Anyone who has made it to grade four or five on the piano will, almost certainly, have encountered a piece by Chopin. Certainly, no compilation of “classics for beginners” is complete without his E minor Prelude. It’s got everything the fledgling pianist needs to feel good about their technique: it’s short, it’s in a gratifyingly slow speed and it has a [...]
Read more >>>Imagine this: you drop onto the sofa on a Sunday afternoon, switch on the TV and see a dapper young man with a baton standing before an orchestra and demonstrating the patterns conductors use to lead music in different meters — two, three, four and five beats to the bar. He directs his players in a few examples, bits of Beethoven’s [...]
Read more >>>Louis Armstrong, a k a Satchmo, a k a Pops, was to music what Picasso was to painting, what Joyce was to fiction: an innovator who changed the face of his art form, a fecund and endlessly inventive pioneer whose discovery of his own voice helped remake 20th-century culture. http://bit.ly/6ptQc9
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Read more >>>Les Paul had been the quintessential “Guitar Man” long before the rock group Bread recorded a song of the same name.
The 1972 hit wasn’t about Les, but it could have been. Besides being a virtuoso musician who performed with some of early pop’s biggest stars, Lester William Polsfuss, who died August 13 at 94, [...]
Read more >>>Sirena Huang is now 12 years old; she probably loves what all 12 year old girls love: talking with her friends, school, books…but she is also a world-renowned concert violinist. Sirena began violin lessons at the age of 4 and made her professional debut with the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra at the ripe old age of [...]
Read more >>>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a highly regarded composer of music during the Classical era…and that is simplifying his contributions greatly. With over 600 compositions, Mozart is one of the most enduring and popular composers ever, and many of his works are still played worldwide today.
Baptized Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, he was born on January [...]
Michael Bitz, an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University, recently won a national competition with his idea of helping students learn academic subjects while creating their own record labels. Mr. Bitz will now attempt to bring his ideas to schools across the country as the first recipient of the fellowship awarded by Mind Trust, an [...]
Read more >>>“Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.” ~ Jim Henson, television producer and puppeteer
Did you know that March is National Music in Our Schools Month? It began as a single statewide celebration [...]
The beauty of the sounds coming from the piano played by Miss Jennifer Lin is magical. Jennifer was 14-years old in this video, and she speaks of how she is able to compose music in her mind and play it instantly…this is profoundly amazing! Jennifer has been Oprah and ABC World News Tonight and her [...]
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