My piano lessons continue at OC Music & Dance … Lessons Five and Six: Pain and gain. OC Music & Dance blog, Aug. 16, 2017.
Van Cliburn winner to visit Pacific Symphony
This year’s gold medalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Yekwon Sunwoo, the first Korean to take the top prize, will perform with Carl St.Clair and Pacific Symphony on Sept. 9 at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa. His
Lesson Four: Age and Aptitude
My fourth piano lesson at OCMD … Lesson Four: Age and Aptitude. OC Music & Dance blog, Aug. 3, 2017.
Video: Yuja Wang plays ‘Tritsch-Tratsch Polka’
How is this even humanly possible? Yuja Wang plays the “Tritsch-Tratsch Polka” by Johann Strauss, Jr., as arranged by Gyorgy Cziffra.
Lesson Three: Commitment
My third piano lesson … Lesson Three: Commitment. OC Music & Dance blog, July 31, 2017.
Audio: Stravinsky: Andante
Stravinsky’s music is often thought of as a relentlessly bold, spiky and angular, but he also wrote in gentle pastels. Here’s one such piece, his Andante for piano four hands (which I’m learning at the moment). And now listen to
Lesson Two: Practicing your cares away
My second piano lesson … Lesson Two: Practicing Your Cares Away. OC Music & Dance blog, July 24, 2017.
Music writer takes on the piano: Lesson One
The first in a series of articles I’ll be writing for OC Music & Dance: Music writer takes on the piano: Lesson One. OC Music & Dance blog, July 12, 2017.
Happy 4th: Horowitz plays ‘Stars and Stripes’
Everyone should hear this at least once in their life: Vladimir Horowitz plays his own arrangement of Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” on April 23, 1951 at Carnegie Hall.
Pianist Gloria Cheng to visit ‘Sonic Kitchen’
By TIMOTHY MANGAN Pianist Gloria Cheng will be driving down the freeway (we’re guessing the 5) from her home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Mount Washington next week to take part in the Pacific Symphony’s second and final “Sonic