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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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A soft place to land to read poetry & stories about music & share our love of piano adventures!
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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*,***
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(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 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 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 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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- Aug 10
- 5 min
THE POETIC MUSE AND WHY I WRITE
Reading David Dowling’s pithy compendium of C. S. Lewis’ comments on writers and writing, (On Writing and Writers: A miscellany of advice...
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- Aug 9
- 14 min
"THE CONUNDRUMS" (AKA "THE BORN-AGAIN PIANIST", a self-deprecatory moving flight of fictional fancy)
(The first and last fabulous Fazioli I ever played in 2021 while testing grand pianos for purchase.) It was a dark and stormy night....
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- Aug 6
- 5 min
A NEVER-ENDING BATTLE: AGE AS A BLESSING OF CREATIVE OPPORTUNITY...OR ONLY A DEATH SENTENCE?
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(1)Am I past my "sell by" date? Let's just start out with a never-ending stereotype of what aging means in America today, by citing this...
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- Jun 17
- 2 min
THE JOY OF "PRACTICING"
I was recently talking with a piano teacher who hails from Kentucky, when she corrected something I had said. I mentioned "practicing"...
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- Jun 17
- 9 min
"PINK MAGNOLIA" (A short piano-love story)
I thought I would share my first-ever fictional short story involving music and performance. Although based loosely on some of my...
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- Jun 8
- 2 min
WHAT IS MUSIC? (Part III: The Process and the Personal)
Such simple and profound words describing music and its meaning in his life, were said on the CBS morning news today (6.8.23) by cellist...
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- Jun 5
- 3 min
WHEN LESS IS MORE (Guest Blog by Garreth Brooke)
INTRODUCTION: I know the above saying but often don't heed it, since I'm a woman who loves words! But today in homage to the theme, I...
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- Jun 4
- 5 min
GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT MUSIC
Amateur instrumentalists are often assumed not to be “serious” about their music studies or endeavors; they are often assumed to be...
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- May 22
- 3 min
AN HONEST RESPONSE TO THE ECSTASY OF CLASSICAL MUSIC!
Has classical music come back into favorable public opinion? Perhaps, even if public transit facilities are using it more and more to...
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- May 17
- 4 min
WHAT IS "MUSIC?" (Part II - Losing the North Star: The Modernists
MIRED IN THE "MANY" Music and the art of composing are "creating One out of Many" says Igor Stravinsky in six lectures he presented at...
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- May 11
- 3 min
SO, WHAT IS "MUSIC?" (Part 1:The Common Understanding)
For that matter, what is "noise?" (Could not resist this cute picture of my cat "Mo" helping me contemplate this question, and the below...
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