Cultivating Brave Spaces in the Piano Studio Using DEI Repertoire and Practices
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How do you use multimedia in your concerts and student recitals?
Keyboard Companion Winter 2007; Vol. 18, No. 4
Multimedia is nothing more than the combination of two or more modalities of communication. Combine images with text, motion video with music, or ballet with sound effects, and you have created a multimedia piece. Unlike traditional recorded music, the live concert experience has always had a...
Becoming Weavers: Piano Students and Their Commissioned Arrangements of Music by Under-Represented Women Composers
Winter 2021; Vol. 12, No. 5
Weave: The Social Fabric Project is an Aspen Institute initiative that seeks to celebrate people who work to heal divisions in our society. David Brooks, the director of Weave, describes the movement: “Weavers are repairing our country’s social fabric, which is badly frayed by distrust, division and...
Silent Movie Accompanying for Students and Professionals
November 2012; Vol. 4, No. 6
In 2012, we are so far removed from the so-called silent film era (ca. 1894-1929) that most of us have only a vague concept of what it was really like. Although the films of that period were silent, their presentation was not. In the small...
When our Piano Students Inspire Others: The Socially Conscious Piano Studio
Winter 2020; Vol. 11, No. 5
Engaging in acts of kindness and collaboration is a mainstay of healthy living and a profound way to head off feelings of isolation, burnout, and depression. At the age students typically start piano lessons, they are also reaching a developmental stage in which they begin...