Page 5: The Editor’s Page
Elvina Pearce
Page 6: Teacher/Student/Parent
How do you help students deal with stage fright?
Barbara Kreader
Page 10: Home Practice
What technique exercises do your students do as warm-ups for practice?
Elvina Pearce with Birgit Matzerath, Melanie Foster Taylor, and Karen Zorn
Page 16: Music Reading
What role does fingering play in music-reading?
Craig Sale with Mary Bloom, Jane Magrath, and Susan Osborn
Page 22: Technique
Are curved fingers important in the early stages of piano study?
Scott McBride Smith with Virginia Hutchings, Elizabeth Manduca, and Pamela Worchester
Page 26: Rhythm
How do you introduce sixteenth notes?
Bruce Berr with Naomi Oliphant and Marilyn Slenk
Page 30: Perspectives in Pedagogy
What teacher was most influential in your teaching career and why?
Kathleen Murray with Bruce Berr and Marcia Bosits
Page 34: Adult Piano Study
How can we bridge the adult’s gap between wishing and doing?
Brenda Dillon
Page 36: Repertoire
What is your student’s first encounter with sonatina literature?
Marvin Blickenstaff with Miriam Byler, Yat-Yee Chong, Amy Glennon, and Debra Ronning
Page 44: Technology
What can you accomplish with your students using a new technology that you could not accomplish previously?
George Litterst with Jennifer K. DeBrosse, Ellen Johansen, and Kathleen Maskell
Page 47: News and Views
How do you handle the balancing act of teaching siblings with unequal abilities?
Helen Smith Tarchalski with Carole Flatau and Rhonda Ringering
