
- Madeleine Carabo-Cone
- Maine
- Major and minor scales
- Major Deegan Highway
- Major minor and diminished chords
- making fingering choices
- making friends in Berkeley California
- Manduca Music Publications
- Manhattan
- Mannes College of Music
- Mannes College the New School for Music
- Marble HIll Memories
- Marble Hill Projects
- March in D by C.P.E. Bach
- Margery Halford
- Margery Halford collection of Scarlatti's Keyboard Works
- Margery Halford editor
- Margery Halford Scarlatti an Inroduc tion to his Keyboard Works
- Maria Szymanowska
- Marianna Prjelvalskaya
- Marianna Prjevalskaya
- Marika Kuzma
- Mariposa
- Marjorie Janove
- Mark Morris Dance Group
- Mark Rothko
- Mark Schecter
- Mark Schecter piano technician
- Mark Schecter Registered Piano Technician
- Mark Schecter RPT
- Martha Argerich
- Martha Ashleigh
- Martin Bookspan
- Mary Kunz Goldman
- Mary Kunz Goldman authorized biographer of Leonard Pennario
- Mary Lord writer
- Mary Poppins
- Mary Poppins music
- Masayuki Koga
- Mason and Hamlin piano
- Massachusetts
- Massachussetts
- Massacusetts
- Masterclass Media Foundation
- Mastering the Chopin Etudes and Other Essays by Abby Whiteside
- Maurizio Pollini
- Mavericks
- Maykapar Russian Composer
- Maysles documentary
- Mazurka
- Mazurka by Maria Szymanowska
- McCrea's AA Piano Moving
- medicitv
- Mel Tolkin
- Melody by Beyer
- memoir
- memorizing piano music
- Menachem Pressler
- Menahem Pressler
- Mendelssohn
- Mendelssohn Children's Piece Op. 72 no. 1
- mental imagery
- Merrywood Music Camp
- Messiah Sing-along at First Presbyterian Church in Fresno
- metronome
- Metropolitan Opera
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- mice
- Michael Kimmelman
- Micky Bookspan
- Mike Bank
- Mildred Portney Chase
- MIlwaukee Bucks
- mind body connection
- mindful piano practicing
- mindful practicing
- Minnesota Orchestra
- Minnesota Orchestra
- Minuet by Reinagle
- Minuet in D Major by Haydn
- Minuet in G from Anna Magdalena's Notebook
- Minuet in G minor from Anna Magdalena Collection
- Mitchell Zeidwig
- Mitsuko Uchida
- Mittenwald
- Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
- modern dance
- molasses
- Molly Goldberg
- molto cantabile
- molto cantabilie
- Monterey Market in Berkeley California
- Moonbeams and other Musical Sketches by Shirley Kirsten
- Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven
- Morey Amsterdam
- Morris Eli Taft
- Moscow
- Moscow Conservatory
- mother and baby
- moths
- mountain lions
- movie
- Mozart
- Mozart 545 Andante
- Mozart Allegretto K. 545
- Mozart Andante K. 545
- Mozart g minor piano quintet
- Mozart Minuet
- Mozart Minuet and Trio
- Mozart Minuet in C K. 6
- Mozart Minuet in F
- Mozart Minuet in F K. 2
- Mozart MInuet in F K.5
- Mozart Minuet in F Major K 2
- Mozart Minuet K. 5
- Mozart Piano Concerto
- Mozart Piano concerto in C K. 467
- Mozart Piano Concerto no. 17 in G K. 453
- Mozart Piano Concerto no. 21 in C
- Mozart Piano concerto no. 21 in C Major
- Mozart piano concerto no. 21 K. 467
- Mozart piano sonata
- Mozart piano Sonata in C K. 545
- Mozart piano sonata K. 545
- Mozart piano sonatas
- Mozart Rondo Alla Turca
- Mozart Rondo Allegretto K. 545
- Mozart Sonata in A Major K. 331
- Mozart Sonata in Bb K. 281
- Mozart Sonata in Bb K. 281 Rondeau
- Mozart Sonata in C K. 545
- Mozart Sonata in C K. 545 Andante
- Mozart Sonata in C K. 545 first movement
- Mozart sonata in C K545
- Mozart Sonata in C Major K. 545 Allegro
- Mozart Sonata in C Major K. 545 Andante
- Mozart Sonata in C Major Rondo Allegretto
- Mozart Sonata in F Major K. 332
- Mozart Sonata in G K 283
- Mozart Sonata in G Major K 283
- Mozart Sonata K. 545
- Mozart Sonata K. 545 Andante
- Mozart Sonata K.331 in A Major
- Mozart Sonata No. 11
- Mozart Sonata no. 16 in C Major K. 545
- Mozart Sonata no. 16 K. 545
- Mozart Sonata No. 5 K. 283
- Mozart Sonata no. 9 in D K. 311
- Mozart Sonatas
- Mozart String Quartet K. 387
- Mr. York
- Mrs. Elston
- MTAC
- MTAC Baroque Festival
- MTAC State Convention
- MTAC.org
- Munger Hall Meridian Music Center
- Munich Philharmonic
- Murray Perahia
- Murray Perahia concert
- Murray Perahia masterclass
- Murray Perahia pianist
- Murray Perahia piano recital
- Murray Perahia plays Chopin
- Murray Perahia poet of the piano
- muscular memory
- music
- music and heart
- music and photography
- music and photos
- music and the breath
- music appreciation classes
- music criticism
- music critics
- music editor of the New York Times
- music education
- music education for young children
- music history
- music in churches
- music in Jewish temples
- music in religious services
- music in synagogues
- music memorization
- music sharing by Skype
- Music soothes the savage breast
- music study and ripening
- music teachers association
- music teachers association of california
- music teachers associationo of California
- Music Teachers Asssociation of California
- music theory
- music therapy
- Music Together
- music video
- music with bird themes
- Music Works on San Pablo in El Cerrito
- musical cat
- musical inspiration
- musical phrasing
- musical phrasing and breathing
- musician birthdays
- musicology
- Musictogether.com
- Muzio Clementi
- My Music Life Blog spot
- my piano-finding adventures with Connell York
- my space
- Myra Hess
- N.Y.
