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Letters to the Editor: May/June 2017

May 2017; Vol. 9, No. 3

Dear Editor, My wife is a retired piano teacher and has been a long-time subscriber to your magazine and its precursors. As a music lover, I like to read it too and appreciate it very much. But I must object to your foray into identity...

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Autumn 2020: Questions & Answers

Autumn 2020; Vol. 12, No. 4

Question: When I was teaching online this spring, I noticed that my students benefited from short video tutorials, performance video feedback, and non-playing activities. I’d like to continue providing these resources for my students, even when we return to in- person teaching but this takes extra time...

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Remembering Van Cliburn

September 2013; Vol. 5, No. 5

Earlier this year, the musical world lost one of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century. Van Cliburn was the first (and only) classical musician to receive a ticker-tape parade, the first classical musician to sell more than one million copies of a record. He...

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Winter 2021: First Looks: New Music

Winter 2021; Vol. 12, No. 5

 (S) Five Easy Piano Sonatas and (S6) Five Famous Piano Sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven When new piano majors come to my college studio for their first lessons, one of my initial tasks is to discuss and assign them new repertoire. Unfortunately, many of these students were previously...

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