Lesson Four: Age and aptitude

Thoughts after piano lesson four…

Lesson Four: Age and Aptitude. OC Music & Dance blog, Aug. 3, 2017.

Lesson Three: Commitment

The piano lessons continue …

Lesson Three: Commitment. OC Music & Dance blog, July 31, 2017.

Video: Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8 (1955)

Sir Adrian Boult conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1972.

To hear other works in my Neglected Symphonies series, click here.

Lesson Two: Practicing your cares away

My second piano lesson …

Lesson Two: Practicing Your Cares Away. OC Music & Dance blog, July 24, 2017.

Thoughts While Attending the First Symphony in the Series My Wife Wanted to Buy

Thoughts While Attending the First Symphony in the Series My Wife Wanted to Buy. Pacific Symphony Blog, July 19, 2017.

Poll: Listening devices

Take a very brief poll  …

Poll: Listening devices. Pacific Symphony Blog, July 14, 2017.

 

Ex-music critic takes up the piano

Meanwhile, in one of my other lives …

Music writer takes on the piano: Lesson One. OC Music & Dance blog, July 12, 2017.

Video: Horowitz plays Scarlatti

Longo 23, Moscow, 1986.

Sousa addendum

Sousa addendum: ‘The Stars and Stripes Forever’ piccolo part. Pacific Symphony Blog, June 30, 2017.

Sousatime

Sousatime. Pacific Symphony Blog, June 28, 2017.

(The video above, best watched full screen, is part of the United States Marine Band’s new complete edition of Sousa’s marches, about which more in my article at the link.)