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Just when you think you’ve seen it all
…something new comes along. One of the goals of entering the music festival is to gain performing confidence and experience. It’s about developing the ability that “the show must go on” no matter what. And performing live is unpredictable. Until yesterday I thought I’d seen it all: music falling off the piano, performers falling down…
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Science & Music
Scientific research is changing how we teach piano. And the field of how to teach music is rapidly expanding. Playing the piano is a complex skill – players have to master motor, cognitive, auditory, and expressive skills. There is much to still understand. By advancing the study of how piano skills develop, the Piano Pedagogy…
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Opening Day
The 66th Annual Ottawa Kiwanis Music Festival opens today. It’s a month-long music festival held at ten locations across Ottawa with over 10,000 area music students competing. That’s a lot of music! Students gain performing confidence and benefit from hearing others’ performances and the adjudicator’s comments. There are trophies and scholarships for the top performers. Performances…
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These Are a Few of My Favourite Things
I love live music – all kinds of genres in almost any venue. Recently all the stars aligned into my idea of a perfect evening…visiting a friend in my favourite city of Vancouver…seeing the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra perform in the beautiful Orpheum Theatre…hearing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 performed before a sold out house…conducted by…
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All grown up and still waiting to be a Rock Star
C’mon, ‘fess up. You play an instrument, and you dream of being a rock star. The League of Rock is here. You can join a rock band and have all the fun without the “I’m sleeping in my car somewhere in northern Ontario because I didn’t get paid from my last gig.” They provide rehearsal space,…
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Who Needs a Teacher Then?
The other day I was out for lunch with a friend at a Chinese food restaurant. When the bill came, there was a fortune cookie for each of us. Not wanting to tempt fate, I reached for the closest one, and opened it with a bit of skepticism. (Seriously, fortune cookies are just for fun,…
