After the post about my upcoming Christmas recital, several of you left comments or sent e-mails asking what equipment was necessary in order to live stream a recital. This will be my first time experimenting with this, but from what I can gather here’s what I’ll need: A USTREAM account. Laptop computer with access to […]
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Group Class Focuses on Performance
It’s been a while since I posted pictures, so I figured it was about time! The Thursday before Thanksgiving week, we held our third studio group class. We have four main areas we’re focusing on this year, and each group class highlights one of them. This one focused on performance. We started out with a […]
Review and Giveaway of American Portraits Piano Book by Wendy Stevens
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is an audio clip worth? In a departure from my typical process of reviewing new materials, I thought it would be cool to give you samplings of the actual music rather than mere words attempting to describe the music. In fact, didn’t some great musician say […]
Monday Mailbag – Who Pays for New Student Music?
When you get $200+ worth of new music for your students, do you then have them purchase each one or how do you do that? At this point, I purchase all the new music for my students. Several years ago, I instituted a registration fee of $50 that is due by the 1st of August […]
And the Winner Is…
#8! Hannah is the winner of the Showers of Blessing piano arrangement book by Jenifer Cook! I hope the rest of you have an opportunity to enjoy Jenifer’s work as well. Stay tuned for another great giveaway next Tuesday… 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
This week I’m not teaching, so I decided to take the week off of blogging as well (in celebration of Thanksgiving and my birthday – which happens to be on Thanksgiving this year! :-)). I’ve also got a couple of speaking engagements this week and will be working on plans for our upcoming Christmas recital. […]
