You’re Never Too Old

Posted by MaryO on March 31, 2012

My 88 year young Mom and my 80 year young duet partner play piano duets today.

🎵 Bach: Toccata and Fugue in d minor
Johann Sebastian Bach’s towering monument of organ music, with its deep sense of foreboding, will forever be associated with Halloween. Get a free copy of the sheet music at IMSLP or borrow a copy from the O’Connor Music Studio. I have this arranged for organ, piano, duet, 2-piano, simplified… It’s also available in Piano Maestro, […]
🎵 Summer Camp: I Just Can't Wait To Be King
I Just Can't Wait To Be King from The Lion King Available in three versions, it can be found in the new ‘Summer Camp’ category in the Library or tap the button on the main menu. Tune in each week to see which other free songs will be released in Summer Camp to keep your […]
🎵 Ellmenreich: Spinning Song ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Today’s piece is the other one of two pieces that are so often played incorrectly that they have the distinction of being banned from competition in Northern Virginia Piano Teacher competitions.
🎵 Dvořák: Humoresque #7 ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Humoresques Op. 101 (B. 187), is a piano cycle by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, written during the summer of 1894. One writer says “the seventh Humoresque is probably the most famous small piano work ever written after Beethoven’s Für Elise.
🎵 Believe in Yourself! ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Today’s assignment is a little different but it shows how determination, hard work, practice and believing in yourself can take you a long way. Inverary and District Pipe Band didn’t sound so great when they started out but…
🎵 On the Bridge of Avignon ~ Daily Listening Assignments
The Bridge of Avignon or Pont d’Avignon in French, is a famous medieval bridge in the town of Avignon, in southern France.
🎵 McCartney: The Beatles ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Today’s is a cheat post, partly because I ran out of time. I’ve watched this video several times in the past few days. It’s a great overview of the Beatles music. And, yes, I have books of their music arranged for piano, if you want to play anything.
🎵 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten pieces (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for the piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The suite is Mussorgsky’s most famous piano composition and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists.
🎵 Mozart: Turkish March ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Today we listen to the third movement Mozart’s Piano Sonata No.11 III (Turkish March) with just a bit of the first movement near the end. The Turkish influence on western music came through the Turkish military band music (Mehter), which was at the time was the only military band in Europe. It was once popular […]
🎵 Summer Camp:Into The Unknown
Into The Unknown from from ‘Frozen 2’ Available in three versions, it can be found in the new ‘Summer Camp’ category in the Library or tap the button on the main menu. Tune in each week to see which other free songs will be released in Summer Camp to keep your students sharp. And remember, […]
🎵 Sibelius: Finlandia ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Finlandia, Op. 26, is a tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It was written in 1899 and revised in 1900. The piece was composed for the Press Celebrations of 1899, a covert protest against increasing censorship from the Russian Empire, and was the last of seven pieces performed as an accompaniment to a […]
🎵 Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German title means “a little serenade”, though it is often rendered more literally but less accurately as “a little night music.”
🎵 Offenbach: Can-Can Daily Listening Assignments
Today’s listening assignment is Can-can from “Orpheus in the Underworld” by Jacques Offenbach. This piece is very often in early method books because of the descending C Major scale. Can you find it?
🌞 First Day of Summer
In the United States and the rest of the northern hemisphere, the first day of the summer season is the day of the year when the Sun is farthest north (on June 20th or 21st). This day is known as the Summer Solstice
🎵 Mozart: The Magic Flute ~ Daily Listening Assignments
‘The Magic Flute’ (German name: Die Zauberflöte) is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final opera, and it contains one of the most well-known arias in music. But what is ‘The Magic Flute’ all about?
💤 Day of Rest ~ Daily Listening Assignment
Sunday, a day of rest.
🎵Beethoven: Ode to Joy ~ Daily Listening Assignments
“Ode to Joy” was written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia. A slightly revised version appeared in 1808, changing two lines of the first and omitting the last stanza.
🎵 Pachelbel: Canon in D ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Today’s assignment is a very popular piece by Johann Pachelbel called Canon in D. A canon is a technique that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e.g., quarter rest, one measure, etc.). The initial melody is called the leader, while the imitative melody, which is […]
🎵 Summer Camp is officially in session!
Disney hit “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” Available in three versions, it can be found in the new ‘Summer Camp’ category in the Library or tap the button on the main menu. Tune in each week to see which other free songs will be released in Summer Camp to keep your students sharp. And remember, […]
🎵 Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor ~ Daily Listening Assignments
Today is the anniversary of Grieg‘s Birthday in 1843 so… “In the Hall of the Mountain King” is a piece of orchestral music composed for the sixth scene of act 2 in Henrik Ibsen’s 1867 play Peer Gynt. It was originally part of Opus 23 but was later extracted as the final piece of Peer […]

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