- Nairi Grigorian Akimov
- NAMM
- Nareh Arghamanyan
- Nastia Liukin
- Natalie Hinderas
- Natalie Jacobs
- Natalie Wood
- National Geographic
- nature and music
- nature montage with music
- Navona Records
- Naxos
- Nayelli
- NDR Documentary on Arthur Rubinstein
- NDR Documentary on Artur Rubinstein
- NEC
- Needle Park
- Neil Simon
- neurosis
- New Doll by Tchaikovsky op. 39
- New England Conservatory
- new piano
- New Year greetings
- New York
- New York City
- New York City High School of Performing Arts
- New York City versus Berkeley
- New York State Employment Service
- New York Steinway hammers
- New York Times
- New York Times arts editor
- New York Times.com
- New York University
- Newton Connecticut
- Nikolai Lugansky
- Nikolas Sideris
- no. 1
- no. 11 K. 331
- No. 2
- No.2
- Nobel Prize in Stockholm
- non-legato
- Nordiska
- Norman Rockwell
- North Berkeley CA
- North Carolina
- Northwest Bronx
- Northwest Fresno
- Not of this World a documentary about Murray Perahia
- Ny Steinway vintage piano
- NY Times arts editor
- NYC
- NYC High School of Performing Arts
- Oakland California
- Oberlin
- Oberlin alumni
- Oberlin alumni literary gathering in Berkeley CA
- Oberlin Conservatory
- Oberlin Conservatory, New York City High School of Performing Arts
- Off Broadway Theater
- Offenbach
- Okinawa
- old disposable pianos
- Old Fig Garden in Fresno
- old upright
- On Stage KT7800 Plus Padded Keyboard Bench
- online piano instruction
- Online piano lessons
- online piano lessons
- online piano lessons by web cam
- Online piano recital
- Online private piano instruction
- Oompa-Loompa doopadee-doo
- Op. 100 Twenty-five Progressive Pieces
- Op. 39 Children's Pieces by Kabalevsky
- Op. posthumous
- Open Fine Art Gallery on Solano in Berkeley CA
- opera
- opera singers
- operatic trills
- Orange County High School of the Arts
- Orff Schulwerk
- ornaments
- Ornaments in the Baroque
- Oscar Levant
- Osmo Vänskä.
- Oso De Oro Lake Park
- Out of the Closet Thrift Store
- Out of Tune Piano Blues by James Boyk
- overscheduled piano students
- overuse injury and piano playing
- P.S. 122 in the Bronx
- P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village
- Pacific Citizen
- Paderewski
- painist
- palying instruments besides the piano
- Pamela Sverjensky Director Levine School of Music Washington D.C.
