Piano Lessons
Shanghai Journal #1: I’m here!
As the title says, we arrived uneventfully, if that’s an applicable word, on Monday. In other words, we’re here in Shanghai. We’ve since registered at
January 17, 2018
Martin
August 14, 2016
Piano Practice
Ear training train your ear with singing
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June 22, 2016
Meludia and technology
I’m going to become much more pro-active re: technology for music learning. There’s so much good technology stuff out there and, indeed, the piano, is
June 10, 2016
In response to Andrew Eales at PianoDao.com
Technology and the Internet have made a lot of things possible. One of this things is starting every day with a look through the Internet.
June 7, 2016
Glenn Gould and the Goldbergs – a new edition
https://youtu.be/IhLQKDcicCA There’s an interesting article in the NY Times about a new edition of the Goldberg Variations. The edition is a transcription of Gould’s famous
June 5, 2016
PolishookPiano News
British association for musical therapy This coming Thursday, 29 April, am very excited to be giving an improvisation workshop to a group from the British
April 25, 2016
Feeling Instead Of Hearing (A Metronomic Pulse)
I have known metronomes. And I’ve philosophised about them. For example: As Time Goes By: Musical Time And The Metronome Metronomes And Measured Time Today
March 20, 2016
The Music of Asylum
There’s an amazing history of musicians and music companies who’ve supported asylum seekers. I blogged about Bluthner doing just that, when Hitler was in power-probably
March 12, 2016
Arnold Schoenberg, pianos, Blüthner, and the Holocaust
I visited the Arnold Schoenberg Centre in Vienna last fall. It was my last stop after a day of going to Vienna’s Steinway, Bosendorfer, and
March 9, 2016
Dr Mark Polishook, currently based in Maine in the US (that after a decade in Leicester in the UK), is known internationally as a jazz pianist and a composer. He is a former director of the music composition and theory programs at Central Washington University in the United States.
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