Skip to content

O'Connor Online Piano Lessons

In person, too!

Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Composers
  • Online Checklist
  • Portal
  • Registration
  • Studio Policy
  • Zoom Instructions

Category: Daily Listening

Clair de lune by Claude Debussy from Concert for Ukraine

May 4, 2022
| No Comments
| Daily Listening

    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, […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/daily-listening/" rel="category tag">Daily Listening</a> Tagged <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/advance-982450/" rel="tag">advance #982450</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/benefit-concert/" rel="tag">benefit concert</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/brian-stevenson/" rel="tag">Brian Stevenson</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/clair-de-lune/" rel="tag">Clair de Lune</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/claude-debussy/" rel="tag">Claude Debussy</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/harp/" rel="tag">harp</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/spring-concert/" rel="tag">spring concert</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/suite-bergamasque/" rel="tag">Suite Bergamasque</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/ukraine/" rel="tag">Ukraine</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/umcor/" rel="tag">umcor</a> Leave a comment

Christmas Countdown: Hallelujah Chorus

December 25, 2021
| No Comments
| Christmas, Composers, Daily Listening, Holiday

  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 […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/holiday/christmas/" rel="category tag">Christmas</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/composers/" rel="category tag">Composers</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/daily-listening/" rel="category tag">Daily Listening</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/holiday/" rel="category tag">Holiday</a> Tagged <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/ascension/" rel="tag">ascension</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/death/" rel="tag">death</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/george-frideric-handel/" rel="tag">George Frideric Handel</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/gospel/" rel="tag">gospel</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/hallelujah-chorus/" rel="tag">Hallelujah Chorus</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/handel/" rel="tag">Handel</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/messiah/" rel="tag">Messiah</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/mormon-tabernacle-choir/" rel="tag">Mormon Tabernacle Choir</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/oratorio/" rel="tag">oratorio</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/resurrection/" rel="tag">resurrection</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/the-passion/" rel="tag">the Passion</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/video/" rel="tag">video</a> Leave a comment

Christmas Countdown: Sleigh Ride

December 1, 2021
| 1 Comment
| Christmas, Composers, Daily Listening, Holiday, Pianists, Piano, Sheet Music

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; […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/holiday/christmas/" rel="category tag">Christmas</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/composers/" rel="category tag">Composers</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/daily-listening/" rel="category tag">Daily Listening</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/holiday/" rel="category tag">Holiday</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/pianists/" rel="category tag">Pianists</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/piano/" rel="category tag">Piano</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/sheet-music/" rel="category tag">Sheet Music</a> Tagged <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/arthur-fiedler/" rel="tag">Arthur Fiedler</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/boston-pops/" rel="tag">Boston Pops</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/christmas/" rel="tag">Christmas</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/christmas-music/" rel="tag">Christmas Music</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/composers/" rel="tag">composers</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/holidays/" rel="tag">Holidays</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/lending-library/" rel="tag">Lending Library</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/leroy-anderson/" rel="tag">LeRoy Anderson</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/mormon-tabernacle-choir/" rel="tag">Mormon Tabernacle Choir</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/music/" rel="tag">music</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/music-books/" rel="tag">Music Books</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/pianists/" rel="tag">Pianists</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/secular/" rel="tag">secular</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/sleigh-ride/" rel="tag">Sleigh Ride</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/sleigh-ride-fantasy/" rel="tag">Sleigh Ride Fantasy</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/video/" rel="tag">video</a> 1 Comment

Fall 2021 Listening and Coloring Pages

October 4, 2021
| No Comments
| Daily Listening

  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 […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/daily-listening/" rel="category tag">Daily Listening</a> Tagged <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/abel-decaux/" rel="tag">Abel Decaux</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/albert-pieczonka/" rel="tag">Albert Pieczonka</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/camille-saint-saens/" rel="tag">Camille Saint-Saëns</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/coloring-book/" rel="tag">coloring book</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/composers/" rel="tag">composers</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/daily-listening-assignment/" rel="tag">Daily Listening Assignment</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/edvard-grieg/" rel="tag">Edvard Grieg</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/edvard-hagerup-grieg/" rel="tag">Edvard Hagerup Grieg</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/franz-liszt/" rel="tag">Franz Liszt</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/frederic-chopin/" rel="tag">Frederic Chopin</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/halloween/" rel="tag">Halloween</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/henry-cowell/" rel="tag">Henry Cowell</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/holidays/" rel="tag">Holidays</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/j-s-bach/" rel="tag">J.S. Bach</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/johann-sebastian-bach/" rel="tag">Johann Sebastian Bach</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/maurice-ravel/" rel="tag">Maurice Ravel</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/modest-petrovich-mussorgsky/" rel="tag">Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/modeste-mussorgsky/" rel="tag">Modeste Mussorgsky</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/music-books/" rel="tag">Music Books</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/nicolai-rimsky-korsakov/" rel="tag">Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/orchestra/" rel="tag">orchestra</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/paul-dukas/" rel="tag">Paul Dukas</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/piano/" rel="tag">piano</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/sergei-sergeyevich-prokofiev/" rel="tag">Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/william-bolcom/" rel="tag">William Bolcom</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/youtube/" rel="tag">YouTube</a> Leave a comment

Piano Maestro Now has Disney Music!