- Panic in Needle Park with Al Pacino
- parallel octaves in legato at the piano
- Park Terrace Gardens in Inwood
- Pascal Vieillard
- Patelson's
- Patelson's music shop
- patience
- patient practicing
- Patricia Frederick
- Patrick Schmidt clay artist
- Paul Buscaino piano seller and technician
- Paul Robeson
- pay to learn
- paying students to practice piano
- Peabody Conservatory
- Peabody Institute of Music
- Pearl Harbor
- pedaling
- pedaling at the piano
- pedaling on the piano
- pentachords
- pentascales
- pentatonic song
- percussionist
- perfect pitch
- perfect pitch and piano study
- perfect pitch and tone languages
- performance anxiety
- Pete Seeger
- Peter Feuchtwanger
- Peter Friis Johansson
- Peter Illyich Tchaikovksy
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Peter Paul and Mary
- Peter Seidenberg
- Peter Wolf
- Phil Bronstein
- Philip Lorenz
- Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concerts
- Philipp Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concerts
- philosophy of eduction
- photo
- photo of piano room in Fresno California
- photos
- phrasing at the piano
- phsyical fitness at the piano
- Phyllis Chen
- physical fitness and piano playing
- physical fitness at the piano
- physical fitness routines
- pian instruction
- pianist
- pianist Beatriz Boizan
- pianists
- pianists and injuries
- pianists and overuse injury
- pianists as collaborator
- pianists with big hands
- pianists with little hands
- piano
- piano accouterment
- piano addcit
- piano addict
- piano addict.com
- Piano Adventures Primer Lesson Book
- piano arpeggios
- piano arpeggios in inversions
- piano arrangement
- piano arrangements
- piano auction
- piano bargains
- piano bench
- piano blog
- piano blog by Shirley Kirsten
- piano blog, piano blogging
- piano blogger
- piano blogging
- piano blogs
- piano buyer
- piano buyers
- piano competition
- piano competitions
- piano documentary
- piano drop-outs
- piano finding
- piano finding adventure
- piano for sale
- piano forums
- piano instrruction
- piano instruction
- piano instruction by Skype
- piano instruction for adult students
- piano instruction Gershwin Prelude no. 2
- piano instruction Mozart alla turca
- Piano instruction Mozart Minuet in FK. 2
- piano instruction William Gillock Flamenco
- piano instructional videos
- piano instructor
- piano instuction
- piano keyboard
- piano learning
- piano lesson
- piano lesson by Face Time
- piano lesson by Skype
- piano lesson dropouts
- piano lesson termination
- piano lessons
- piano lessons and business practices
- piano lessons and parental support
- piano lessons by Face Time
- piano lessons by Facetime
- piano lessons by Skype
- piano lessons by web cam
- piano lessons competing with sports
- piano lessons for adults
- piano lessons in Berkeley California
- piano lessons in El Cerrito California
- piano lessons on the web
- piano lessson
- piano maintenance
- piano maintenance and repair
- piano maintenance in small communities
- piano masterclass
- piano masterclasses
- piano methods
- piano movers
- piano moving
- piano music and photos
- piano music in the Romantic genre
- piano pedagogoy
- piano pedagogy
- piano playing
- piano playing and breathing
- piano playing and phrasing
- piano playing and relaxation
- piano playing and the singing tone
- piano practicing
- piano practicing motivators
- piano practicing Sonata Pathetique Op. 13 No. 8
- piano practicing with use of a camcorder
- piano purchase
- piano rack extender
- piano recital
- piano recital by Skype
- piano recital rehearsal
- piano recitals with themes
- piano regulation
- piano related comedy
- piano repair
- piano repertoire
- piano repertoire for intermediate level students
- piano repertoire review
- piano restoration
- piano restorers
- piano room
- piano sale
- piano sales
- piano scales
- piano scales and arpeggios
- piano seller
- piano sellers
- piano shopping
- piano showroom
- piano society
- piano sonata
- piano sonatas
- Piano Stories by Nikolas Sideris
- Piano Street
- piano student
- piano students
- piano students and sports conflicts
- piano students and the imagination
- piano students as composers
- piano students who drop out
- piano studio
- piano studio in El Cerrito
- piano study
- piano study and aging
- piano study and perfect pitch
- piano teacher
- piano teacher and student relationships
- piano teacher nearly falls asleep
- piano teachers
- piano teaching
- piano teaching and business practices
- piano teaching and composing
- piano teaching by skype
- piano teaching forums
- piano teaching philosophy
- piano teaching piano instruction
- piano teaching repertoire
- piano techique
- piano technician
- Piano Technician's Guil
- piano technician's guild
- piano technique
- piano technique and breathing
- piano technique and Kabalevsky
- piano technique and the singing tone
- piano technology
- piano tone production
- piano transcription
- piano transcriptions
- piano trills
- piano tuner
- piano tuners
- piano tuning
- piano tutorial
- piano virtuosos
- piano voicing
- piano warm-ups
- Piano World
- piano world-wide
- piano worldwide
- piano,
- piano, piano teaching, piano playing
- pianoaddict.com
- pianoforte
- pianoman products
- Pianomania!
