The Unclear Future? (See fall 2024 see my subsequent blog on the invasion of AI into the creative process, like it or not! See this...

DAVID GEORGE HASKELL has written a lovely book about music -- or better said, about the aspect of music that involves the ears, the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Are we adult piano students horses of a different color when it comes to lessons taken up in later life? Are there different ways we...

I was recently talking with a piano teacher who hails from Kentucky, when she corrected something I had said. I mentioned "practicing"...

I thought I would share my first-ever fictional short story involving music and performance. Although based loosely on some of my...

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...

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...

The renown and often respected piano teacher Henrich Neuhaus  (1888 - 1964) thought that "amateurism" tainted the perfection that any...

Has classical music come back into favorable public opinion? Perhaps, even if public transit facilities are using it more and more to...

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...

For that matter, what is "noise?" (Could not resist this cute picture of my cat "Mo" helping me contemplate this question, and the below...

In the world of "separate knowing," criticism is not personal. The knowers "must accept it with equanimity," explain the authors of the...

After almost two years of zoom lessons and a ton of YouTube research on music and "how to" technical skills since returning to the piano...

Reading the French word "complicite" (accent aigu) had a powerful impact on my understanding about the learning environment when it...

The most beautiful illustration of the nature of relationship and teaching style under which I thrive, came when recently I interviewed,...