September 4, 2021
| No Comments
| Daily Listening

New BIG Piano Maestro version now out with a magical Disney song special for you and your students to enjoy! Starting today, during the month of September a new Disney song will be added each week for your students to learn and play. “How Far I’ll Go” from Moana is this week’s first song! These iconic […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/daily-listening/" rel="category tag">Daily Listening</a> Tagged <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/disney/" rel="tag">Disney</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/joytunes/" rel="tag">JoyTunes</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/moana/" rel="tag">Moana</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/piano-maestro/" rel="tag">Piano Maestro</a> Leave a comment

Roever and Korb: Highland Cathedral ~ Daily Listening Assignments

August 24, 2021
| No Comments
| Daily Listening

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 […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/daily-listening/" rel="category tag">Daily Listening</a> Tagged <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/daily-listening-assignment/" rel="tag">Daily Listening Assignment</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/edinburgh-tattoo/" rel="tag">Edinburgh Tattoo</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/highland-cathedral/" rel="tag">Highland Cathedral</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/mormon-tabernacle-choir/" rel="tag">Mormon Tabernacle Choir</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/red-hot-chili-pipers/" rel="tag">Red Hot Chili Pipers</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/video/" rel="tag">video</a> Leave a comment

Hands According to Pianists

August 18, 2021
| No Comments
| Daily Listening

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 […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/daily-listening/" rel="category tag">Daily Listening</a> Tagged <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/claude-debussy/" rel="tag">Claude Debussy</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/composers/" rel="tag">composers</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/franz-liszt/" rel="tag">Franz Liszt</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/frederic-chopin/" rel="tag">Frederic Chopin</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/hands/" rel="tag">hands</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/johann-sebastian-bach/" rel="tag">Johann Sebastian Bach</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/john-cage/" rel="tag">John Cage</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/ludwig-van-beethoven/" rel="tag">Ludwig Van Beethoven</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/pianist/" rel="tag">pianist</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/pianists/" rel="tag">Pianists</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/piano/" rel="tag">piano</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/pierre-boulez/" rel="tag">Pierre Boulez</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/sergei-rachmaninov/" rel="tag">Sergei Rachmaninov</a> Leave a comment

MacDowell: To A Wild Rose ~ Daily Listening Assignments

August 14, 2021
| No Comments
| Daily Listening, Piano

  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 […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/daily-listening/" rel="category tag">Daily Listening</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/piano/" rel="category tag">Piano</a> Tagged <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/composers/" rel="tag">composers</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/daily-listening-assignment/" rel="tag">Daily Listening Assignment</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/edward-macdowell/" rel="tag">Edward MacDowell</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/movement-4/" rel="tag">Movement 4</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/piano-pronto/" rel="tag">Piano Pronto</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/to-a-wild-rose/" rel="tag">To a Wild Rose</a> Leave a comment

Brahms: Hungarian Dance #5 ~ Daily Listening Assignments

August 11, 2021
| No Comments
| Daily Listening, Piano

    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 […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/daily-listening/" rel="category tag">Daily Listening</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/piano/" rel="category tag">Piano</a> Tagged <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/alfred-premier-piano-course-book-4/" rel="tag">Alfred Premier Piano Course Book 4</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/bill-edwards/" rel="tag">Bill Edwards</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/composers/" rel="tag">composers</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/daily-listening-assignment/" rel="tag">Daily Listening Assignment</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/hungarian-dances/" rel="tag">Hungarian Dances</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/johannes-brahms/" rel="tag">Johannes Brahms</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/ragtime/" rel="tag">ragtime</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/video/" rel="tag">video</a> Leave a comment

Piano Guys: Amazing Grace, Scotland the Brave and Fight Song ~ Daily Listening Assignments

August 10, 2021
| 1 Comment
| Daily Listening, Piano

  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 […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/daily-listening/" rel="category tag">Daily Listening</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/category/piano/" rel="category tag">Piano</a> Tagged <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/amazing-grace/" rel="tag">Amazing Grace</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/composers/" rel="tag">composers</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/daily-listening-assignment/" rel="tag">Daily Listening Assignment</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/fight-song/" rel="tag">Fight Song</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/scotland-the-brave/" rel="tag">Scotland the Brave</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/the-piano-guys/" rel="tag">The Piano Guys</a>, <a href="https://oconnorpiano.online/tag/video/" rel="tag">video</a> 1 Comment

