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...

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

(The first and last fabulous Fazioli I ever played in 2021 while testing grand pianos for purchase.) It was a dark and stormy night....

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...

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...

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

The COCA-COLA company claims that "Advertising slogans are a part of everyday life for consumers around the world,and Coca-Cola has...

One of the principal elements I seek in any piano teacher with whom I work, is that I be allowed to choose the pieces I want to learn,...

Last night I played Schumann's "Traumerie," Mendelssohn's "Confidence (intermediate arrangement)," Schumann's "Foreign Lands," Aram...

Shaky self esteem and self confidence seem to be major challenges for many senior or "older" adult piano students. A former piano teacher...

Today after a short conversation with my composer-pianist friend Bruce, this strange idea came to me: Do you think up there somewhere in...

Bruce, a composer-pianist-broker friend who is significant to my growing musical confidence and knowledge, recently asked why my music...