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Incorporating Sight-Reading into Piano Lessons and Practice

It’s audition season at my university and, if this year is like previous ones, very few of the applicants will be strong sight-readers. Without question, it’s challenging for most teachers to regularly incorporate sight-reading during lessons, what with technical studies, theory, musicianship, and repertoire—let alone harmonization, transposition, improvisation and other keyboard skills. But since one [Read more...]
Posted 3 weeks ago
Edward MacDowell

For many years, it was believed that today was Edward MacDowell’s 150th birthday, but the evidence points to it actually being his 151st. MacDowell was the first American composer of international stature, although it seems increasingly rare to hear his music today. For several years, I championed his beautiful Sonata Eroica, and recorded it along [Read more...]
Posted 2 months ago