- pianorama
- pianos
- pianos and climate control
- pianos at the Discovery Store American Cancer Society
- pianos lessons
- Pianostreet.com
- pianoworld
- pianoworld.com
- pianoworldwide
- picking a piano for a concert
- Pierce Piano Atlas
- Pierre Monteux
- ping pong
- ping pong balls
- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- plane restoration
- planes
- player piano
- playing a C# minor arpeggio
- playing Bach on the modern-day piano
- playing Bach with pedal
- playing Bach without pedal
- playing Brandenburg concerto no. 5
- playing chords at the piano
- playing Domenico Scarlatti sonatas on the piano
- playing duets at the piano
- playing five-finger positions
- playing legato at the piano
- playing legato to staccato at the piano
- playing parallel octaves
- playing pentascales
- playing piano
- playing piano with crossed hands
- playing piano with expression
- playing repeated notes on the piano
- playing scales
- playing scales in staccato
- playing staccato
- playing staccato at the piano
- playing the piano
- playing the piano with a singing tone
- playing the piano with long nails
- playing the violin
- playing two musical instruments
- Pleyel
- Poland
- Ponies by Joseph Low
- poor piano maintenance in Fresno
- popular music
- popular repertoire for piano
- portrait of a piano room
- Poulenc Gloria
- Pour Les Enfants
- POWHOW
- POWHOW instruction
- POWHOW piano instruction
- POWHOW webcam online piano class
- POWHOW.com
- practicing a Bb Major arpeggio on the piano
- practicing a piece in 7 different emotions
- practicing arpeggios
- practicing Beethoven's Tempest sonata movement one
- practicing difficult passages in Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique op. 13
- practicing difficult piano passages
- practicing fast passage at the piano
- practicing new piano music
- practicing piano
- practicing piano in slow motion
- practicing piano in slow tempo
- practicing piano passages with rhythms
- practicing piano with relaxation
- practicing scales
- practicing scales and arpeggios
- practicing scales for piano
- practicing the left hand at the piano
- practicing the piano
- Prelude in A minor by J.C. Bach
- Preludes and Fugues
- preparing piano students for a recital
- Pressler Masterclasses
- presto agitato from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
- Pride and Prejudice
- primer piano books
- private party marketplace of pianos
- private party piano sale
- private party piano sale
- problems with camcorder and video editing
- problems with maintenance of fine pianos
- producing a singing tone at the piano
- producing a singing tone legato at the piano
- Prokofief "March"
- Prokofiev
- Proksch piano
- psychiatrist
- psychiatry
- PTG
- public school 122
- publishers marketplace
- publishersmarketplace
- publishersmarketplace.com
- pyrotechnical exercises
- quality piano practicing
- Quantz
- Rachmaninoff
- Rada Bukhman
- Rada Lupu
- Rafael de Silva
- Ralph Cato
- Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Randall and Nancy Faber
- Randall Faber
- Randall Faber Developing Artist series
- rap music
- rap video
- Raphael de Silva
- rats
- Ravel Piano Concerto
- Ravel Piano Concerto for the left hand
- Ravel Quartet in g minor
- Ravel String Quartet in F Major
- reading tools
- Rebecca Rust
- Rebecca Rust-Edelmann
- rebuilding pianos
- rebuilding Steinway grand pianos
- rebuilt pianos
- recorded piano lesson videos
- recording
- recording Bach in an apartment
- recording engineer
- recording in an apartment
- recording period instruments
- recording piano performance for self assessment
- recording with cricket chirps
- Registered piano technician
- regulating a piano
- relaxed arms in piano playing
- Renee Fleming
- Renner piano hammers
- repeated notes
- repertoire
- repertoire for piano students
- restored pianos
- resuming piano lessons after the summer
- Reva Cooper
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
- Rhythmical practicing
- Richard Goode
- Richard Hyung-Ki Joo
- Rider University
- Rimsky-Korsakov
- Rina
- Rina 4 takes piano lessons
- Rina takes piano lessons
- Riverdale California
- Riverside Community College
- roaches
- Robert De Gaetano
- Robert Furst
- Robert Krulwich
- Robert Krulwich Radio Lab
- Robert Schumann
- Robert Zubrycki
- Rockford Illinois
- Rodin the Thinker
- Roger Ebert
- Roland digital
- Roland digital piano
- RolandF110
- rolling forward wrist motions in piano playing
- Romantic era
- Romantic era music
- Romantic era piano music
- Romantic era piano repertoire
- Romantic music
- Rondo Allegretto K. 545 by Mozart
- Rondo form
- Roselle Kemalyan
- roses
- Rosh Hashanah
- Rosina Lhevinne
- Rosina Lhevinne's 80th birthday concert
- rotation in piano playing
- rotation in piano practicing
- Russell Kassman
- Russell Sherman
- Russia
- Russian bubbes
- Russian pianist
- Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin
- Russian piano teacher
- Russian virtuoso pianist
- Ruth Hurwitz
- Ruth Kleinman
- Ruth Rubin
- Ryan Leslie
- Saint-Saens The Lion from Carnival of the Animals
- salas violist
- Sam Bennett
- Sam Torcaso
- samoors
- Samuel Gardner
- Samuel Maykapar
- San Francisco
- San Francisco Botanical Garden
- San Francisco Botanical Gardens
- San Francisco Classical Voice
- San Francisco Davies Hall
- San Francisco Munich Trio
- San Francisco Symphony
- Sandy Hamilton owner La SCAT club in Harlem
- Sandy Hook Elementary School
- Santa Monica
- Santiago Rodriguez
- Sara Faust
- satire
- Saturday Evening Post
- scale
- scale fingerings
- scale practice
