[I know some of you have been following along via my Journey to Self-Publishing blog, but for those who haven’t, I figured I would post this announcement here. And then you’ll know why things have been so quiet here on this blog this week!] After many hours of writing, researching, praying, and collaborating with friends […]
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This Week in Photos
Whack It! This was Emily’s third week of lessons and we were drilling the names of the keys on the piano. She really struggled with this last week, so I had come up with this Whack It! game to play during her lesson. However, she had worked so hard during the week that she bumped […]
Incredible Resource for Catalogued Piano Repertoire
The FindPianoWorks website is a must-use tool for every piano teacher! I can’t believe I didn’t know about this sooner. FindPianoWorks is a very user-friendly database search tool that includes repertoire from three series of leveled anthologies: Masterwork Classics edited by Jane Magrath, the Kjos Repertoire series, edited by Keith Snell, and the Celebration Series, […]
Premiere Performance
Each year our state association commissions a composer to write a piece of music. This year’s composition, Impressions, is a piece for Quartet – piano, violin, viola and cello – by Miriam Overholt. When asked by our Commission Composer Chairperson what he could share with us about her, she responded: “A Mom can write music.” […]
Musical ESP: Expressively Synthesized Performance
Dr. Carolyn E. True is currently giving this session. She is our guest artist/clinician for the weekend and her performance last night was delightful. Her sessions today promise to be equally so: Dr. True began with a performance of China Gates by John Adams and encouraged us to think back to a day when we […]
Improvising is Easy!
Well, I didn’t plan to live blog at all from the conference, but since I have free wi-fi here and I”m sitting in an interesting workshop, I figured, why not? 🙂 Nancy Blockcolsky, our KMTA President-Elect, is giving this workshop – Improvising is Easy! – and is giving us a systematic approach to teaching improvisation […]
