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National Tap Dance Day

May 25, 2023
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  Read more about National Tap Dance Day.

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Clair de lune by Claude Debussy from Concert for Ukraine

May 4, 2023
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    Brian Stevenson, Director of Music Ministries at Pender UMC in Fairfax, VA, performed Clair de lune from Debussy’s Suite bergamasque during Pender’s new Concert Series which began on April 23, 2022. ‘Clair de lune’, meaning moonlight, was written by the Impressionist French composer Claude Debussy.  It is the third movement of a four-movement work, […]

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Christmas Countdown: Hallelujah Chorus

December 25, 2022
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  Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Psalms. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742, and received its London premiere nearly a year later. After an initially modest […]

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Christmas Countdown: Sleigh Ride

December 1, 2022
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I’ve always liked Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride as a secular Christmas song 🙂  It’s not technically a Christmas song since the words never mention Christmas but it’s often played now so it seems like a way to ease into the season. Anderson had the original idea for the piece during a heatwave in July 1946; […]

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Fall 2022 Listening and Coloring Pages

October 3, 2022
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  I have purchased a set of Shades of Sound Listening & Coloring Book: Halloween for the studio. Each week, I will print out some of the pages for your student and put them in his/her notebook.  They are also available in your Parent/Student Portal.   After listening to the music on YouTube, the student may color the […]

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Hands According to Pianists

August 19, 2022
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Redditor NeokratosRed had an idea: depict the hands of great composers and pianists, according to the characteristics of their music. He shared it on the social media site, and also punted for suggestions of more. It has since received over 300,000 images views, and lots of further suggestions from fellow Redditors and piano geeks. Whisks […]

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Roever and Korb: Highland Cathedral ~ Final Daily Listening Assignment!

August 8, 2022
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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 […]

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Requests? ~ Daily Listening Assignments

August 7, 2022
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  This is a travel day so I’m running late today…

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MacDowell: To A Wild Rose ~ Daily Listening Assignments

August 6, 2022
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  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 […]

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Brahms: Hungarian Dance #5 ~ Daily Listening Assignments

August 5, 2022
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    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. They vary from about a minute to five minutes in […]

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