There is nothing different -- and everything different -- about teaching the piano to older students! Working in a cooperative...

People who experience more anxiety than others tend to focus attention on OPO (other people’s opinions), especially negative opinions....

“Sitting in the pocket” is a summary saying that comes to my mind when I consider this blog topic. On December 14 in an earlier blog, I...

Motivation to persist is a gossamer, ethereal concept. The yearning for some goal or thing is not all, because in order to effectively...

Such a lovely holiday present just arrived in my Dec. 23 morning email and it's about bells! It's an article written by Maureen Buja, a...

I'm not sure that "glitter effects" are passe. Glitter is ineluctable to me! Tom Stoddard, playwright and now 85, thinks differently, as...

This is the month and this is the week of "giving." For me, it's a time to take stock of my year and remember all the things for which I...

Almost as difficult to define as is "music," it is exceedingly difficult to define precisely what and who The Duchess is, and what she...

My mom used to tell me there was always a silver lining in every cloud. Not long ago during two years of holistic physical training, my...

I noted a December 11, 2022 New York Times' article by Jenny Odell about what Twittering does/did to her sense of time. Her conclusions,...

I observe that when I enter into music, either as a player of my piano or a listener to another person or group, I am participating in an...

“You have a sound pedaling technique and appropriate expression of the feeling of the piece,” my online piano teacher had said on...

In February 2022 after one year of piano lessons, a certain experience got my attention in a big way. There was time to play two pieces...

A Teacher’s Role A teacher’s role is wider than just giving us effective methods. It’s more to help us hear the tune and understand the...

During a piano lesson on November 17, 2022, my teacher wanted to help me fine-tune the piece I was working on, the Tchaikovsky Waltz from...

In society, having fun is considered by many to be less valuable than working hard or being practical or "serious." The label of...