"It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives," said Fred Rogers. Check out...

Reading David Dowling’s pithy compendium of C. S. Lewis’ comments on writers and writing, (On Writing and Writers: A miscellany of advice...

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...

Some think that a discussion of a music genre or particular composition is concluded by focusing on evaluating the matters of artistry...

What makes the cold, hard black-and-white notes on a score sheet come to life? From my position early on the recent three-year journey...

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...

I wonder if pianists of top calibur like Yuja Wang (pictured here at a March 2023 symphony where I heard her play Rachmaninoff's Third...

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,...

Theories in the field of psychology about motivation are vast. What can we use to motivate ourselves toward lessons with a goal of...