Posts navigation

1 2 … 8 Next

Latest Posts

  • Keyboards for Beginners
  • It’s National Buy a Musical Instrument Day
  • “Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio” by Claude Bolling from Concert for Ukraine
  • Happy Mother’s Day!
  • Don’t Get Around Much Anymore by Duke Ellington from Concert for Ukraine

RSS O'Connor Music Studio Recommendations

  • 🇺🇦 “Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio” by Claude Bolling from Concert for Ukraine
    Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio by Claude Bolling “Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano (aka Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio) is a “crossover” composition, synthesizing Baroque and swing era jazz elements, by the jazz pianist and composer Claude Bolling. The composition, originally written in 1973, is a suite of seven movements, […]
  • 🌸 Happy Mother's Day!
    Happy Mother's Day!
  • 🇺🇦 Don’t Get Around Much Anymore by Duke Ellington from Concert for Ukraine
    “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” is a jazz standard written by composer Duke Ellington. The song was originally entitled “Never No Lament” and was first recorded by Duke Ellington and his orchestra on May 4, 1940.
  • 🇺🇦 Sonata Latino: Bossa Merengova by Mike Mower from Concert for Ukraine
    The Pender Concert Supporting Ukraine on April 23 featured Liz Sellers on piano, Brian on harp, and local professional musicians, including woodwind quintet, drums, organ, guitar, flute, penny whistle, singing and violin. Concert repertoire included: Harp arrangements by Debussy, Piano trio of Jazz/Baroque, Flute Concertino by Chaminade, Woodwind Quintet with music of Duke Ellington, The […]
  • 🇺🇦 Clair de lune by Claude Debussy from Concert for Ukraine
    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, Suite […]
  • 🌟 Happy Star Wars Day!
  • 🇺🇦 Flute Concertino in D major, Op. 107 by Cécile Chaminade from Concert for Ukraine
    Cécile Chaminade’s Flute Concertino in D major, Op. 107, was composed in 1902 for flute and piano and later arranged by herself for flute and orchestra.The piece remains a standard and popular part of the flute repertoire.
  • 🇺🇦 Irish Session from Concert for Ukraine
    Irish traditional music sessions are mostly informal gatherings at which people play Irish traditional music although “session” can also refer to a mixed session of tunes and songs such as we had at Pender during the Concert Supporting Ukraine. Jeannette Mulherin (Irish fiddle), Marsha Nice Kelly (guitar) and Brian Stevenson (penny whistle) played Hornpipes (The […]
  • 🇺🇦 “Suite for Woodwind Quintet” by Scott Pender from Concert for Ukraine
    The dramatic opening selection of Pender’s Concert Supporting Ukraine was “Suite for Woodwind Quintet” composed by Scott Pender, performed by the Morpheus Chamber Players. We were fortunate to have the composer, Scott Pender, in the audience.
  • 🇺🇦 Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 by Ludwig van Beethoven from Concert for Ukraine
    Liz Sellers, Pianist/Organist at Pender UMC in Fairfax, VA, and violinist Anthony Shields performed Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 by Ludwig van Beethoven during Pender’s new Concert Series which began on April 23, 2022. The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24, is a four movement work for violin […]
  • 🇺🇦 Harp: En bateau (Sailing) from Concert for UkraineUkrainian National Anthem from Concert for Ukraine
    Brian Stevenson, Director of Music Ministries at Pender UMC in Fairfax, VA, performed En bateau (Sailing) from The Petite Suite, L 65, by Claude Debussy on the harp during Pender’s new Concert Series which began on April 23, 2022. Debussy’s music captures perfectly a mood of water-borne serenity and languor, opening with a kind of […]
  • 🇺🇦 The Widor Toccata Organ Symphony Movement V from Concert for Ukraine
    Sylvia Mulherin, organist at St. George’s UMC in Fairfax, VA, performed Toccata Organ Symphony Movement V by Charles-Marie Widor at Pender’s new Concert Series which began on April 23, 2022.
  • 🇺🇦 Ukrainian National Anthem from Concert for Ukraine
    What a fantastic concert this was. There will be move videos coming in the following days but this is a great start! This is the grand finale - the Ukrainian National Anthem arranged by Brian Stevenson, director of Music Ministries at Pender UMC. The Pender Concert Supporting Ukraine on April 23 featured Liz Sellers on […]
  • 🎷 Aerophone
    When I was a sixth grader, my elementary school was signing up kids for band. It was an earlier time so they even lent out instruments! I dearly wanted to learn to play the saxophone but my parents wouldn’t let me because I had the piano. Even though there would be no cost to them, […]
  • 💐 Easter Hymn: Thine Be the Glory
    More than 400 United Methodists from around the world have joined in singing the favorite Easter hymn “Thine Be the Glory.” Even in the midst of the pandemic, church members can celebrate Christ’s resurrection together.

Buy Me a Coffee


Tweets by UMassMom

May 2022
M T W T F S S
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031  
« Apr    

© O'Connor Online Piano Lessons 2022. Powered by WordPress