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Summer 2025; Vol. 17, No. 2
Exceptional Lives In Music: A Look at the Frances Clark Center 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees
During The Piano Conference: NCKP 2025, Barbara Fast, Susanna Garcia, Gary Ingle, William Chapman Nyaho, and Craig Sale will be honored by the Frances Clark Center…
Summer 2025; Vol. 17, No. 2
Applying Metacognition and Embodied Learning in Piano Lessons
As teachers, we often find that students’ independent practice overlooks or even exacerbates problems that complicate their progress. Most students need guidance during their practice time,…
Summer 2025; Vol. 17, No. 2
Using the Zone of Proximal Development as a Framework for Teaching Adult Avocational Pianists
Who Are Adult Avocational Learners? There are many types of piano students, each with unique needs and motivations, but one group that is not always addressed…
Summer 2025; Vol. 17, No. 2
Summer 2025: Editor’s Letter
In his interviews with Bill Moyers in the late 1980s, mythologist Joseph Campbell urged viewers to find their place of “creative incubation” and to use it…
Summer 2025; Vol. 17, No. 2
Summer 2025: Questions and Answers
Introducing intermediate students to harmonization is a strategic idea, as it is a skill that will benefit them in numerous ways! Many contemporary settings require pianists…
Summer 2025; Vol. 17, No. 2
Summer 2025: Life in Music
This issue of Piano Magazine is one of our most inspiring because it celebrates the extraordinary contributions of our 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award honorees. These five…
Summer 2025; Vol. 17, No. 2
Summer 2025: Recording Reviews
As part of their 50th-anniversary commemoration, the incomparable Takács Quartet, joined by the extraordinary Marc-André Hamelin, performs piano quintets by Florence Price and Antonín Dvořák. Price’s…
Summer 2025; Vol. 17, No. 2
Summer 2025: Book Review
While I have an extensive personal library devoted to all things piano and pedagogy, I recommend only a handful of books repeatedly to students because I…
Summer 2025; Vol. 17, No. 2
Summer 2025: New Music & Materials
BEGINNING: Five-finger patterns & simple rhythms 1 EASY: Scales & simple syncopation 2 INTERMEDIATE: Beginning counterpoint & complex rhythms, Bach notebooks, Bartók Mikrokosmos I–II 3 LATE-INTERMEDIATE:…
Summer 2025; Vol. 17, No. 2
Wellness: Interleaved Practice: A Counterintuitive but Powerful Practice Method
Most of us practice using a blocked practice method: we work on one thing for a large block of time before moving on to something else.…
Summer 2025; Vol. 17, No. 2
Pupil Saver: “Evening Intermezzo” from Classic Touches by Jeanine Yeager Contemporary Colors, Classic Textures
“Evening Intermezzo” exists within the tradition of the elaborated chorale such as those used by Frédéric Chopin or J. S. Bach. Jeanine Yeager’s use of lush…