- scales
- scales and arpeggios
- scales and arpeggios at the piano
- scales for the piano
- Scarlatti
- Scarlatti Pastorale in D K. 415
- Scarlatti Sonata in A
- Scarlatti Sonata in C Major K. 159
- Scarlatti Sonata in D Major L. 14
- Scarlatti sonata in G K. 431
- Scarlatti Sonata K. 113 in A Major
- Scarlatti Sonata K. 96 in D
- Scarlatti Sonatas
- Scarlatti Toccata in d minor k. 141
- Scenes from Childhood
- Scenes of Childhood
- scheduling piano recitals
- Schirmer's
- Schmitt exercises
- Schoenhut piano
- Schubert
- schubert Impromptu in Eb Op. 90
- Schubert Impromptu Op 90 in Eb
- Schubert Impromptus
- Schumann
- Schumann Album for the Young
- Schumann Arabesque
- Schumann Arabesque Op. 18
- Schumann Caraval
- Schumann Carnaval op. 9
- Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien
- Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Intermezzo
- Schumann Kinderszenen
- Schumann New Journal of Music
- Schumann's Album for the Young
- Schumann’s “Faschingsschwank aus Wien”
- Scientific American
- Scriabin
- Seagate
- Segerstom in Southern California
- selected a used piano
- self hypnosis
- self-analysis
- self-promotion
- selling a Steinway piano
- selling pianos
- Seminar by Sam Gold
- separate hand piano practicing
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Setsuko Nagata
- setting a good piano fingering
- Seymour Bernstein
- Seymour Bernstein author Monsters and Angels
- Seymour Bernstein author With Your Own Two Hands
- Seymour Bernstein composer
- Seymour Bernstein pianist
- Seymour Bernstein With Your Own Two Hands
- Seymour: An Introduction
- Sf Writers group
- Sheep May Safely Graze
- Shirley Kirsten
- Shirley Kirsten and Scarlatti
- Shirley Kirsten blog
- Shirley Kirsten certified piano instructor at POWHOW
- Shirley Kirsten on POWHOW
- shirley kirsten on POWHOW webcam piano class
- shirley kirsten pianist
- shirley kirsten piano teacher B
- shirley kirsten piano teacher in El Cerrito
- Shirley Kirsten teaches classes at POWHOW
- Shirley Kisten
- shirley s kirsten
- shirley smith
- Shirley Smith Kirsten
- shirley smith kirsten blog
- Shirley Smth Kirsten
- shirleyu smith kirsten
- Sholom Aleichem
- Shriley Kirsten piano teacher El Cerrito California
- Shura Cherkassky
- Shut up and Write Meet-up
- sight-reading and piano playing
- sight-reading at the piano
- sight-singing
- sight-singing
- sightreading at the piano
- sigtht-singing
- silent era movies
- silent movie accompanist
- silent movies
- Sing for Hope
- singing tone legato
- six degrees of separation
- six degrees of separation in the music world
- Skype
- Skype a piano lesson to Australia
- skype piano lesson
- Skype piano lesson to Greece
- Skype piano lessons
- Skype piano recital
- Skype preferences
- Skyped piano lesson to Greece
- skyped piano lessons
- Skyping piano lessons
- slow mindful practicing
- slow piano practicing
- small claims court
- Smith Noble blinds
- smoothing out piano technique
- snowboard
- snowboarding
- social networking
- Sohmer upright
- Sohmer upright piano
- Sokolov at Theatre des Champs Elysees 2002
- Solano Avenue in Berkeley California
- Solano Oriental Rug Gallery
- solfeggio
- Sonata
- Sonata in
- Sonata in A Major K. 331
- Sonata in A Major K. 331 by Mozart
- Sonata in C K. 545 by Mozart
- Sonata in G K. 283
- Sonata Pathetique first movement by Beethoven
- sonatas
- sonatina
- sonatina by Latour
- sonatina for piano
- Sonatina in C Op. 36 no. 3 by Clementi
- Sonatina no. 1 by Latour
- Song of the Lark by Tchaikovsky
- Songs of Praise"
- Songs without Words
- Sony Camcorder
- Sony recording
- sound and video track problems
- soundboard steel
- South Bronx
- South Carolina
- South Jersey
- spammers
- spammers at my blogsite at Word Press
- spamming at Word Press
- sparring partner
- Special music school in Manhattan
- Special Music School Kaufman Center
- sports
- sports and piano
- sports metaphors in piano teaching
- squeaky piano pedal repair
- staccato
- staccato playing
- staccato scales
- Stagg hydraulic piano bench
- Stained glass
- Stan Jacobs
- stealing piano students
- Stefan Kupfer
- Steinway
- Steinway 1098
- Steinway A grand piano
- Steinway and Sons
- Steinway and Sons pianos
- Steinway B
- Steinway console
- Steinway grand
- Steinway grand piano
- Steinway grand piano in Fresno California
- Steinway M
- Steinway M grand
- Steinway M grand piano
- Steinway model 1098 for sale
- Steinway model 1098 upright piano
- Steinway O grand piano
- Steinway piano
- Steinway piano factory in Long Island
- Steinway Piano Gallery
- Steinway piano model 1098
- Steinway pianos
- Steinway studio upright
- Steinway upright model 1098
- Steinway upright piano model 1098
- Steinway vintage pianos
- Stephen Hough
- Steven Isserlis
- stories from the Yiddish culture
- strategies for practicing scales
- string instrument repair
- string player
- stuck in a rut
- studying piano
- studying the piano and another musical instrument
- studying violin
- styles of piano teaching
- summary piano videos
- summer arts camp
- summer music camp
- summer piano lessons
- summer piano study
- Superbowl fever
- Superbowl mania
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- supple wrist in piano playing
- supple wrist motion
- Suzuki
- Suzuki piano instruction
- Suzuki piano method
- suzuki piano teaching
- suzuki violin method
- Sviatoslav Richter
- swindle
- swinging arms in playing piano
- swtiching piano parts in a collaboration
- Sydney Australia
- taeching piano by Skype
- Taekwando
- taking a walk in El Cerrito
- Tales of Hoffman
- talkclassical.com
