December 26, 2021 - O'Connor Piano Studio

Boxing Day

December 26, 2021

Happy Boxing Day! Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a “Christmas box”, from their masters, employers or customers, in the United Kingdom,The Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and […]

❓ Piano Puzzlers!
The Piano Puzzlers book is available in the O’Connor Music Studio library if you’d like to give any a try. Piano Puzzlers as heard on American Public Media’s “Performance Today.” Includes 32 tunes with songs by Gershwin, Berlin, Arlen, Porter, Rodgers, Fats Waller, Lennon & McCartney, and others disguised in the styles of Bach, Handel, […]
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland August 2, 2022: The Royal Yacht Britannia
A Royal residence for over 40 years, The Royal Yacht Britannia sailed over 1,000,000 nautical miles on 968 state visits with the Royal Family.
📘 A Helpful Book For Parents or Adult Students
I have several copies of this book for the music studio so parents can check it out to see if it would be useful for them to buy for home use. If any of the studio parents have this book already, please let me know what you think. Some of my adult students have this […]
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Travel Day: Days 0 and 1, July 31-August 1, 2022
Sunday, July 31, 2022 was an early day since I was playing with my Recorder Consort at church. Since it’s the summer, we hadn’t practiced for quite a while, so we got together quite early to decide what to play and to put it all together. In the end, we played offertory, final hymn and […]
🎵 Roever and Korb: Highland Cathedral ~ Daily Listening Assignments
This is another piece I just like to listen to, partly because of the bagpipes. I do have sheet music, but it’s not quite the same! This melody was composed by German musicians Ulrich Roever and Michael Korb[1] in 1982 for a Highland games held in Germany. It has been proposed as the Scottish national […]
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland 2022, Pre-Trip
A couple years ago, we decided to go back to Scotland, back to see the Edinburgh Tattoo again. I got tickets for August 2020 and was excited to go…until COVID hit. The Tattoo (and everything else) was canceled and I figured that I’d made a donation the Tattoo fund. Oh well.
⏱ Requests? ~ Daily Listening Assignments
This is a travel day so I’m running late today…
🎵 MacDowell: To A Wild Rose ~ Daily Listening Assignments
To a Wild Rose is the first piece from Ten Woodland Sketches, Op. 51, by the American composer Edward MacDowell. It was completed in 1896, Numerous arrangements of the piece have been made. Though the original was for solo piano, it has been arranged for two sopranos, alto and piano. It has been said that […]
🎵 Brahms: Hungarian Dance #5 ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Today’s piece is Hungarian Dance #5 by Johannes Brahms. It’s available in Alfred Premier Piano Course Book 4 and many anthologies of classical music. The Hungarian Dances are a set of 21 lively dance tunes based mostly on Hungarian themes, completed in 1869.
🥁 Piano Guys: Amazing Grace, Scotland the Brave and Fight Song ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Just because. This is a favorite Piano Guys piece that combines Amazing Grace, Scotland the Brave and Fight Song. I had loved it since the first time I heard it. A couple years ago, we were on the train to New York to visit our son. He asked if we could go see the Piano […]
🎲 How to Play using J.S. Bach’s Ornament Table
The following ornament table is a transcription of the one appearing in the Clavier-Büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, written by Johann Sebastian Bach for the keyboard instruction of his eldest son. A scan of the original manuscript appears at Dave’s J.S. Bach Page.
2️⃣ Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody number 2 ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Today’s piece is a favorite in cartoons as you’ll see below. Hungarian Rhapsody number 2 by Franz Liszt is the second in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies and is by far the most famous of the set. They are all based on Hungarian folk tunes, or what Liszt assumed were Hungarian folk tunes. Even […]
🚛 Are You Moving this Summer?
Many homeowners don’t realize that there are movers available to them who specialize in the transportation and storage of pianos. A piano is a delicate instrument and not something you want to take risks with. By trusting this major job to a piano mover, you can rest easy knowing that one of the most valuable […]
🟠 Beethoven: Rage Over a Lost Penny ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Today’s piece is Beethoven’s Rage Over a Lost Penny found in Piano Pronto Movement 4, Songs I Love to Play 2 and Beethoven: Exploring His Life and Music. The official title is The “Rondo alla ingharese quasi un capriccio” in G major, Op. 129 (Italian for “Rondo in the Hungarian [i.e. gypsy] style, almost a […]
🛏 Sunday Rests ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Today is Sunday so…

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