“High-Tech” Piano
Filed in Strange Findings on June 24, 2005 at 10:42 amHumor and Creativity
So, is this the future of piano technique? Or the future of recycling our old technology?
I actually found this to be very inventive, especially for inspiring music creativity in a young child (teachers should take note!)
Thanks to James for showing this to me.
Beyond the Mozart Effect
Filed in Humor on June 16, 2005 at 12:23 pmFound this very funny post on Teachers.net (click here to see the actual post and comments, and click here to see what the good folks at Violinist.com had to say about it.) Kudos to Donna music/TN for thinking of this. Enjoy!
See the Yang Liu Performance Online!
Filed in Performance, Reviews, Violin on at 12:10 amAfter twenty-five years of silence, “The Lady Tennant” Stradivarius took the stage again in the capable hands of Yang Liu, today at 6pm at the Kennedy Center. You can read the backstory for this special concert event in this article.
Liu’s performance opened with the much loved “Spring Sonata” — Beethoven’s Sonata No. 5, Op. 24, [...]
Most Expensive Musical Instrument
Filed in Performance, Strange Findings, Violin on June 14, 2005 at 11:28 am“The Stradivarius violin, known to musicians worldwide as ‘The Lady Tennant’ was recently purchased at Christie’s for $2,032,000, the highest amount ever paid for a musical instrument at auction.”
The Lady Tennant was crafted in 1699, and was first owned by Charles Philippe Lafont, a contemporary of Nicolo Paganini. On June 15, 2005 (that’s tomorrow!), “the [...]
The Beethoven Experience
Filed in General on June 11, 2005 at 1:48 pm“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”
–Ludwig van Beethoven
Available now from BBC.com, you can download the BBC Philharmonic’s recordings of all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies, for FREE. This is a wonderful opportunity to enhance your Classical music library with the set of works that helped usher music into [...]
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