- Tanglewood
- Tanglewood Music Festival
- Tatiana Nikolayeva
- Tatiana Nikolayeva teacher of Nikolai Lugansky
- Taubman piano method
- Taylor Swift
- tch15.medici.15
- Tchaikovsky
- Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition
- Tchaikovsky Piano Competition
- Teach Street
- teaching a piano student about melody
- teaching adult piano students
- teaching adult students
- teaching adults
- teaching an adult student
- teaching Bach Inventions
- Teaching Bach two part inventions
- teaching Beethoven Fur Elise
- teaching Domenico Scarlatti
- teaching Fur Elise
- teaching piano
- teaching piano online
- teaching piano scales
- teaching piano to adult students
- teaching piano to adults
- teaching piano to children
- teaching piano to teenagers
- teaching piano to teens
- teaching piano to young children
- teaching rhythm
- teaching Rina piano
- teaching scales
- teaching the Schumann Arabesque Op. 18
- teaching the works of Domenico Scarlatti
- teachinig piano to young children
- teacing piano to children
- technique
- teen dropouts from piano
- teenagers
- Teh 14th International Van Cliburn Piano Competition
- Temple University
- tempo rubato
- Tender Flower by Burgmuller
- Tender Flower by Friedrich Burgmuller
- tennis
- Terry Barrett
- Terry Barrett piano technician
- testing for buzzes in a piano
- The art of phrasing at the piano
- the art of piano pedaling
- the art of piano playing
- The Audubon Society
- The Bad News Bears
- The Beatles
- The Beaux Arts Trio of New York
- The Berkeley Rose Garden
- the Big Apple
- The Boston Globe
- the breath and phrasing in piano playing
- the Bronx
- The classical era sonatina
- the Crystal Cathdral
- the Crystal cathedral
- The devil in music
- The East Bay California
- The El Cerrito Hills
- The Enigma – Bruno Monsaingeon -1998- Parts I and 2
- The Essence of the Russian School of Piano Playing
- the first piano lesson with a new student
- the form of a Bach Invention
- The Frederick Collection
- The Gift of Music about Evgeny Kissin
- the Hudson River at the tip of Manhattan
- The Hunting Call by Gurlitt
- the ideal adult piano student
- the ideal piano lesson
- The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey
- The Last Three Beethoven sonatas played by Beth Levin
- The Legacy Of Rosina Lhevinne: A Portrait Of The Legendary Pianist
- The Lion from Carnival of the Animals
- The Manhattan School of Music
- The Marble Hill Projects
- The Meux Home
- the music of George Gershwin
- The Musical Offering Cafe
- The Musical Offering Cafe in Berkeley
- the natural minor scale
- the neighborhood piano teacher
- The New York Times
- The New York Times music page
- The Nutcracker Suite
- The Out of Towners with Jack Lemmon and Sandi Dennis
- the perils of visiting NYC
- The Piano Book
- The Piano Book by Larry Fine
- the piano learning process
- the playground as music teacher
- The Playground as Music Teacher by Madeleine Carabo-Cone
- the playground as piano teacher
- The Queen's Chamber Band
- The Queen's Chamber Band plays Mozart
- the right age to begin piano lessons
- The Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv
- The Russian School of Piano Playing
- The Russian singing tone school of piano teaching
- The San Joaquin Amtrak 712
- The Silent Monks
- the singing tone in piano playing
- The Special Music School
- The Special Music School Kaufman Center
- The Special Music School of Kaufman Center
- The Special Music School/Kaufman Center
- The Superbowl
- The supple wrist in piano playing
- The Tanglewood Music Festival
- the thumb in piano playing
- the thumbs in piano playing
- the transfer piano student
- the undulating wrist
- the undulating wrist in piano playing
- the vocal model for pianists
- The Weavers
- The Well Tempered Clavier
- Theodor Leschetizky
- Theodore Latour
- Theodore Leschitizky
- Theory
- Theory and piano lessons
- third variation Mozart Sonata in A Major K. 331
- thumb shifts
- Tibetan terrier
- Tilden Regional Park in Berkeley CA
- Tim Janof
- Time to Begin
- Timothy Gallwey
- Toby Appel
- Toby Appel
- Toby Appel violist
- tone production at the piano
- Tony Levine
- Top Notch Tone Class on POWHOW
- toy pianos
- traditional piano teaching
- tragedy at Sandy Hook elementary school
- transposing music
- trash
- trash videos on the computer
- Traumerei
- trills
- trills in Mozart arias
- tritone
- Tschaikovsky
- Tschaikovsky Album for the Young
- Tschaikovsky Piano concerto in Bb minor
- tube stretch
- Tulare and R Street
- tutorial
- TV sitcom
- Twenty five Progressive pieces by Burgmuller
- Twenty-five Progressive Pieces Op. 100
- Two -part Inventions
- two part inventions by Bach
- Two-part Inventions
- UC Berkeley chamber and university chorus
- Uchida pianist
- uk-piano-forums
- ukeleles sold at Music Works
- Uncategorized
- undulating wrist in piano playing
- unfriending on Facebook
- union organizer
- Unitarian Universalist Church in Kensington CA
- Universalist Unitarian Church in Kensington CA
- University of California Irvine
- University of Maryland
- upload
- upright Steinway
- Urtext
- US Army
- used piano
- used piano market
- used pianos
- using Windex to clean ivory keys
- UUCB in Kensington
- Valley Music Center
- Valley Music Center in Fresno
- Valley Music Center in Fresno California
- Van Cliburn
- Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
- Van Cliburn piano competition
- Variation 2 Mozart Sonata in A Major K. 331
- velocity in piano playing
- Verdi Square
- Verdi Square in NYC
- Veronica Salas
- veterans
- veterans housing
- vets
