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NO EASY TASK TO MATCH STUDENT TO TEACHER: Finding Luxury Together!
"...it is no easy task to match up the right child with the right teacher, even with the best of intention." So says piano teacher Eloise...
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A soft place to land to read poetry & stories about music & share our love of piano adventures!
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- Nov 29
- 7 min
THE PAUSE THAT REFRESHES: TAKE TWO
Above is Rocket, my cat Tipsy's boyfriend, pausing under mentor Joe's gorgeous "Sir B" (seven foot special Beethoven edition Bosendorfer...
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- Nov 17
- 7 min
SLIDING SEAMLESSLY PAST ESSENTIAL TRUTHS*
Image taken in March while camping in Death Valley. Somehow this picture reminds me of "essential truths." My very first class and first...
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- Nov 14
- 7 min
MY EIGHTY TRIPS AROUND THE SUN*,***
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(1)What could be better than music -- and a magician -- and a belly dancer -- to celebrate my Armistice's Day 80tieth birthday party --...
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- Nov 4
- 5 min
TO A GREAT MASTER IN THE CALLIGRAPHIC AND LIFE ARTS: ALAN BLACKMAN
Calligraphy master Alan Blackman taught a Chinese brush technique class I took at the oLd basement de young Museum Art School some...
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- Nov 3
- 7 min
THE MIRACLE OF SECRETS REVEALED IN POETRY
I don't always get it right. Not the first time, and not 100%. Sometime later I usually do. It's like when I write; I have to circle the...
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- Oct 23
- 5 min
WHEELS HANGING OVER THE EDGE: ARE ALL ARTISTS (A BIT) MAD?
Always one of my favorite personal gifts drawn for me by a talented psychologist friend, Dick Boestler, after we met once. My new...
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- Oct 13
- 4 min
"A SINISTER GLITTER IN HER EYE," MUSIC & H. L. MENCKEN
There is something beguiling about humor, especially self-deprecating humor. Especially so when I can muster it in relation to my recent...
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- Oct 12
- 3 min
MUSICAL REINVENTION AFTER CHANGE OR RETIREMENT -- SOMETIMES BY OTHERS!
Intended or unintended periods of major change that are inevitable throughout our very-human lives can result in beneficial -- or...
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- Oct 10
- 6 min
PLAYING LIKE A CALLIOPE -- IN A BAD (BUT INNOCENT?) WAY
Calliopes are usually associated with the joyful experiences of riding on colorful and fanciful merry-go-rounds when we are children. A...
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- Oct 6
- 6 min
A.I. IS NOT ART !
The Unclear Future? Artists – pianists and poets – are never expendable. So says Manohla Dargis in her Sunday, October 1 New York Times’...
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- Sep 26
- 5 min
WHEN MUSIC MAKES YOU FEEL FREE ("Me atrapaste" in music!)
Where do you feel “all there”? When do you feel that you want to jump so high that you don’t have to come down? When do you feel whole?...
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- Sep 23
- 5 min
FINDING ONE'S SONIC PLACE IN THE MUSIC WORLD
DAVID GEORGE HASKELL has written a lovely book about music -- or better said, about the aspect of music that involves the ears, the...
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- Sep 21
- 3 min
HARMONIZING THE WORLD: My journey with 432 Hz continues...
When I'm playing my favored new style of pieces these days, i.e., simple, lyrical, and slow, I sometimes just stop dead upon hearing a...
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- Sep 17
- 5 min
THE DIGNITY OF "TRIVIAL LITTLE PIECES"
If famed cellist Pablo Casals could do it – so can I! While Vivian Mackie was studying cello with Pablo Casals in Spain in the early...
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- Sep 12
- 3 min
PIANO LESSONS AND PERFORMANCE ARE LIFE!
So far away from the stage to hear the inimitable Ms. Wang play at the SF Symphony spring 2023, even in this closeup image! * * * HOLIDAY...
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- Sep 11
- 5 min
MUSIC - UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL IS "BEST"
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(1)What is "best" is normally not a concept that I like to promote when it comes to any aspect of music. But I clearly prefer live music up...
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- Sep 6
- 6 min
THE DUCHESS HAS A NEW "SOUND OUTFIT"! (Which do you like best?)
As promised in the earlier blog post a few days ago, The Duchess has a new "sound outfit!" Bay Area piano tech David Amendola was kind...
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- Aug 27
- 16 min
MUSICAL OBFUSCATION AS A MEANS OF CONTROL?
Seeing clearly at dawn in Death Valley, March 2023 Using different words to mean the same thing (unless one is a poet and seeks not to...
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- Aug 20
- 4 min
DISQUIET TO QUIET--THE CHALLENGE OF ANXIETY DURING PERFORMANCE
“If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember trees lose their leaves every year and they stand tall and wait for better days to...
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