2020-4 Author: Seymour Bernstein Year: 1981 Publisher: G. Shirmer. Now that I am reframing my book as a prescriptive nonfiction, I am surveying books that are comparable in some measures to what I have in mind. This book comes close to an aspect of my book in presenting the art of piano playing, and the […]
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Time is subjective. The beauty of the so-called “art of time” largely lies in the subjectivity of time. However, the rise of metronome as practice aides in the nineteenth century objectified the feeling of musical pulse for the musicians in their practice rooms. It reflects our current dependence on data and analysis, an aftereffect of
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on Feb 6, 2020, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. I bet at some point you secretly wondered why there were so many different pianists playing the same piece. If the piece is the same, aren’t the end results the
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2020-3 The Death Class: A True Story About Life by Erika Hayasaki (2014) Simon and Schuster. I love libraries. Lately, I have been spending more time there, looking through the shelves to see what works in the cover, title, subjects…what sells a book to a reader? And then, to lots of readers? Although I was
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“Visions Take Flight” is a debut album by River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, lovingly known in Houston as ROCO. I have been a member of ROCO since 2014, and participated in the recording of this album. It’s very uniquely ROCO in that all five pieces on the album were commissioned by ROCO, and chosen to be
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