- Victor Thasiah
- video editing
- video editing on iMovie
- video editing with Sony Vegas software
- video exchanges with skype piano students
- video instruction
- video montage
- video performances
- video piano instruction
- video supplementation of piano lessons
- video supplementation to lessons
- video uploading
- videotaped instruction
- videotaped piano instruction
- videotaped replay
- videotaping a piano performance and self analysis
- videotaping at piano lessons
- videotaping piano lessons
- Vilna
- vintage violin
- viola playing
- violin
- violin making
- violin making and repair
- violin restoration
- violinist
- virtual piano lessons
- virtual piano teaching
- virtuoso pianists
- Visalia California
- Visalia Piano Gallery
- visit to NYC
- visiting the Big Apple
- Vitalij Margulies
- Vitalij Margulis
- Vitaly Margulis
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Vladimir Malakhov
- vocal model for piano playing
- vocal performances
- voicing a piano
- voicing pianos
- Volodya
- W. A. Mozart
- W.A. Mozart
- walk to El Cerrito piano studio
- Walnut Creek
- Walnut Hill School for the Arts
- Waltz
- Waltzing Matilda
- Wave Hill
- We are Siamese from Lady and the Tramp
- web casting piano lessons
- webcam piano lessons
- webcam views during FaceTime lessons
- webcam views during Skype lessons
- Weber piano
- Weber upright piano
- Weill Concert Hall
- Well Tempered Clavier
- Well-Tempered Clavier
- West San Ramon Fresno
- West Side Story
- West Village of New York
- Westminster Conservatory of Music in Princeton New Jersey
- Wha Kyung Byun
- What pianists can learn from string players
- When Your Song Breaks the Silence
- whole body listening
- whole body music listening
- why study music
- Wieser upright piano
- Wild Rider by Schumann
- wild turkeys in El Cerrito California
- William Gillock
- William Gillock Flamenco
- William Schuman
- Willie Mays
- willy wonka and the chocolate factory
- wine and liquor shop
- wiordpress.com
- With My Own Two Hands by Seymour Bernstein
- With your own Two Hands by Seymour Bernstein
- Wlat Disney
- Wolf Sound Studio
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Woody Allen
- Woody Allen movies and Dick Hyman
- word press
- word press.com
- wordpress
- wordpress blog
- wordpress.com
- wordpresss.com
- World Piano Competition in Cincinnati
- World War II
- worst nightmare
- worst piano teacher
- WQXR FM
- writing and sound
- Wurlitzer piano
- WW II veterans
- XV International Tchaikovsky Competition from Moscow
- XV Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition
- Yamah Arius 141 digital piano
- Yamaha Arius 141
- Yamaha Arius YDP 141
- Yamaha Arius YDP141
- Yamaha Clavinova
- Yamaha digital pianost
- Yamaha Disclavier
- Yamaha Disklavier
- Yamaha P-115
- Yamaha P-22
- Yamaha piano
- Yeol Eum Son
- Yeti mic
- Yeti microphone
- Yevgeny Sudbin
- Yiddish
- Yiddish families
- Yiddish family folklore
- yiddish folk song
- Yiddish Folk Song Tradition
- Yiddish folklore
- Yiddish melodies
- Yiddish Songs
- Yiddish Theater
- Yokohama
- Yom Kippur
- York
- You and the Piano Seymour Bernstein
- You and the PIano Seymour Bernstein on You Tube
- you tube
- You Tube Cantata no. 78 performed at the First Moravian Church in New York City
- You Tube interview with Lugansky from Israel
- you tube piano performance favorites
- you tube video
- you tube.com
- yout tube
- youtube
- youtube.com
- Yuja Wang
- zayde
- Zellerbach Hall
- Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley
- Zellerbach in Berkeley California
- Zen and the Art of Archery
- Zero Mostel
Meta
Tag Archives: music
The Benefits of Piano Lessons for the Aging student
Despite the raging battle on Capitol Hill over health care legislation that threatened the loss of insurance to millions if enacted, a particularly vulnerable population of SENIORS engaged in music study, found sanctuary in a daily connection to the piano. … Continue reading
Posted in piano, piano study and aging
Tagged adult piano instruction, aging and creativity, Berkeley, Berkeley CA, blog metrics, blogmetrics, blogmetrics.org, Journal of a Piano Teacher from New York to California, Kentucky, music, music and Alzheimer's, music-making, Musicophelia, Oliver Sachs, pianist, piano, piano addict, piano blog, piano blogging, piano instruction, piano lessons, piano pedagogy, piano street, piano study and aging, piano study and memory, piano teaching, Piano World, retirement and piano study, Shirley Kirsten, Shirley Smith Kirsten, the aging process, Word Press, Wordpress, wordpress.com, You Tube, youtube.com
4 Comments
Murray Perahia’s earliest piano teacher and her influence on him
Jeannette Haien is rarely recognized for her role in Murray Perahia’s musical development, though it’s clear through her own words, (rekindled posthumously) that she must have had a profound effect on him. (She was Perahia’s mentor from age 4 to … Continue reading
Posted in Jeannette Haien, Murray Perahia
Tagged analysis, Arthur Schnabel, blog metrics, blogmetrics, blogmetrics.org, Classical music blog, form, French Suite, French Suites, J.S. Bach, J.S. Bach French Suites, Jeannette Haien, Johann Sebastian Bach, Journal of a Piano Teacher from New York to California, Murray Perahia, music, musical analysis, musical form, musical structure, New York City High School of Performing Arts, P.A., Perahia, piano, piano addict, piano blog, piano blogging, piano instruction, piano street, piano teaching, Piano World, singing tone, Word Press, You Tube, youtube.com
2 Comments
Why is practicing slowly so unpopular?
