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Piano Inspires Book Club | Chapters 5-8: Exploring Student-Teacher Relationships and Various Pedagogical Confessions
Piano Inspires Book Club | Chapters 5-8: Exploring Student-Teacher Relationships and Various Pedagogical Confessions
Join author Robert Weirich and host Beth Sussman for the second in a four-part, open-access series discussing Recollections: A Pianist’s Essays on Teaching, Performing, and Living. Each meeting will cover one portion of the book, with guided conversation around the topic of the month. A recurring link to attend will be provided by email upon registration. Re-registration for each event is not required. Participants are encouraged to attend all four meetings, or attend as their schedule permits. All are welcome!
- Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 11AM EST | Chapters 1-4: Finding a Career
- Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 11AM EST | Chapters 5-8: Exploring Student-Teacher Relationships and Various Pedagogical Confessions
- Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 11AM EDT | Chapters 9-12: Celebrating Composers, Competitions, and Self-Reflection
- Tuesday, April 8, 11AM EDT | Chapters 13-16: Diving into Relevance, Politics, and Future Directions in the Field of Music
The second meeting (February) will center around the importance of mentors and the sustainability of our musical world given issues of financial investment, structure of educational systems, continuing education for teachers, and more. Participants are recommended to read pp. 87-182, and to submit any questions to author Robert Weirich and host Beth Sussman using the button below.
About Recollections
Recollections gathers dozens of articles Robert Weirich wrote for various music journals, including Clavier, over the last four decades. The essays are linked by new writing that is both memoir and an exploration of the place of the arts in American society. Weirich addresses many aspects of making a career in music—from getting started to the importance of teachers, competitions, and the question of sustainability.
Whether one ascends to the Carnegie stage or teaches little fingers to play, the underlying aspirations—at their purest—are the same.
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About the Author
Robert Weirich has enjoyed an extremely active career as a pianist, teacher, author, and composer. His COVID project was to collect many of his beloved Clavier columns into a book that also contains new writing–Recollections: A Pianist’s Essays on Teaching, Performing, and Living.
About the Host
Beth Sussman received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at the age of twenty one from The Juilliard School where she was on full scholarship. She has performed throughout North America and Europe.
In addition to performing, Beth is a Master Teaching Artist with The Los Angeles Music Center and The Kennedy Center. Through these organizations, she offers school performances and Artist in Residency Programs. A television pilot loosely based on her life was executive produced by Kelsey Grammer for Paramount Pictures Television for NBC.
Questions? Please contact teachereducation@francesclarkcenter.org.