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March 2015; Vol. 7, No. 2
Dedication to excellence: An interview with Ingrid Clarfield
Ingrid Jacobson Clarfield has given lecture recitals, workshops, and master classes in more than a hundred cities across America, including many at state and national conferences of…
March 2015; Vol. 7, No. 2
The future of piano teaching – Technology and the learning process
Editor's note: In the November/December 2014 issue, Clavier Companion launched a series of articles addressing the future of piano teaching. This article is part of that…
March 2015; Vol. 7, No. 2
Should students count aloud when sight-reading?
Many piano teachers believe that it is imperative to teach students to count aloud when learning a new piece, and they certainly have support in many…
March 2015; Vol. 7, No. 2
Comping 103—Waltz-time broken chords
Here's a riddle: What do you break to fix? Answer: bland blocked chords. Whether improvising teacher accompaniments or helping students dress up ho-hum arrangements, broken chords…
March 2015; Vol. 7, No. 2
“Kamarinskaya” from Tchaikovsky’s Album for the Young
What exactly is a "kamarinskaya"? (The word is pronounced with an accent on the second syllable—kaMArinskaya.) In his Album for the Young, Tchaikovsky* gives each piece…
March 2015; Vol. 7, No. 2
The day of the thirty-two: Stewart Goodyear performs a Beethoven marathon
I recently endured something that probably no human should attempt. I heard, on Saturday, October 5, 2013, in Davis, California, at the University of California, Stewart Goodyear perform…
March 2015; Vol. 7, No. 2
A bravura piece for the left hand
Melody Bober's multivolume set of Grand One-Hand Solos for Piano (Alfred) offers some really cool pieces for the intermediate-to-late-intermediate pianist. Although they are written for one hand (either right…
March 2015; Vol. 7, No. 2
Creating cherpumple
You may wonder what baking a cake and giving a performance could possibly have in common, and I have to admit that I never thought about…
March 2015; Vol. 7, No. 2
Three keys to making a consistent income
One of the unhealthy mindsets in our profession is the notion that piano teachers cannot make a reasonable or a consistent income. This is tragic because…
March 2015; Vol. 7, No. 2
Studio policies for your sporadic adult students
I am a very happy and fairly healthy "Baby Boomer"—my father was a World War II veteran, and I was born in the fifties. We "Boomers"…