There appears to be a stigma attached to parceling out a brand new piece in deliberately slow tempo, where a player threads through separate lines with a commitment to expression framed by an ultra-relaxed singing pulse. In the best realization … Continue reading
Posted in piano, piano blog, piano instruction, piano lessons, piano practicing, piano teaching, slow piano practicing
Tagged blog metrics, blogmetrics, blogmetrics.org, BWV 862, classissima, classissima.com, J.S. Bach, J.S. Bach Prelude in Ab, Journal of a Piano Teacher from New York to California, music, music lessons, piano, piano addict, piano blog, piano blogging, piano instruction, piano learning, piano pedagogy, piano practicing, piano street, piano teaching, Piano World, Shirley Kirsten, Shirley Smith Kirsten, slow piano practicing, the merits of slow piano practicing, Well Tempered Clavier
11 Comments
Chopin’s Fantasie-Impromptu rises above Facebook etiquette
This morning I was greeted by a Timeline addition to my Facebook page that was worrisome. The header was, “Is this your student?” It framed a precociously youthful performance of the Fantasie-Impromptu that was at best hammered out and musically … Continue reading
Posted in Chopin, Cyprien Katsaris, Fantasie-Impromptu, Frederic Chopin, piano instruction, piano teaching
Tagged blog metrics, blogmetrics, blogmetrics.org, Chopin, Cyprien Katsaris, Fantasie-Impromptu, Frederic Chopin, Frederic Chopin Fantasie-Impromptu, Journal of a Piano Teacher from New York to Calfornia, masterclass, music, music lessons, pianist, piano, piano addict, piano instruction, piano learning, piano street, Piano World, Shirley Kirsten, Shirley Smith Kirsten, Word Press, wordpress.com, You Tube, you tube.com
5 Comments
Two San Francisco musical attractions: Pianist, Trifonov and a Chinese Harpist
Within 48 hours, high-level music-making was heard in vastly different venues. Louise Davies Hall with its golden hue of lights and balconies provided a stunning backdrop for Daniil Trifonov’s heart-throbbing performance of Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 under the baton of … Continue reading
Posted in blogmetrics, Chinese harp, Chopin, Chopin Concerto in F minor, Chopin Concerto no. 2, Daniil Trifonov, Erhu, Frederic Chopin, Guzheng, Journal of a Piano Teacher from New York to California, pianist, piano, piano blog, piano blogging, pianoforte, San Francisco Symphony, Shirley Kirsten, word press, you tube
Tagged ancient Chinese instrument, Ancient Chinese instruments, blogging, blogmetrics, blogmetrics.org, California, China, Chinese, Chinese Harp, Chopin, Chopin Piano Concerto in F minor, Chopin Piano Concerto no. 2, classissima, classissima.com, Daniil Trifonov, Erhu, Frederic Chopin, Guzheng, Journal of a Piano Teacher from New York to California, Louise Davies concert hall, Michael Tilson Thomas, music, pianist, piano, piano addict, piano blog, piano blogging, piano street, Piano World, San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Shirley Kirsten, Shirley Smith Kirsten, Trifonov, Word Press, wordpress.com, You Tube, youtube.com
5 Comments
The Jewish New Year ushers in poignant musical memories
We sometimes think of our childhood in musical terms. Seymour Bernstein mentions hearing Schubert’s Standchen that brought him to tears. Otherwise his home was bereft of music, let alone the time-honored Classics. It was mostly silent. I was bathed in … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish New Year, music, piano blog, piano blogging, Ruth Rubin, Shirley Kirsten, Yiddish Songs, Yiddish Theater
Tagged arioso 7, classissima, classissima.com, Jan Peerce, Jewish New Year, Journal of a Piano Teacher from New York to Calfornia, Kol Nidre, music, Perry Como, piano, piano addict, piano blog, piano blogging, piano street, Piano World, Richard Tucker, Rosh Hashanah, Shirley Kirsten, Shirley Smith Kirsten, Word Press, wordpress.com, Yiddish folklore, Yiddish music, Yiddish tradition, You Tube, youtube.com
7 Comments
