The Well-Tempered Keyboard Teacher (Paperback) by Marienne Uszler (Author); Also: Stewart Gordon (Author), Scott McBride-Smith (Author) This is by far the most comprehensive and thorough book on teaching music. It will be of huge interest to non-pianists as well. The book covers six main sections: The Beginning Student, The Intermediate Student, The Advanced student, The [...]
Review: Practicing by Glenn Kurtz
Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music Glenn Kurtz (Author) Publisher: Knopf (June 19, 2007) ISBN-10: 030726615X ISBN-13: 978-0307266156 This is a great book filled with classical guitar history and the personal account of a musician deeply affected by the power of music. Kurtz spins a narrative that weaves together the experiences of practising, performing, and [...]
Tina Guo plays Apres Un Reve
Classical Music videos are sooo in! More and more I’m seeing the medium of soloists and video directors/producers/artists collaborate toward projects like the one below. Watch out MTV! Music video for cellist Tina Guo’s arrangement of Apres Un Reve by Gabriel Fauré The Cello scenes were shot thru a camera obsucura then combined with intimate [...]
Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival
The Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival: Events include comedians, street events, an eight-metre-high man, live film accompaniment and a new fringe programme. You can also see a mix of classical, drama, folk, jazz, film and children’s events. Don’t get confused by the website link: It’s not: www.dgartsfestival.org Not: www.dgartsfestival.uk It is: www.dgartsfestival.org.uk From: http://www.dgartsfestival.org.uk/about/ Welcome [...]
Pat Metheny Interview – Orchestrion
Pat Metheny talks about his new album Orchestrion. This is pretty brilliant, the instruments react to his midi control on his guitar making the experience interactive with the mechanized instruments. This kind of interaction and relationship with the otherwise lifeless controlled sounds really changes the concept and possibilities of playing with electronics. Neat stuff, gotta [...]
Review: The Inner Game of Music
The Inner Game of Music By Barry Green, W. Timothy Gallwey Those of you unfamiliar with the legacy of this title will need to travel back to the 1970′s when his popular book The Inner Game of Tennis was a big seller. Since the 1970s, Timothy Gallwey’s books such as The Inner Game of Tennis, [...]
Alex Ross – Listen To This
Alex Ross, popular writer of the bestseller “The Rest is Noise” has a new publication coming out. He states, “I’m happy to present the cover for my next book, Listen To This, which Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish on September 28th.” Check out the table of contents and more at his blog: www.therestisnoise.com/2010/02/listen-cover.html
Aqua’s Barbie Girl Four Cello Classical Version
“Classical Barbie Girl” Version for four cellos. Quotation: “What better way to impress your parents after years of being trained in classical music, than to play a cover of a pop song that they hate.” If you don’t know the original, check it out…beware, it bubbly and wonderfull and will stay in your head for [...]
