Always Good Advice!

Posted by MaryO on August 20, 2014

You only need to practice on the days that you eat 🙂

🎹 Super Mario Bros Theme for Piano
Pianist and composer Sonya Belousova celebrated 30 years of Super Mario Bros. with an epic piano medley on the world’s coolest piano. YouTube channel Player Piano had Belousova play the tribute to the late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata on a piano styled after a classic Nintendo Entertainment System. While the medley is good, it’s the […]
🎹 Day Five ~ Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice
We have established that regular practice routines will not happen without proactive piano parents. So, how can parents be proactive practice assistants even if they have never touched a piano? Day 5 The Youtube Liaison: As students get older, it can get harder for piano parents to be active in the home practice process. By […]
☦️ Hymn History: When Jesus the Healer Passed Through Galilee
“When Jesus the Healer Passed Through Galilee” was the closing hymn at Pender's 9:00 am Traditional Service on September 10, 2023. It was sung by Pender's Sanctuary choir, congregation and accompanied on piano by Heidi Jacobs.
✍️ 2023 Fall Piano Lesson Registration
Thank you for your interest in the O’Connor Music Studio! Available times are on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the day and after school for all ages and levels. There may be other times available if requested.
🎹 You Think Playing the Piano is Hard?
The appeal of the Fotoplayer to theatre owners was the fact that it took no musical skill to operate. The Fotoplayer would play the piano and pipe organ mechanically using an electric motor, an air pump, and piano rolls while the user of the Fotoplayer would follow the onscreen action while pulling cords, pushing buttons, […]
‼️ NEW! ‼️ The Cinderella Solos, V. U. Level X: A Modern Playbook in C Major and A Minor for Intermediate Piano. by Andrea Dow
Composed in the keys of C major and A minor (two-octave scales), The Cinderella Solos, V. U. Level X is a story told through powerful piano pieces and their breathtaking melodies. Your intermediate teen players will be captivated as they play through the soundtrack of this familiar tale, experienced in a brand new way! And, […]
📰 A Manuscript of Mozart’s Piano Sonata K331
The manuscript of Mozart’s A major piano sonata K331 has recently been discovered in Budapest. Having spent the majority of its life in the Budapest’s National Széchényi Library for decades, the coveted manuscript was rediscovered by Haydn scholar Balazs Mikusi.
🎹 Day Four ~ Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice
We have established that regular practice routines will not happen without proactive piano parents. So, how can parents be proactive practice assistants even if they have never touched a piano? Day 4. The Lead Vocalist: Most people are not too comfortable with breaking out into song in public, but they will happily sing in front […]
🎹 Lego Grand Piano
The Lego Ideas Grand Piano not only looks good on the shelf, it pairs with your phone to play back tunes. Someone from CNET writes: “I got my hands on the hard-to-find Grand Piano set from the Lego Ideas collection and put it together just for you. Watch as I assemble over 3,000 pieces, and […]
🎼 Pender Music: Davidsbündlertänze No. 2 and No. 1
On Sunday, August 13, 2023 Charlie Taylor played Davidsbündlertänze No. 2 and No. 1 by Schumann during the Offertory. Davidsbündlertänze (Dances of the League of David), Op. 6, is a group of eighteen pieces for piano composed in 1837 by Robert Schumann, who named them after his music society Davidsbündler.
📘 Musicophilia – Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
For those of us who obsess over the how and why of music, Sacks’ work on sound and its effects on the brain – and vice versa – was particularly illuminating. His book on the subject, “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,” remains essential reading for those who want to understand the mechanics of […]
🤡 Fun with Music
Fun music activities for children 0 thru 5 and a parent, grandparent or caregiver. There will be music for the children for 30 minutes, snack, play while the adults have breakfast and fellowship.
☦️ Hymn History: His Eye Is On The Sparrow
“His Eye Is On The Sparrow” was the postlude at Pender's 9:00 am Traditional Service on September 3, 2023. It was played on piano by Heidi Jacobs.
🎂 Happy Birthday, Clara Schumann!
Clara Schumann (1819-96) was much more than the wife of composer Robert Schumann. She was, quite simply, one of the greatest pianists of all time. A child prodigy, her technique and musicianship as a mature artist led to her being regarded as the equal of giants of the keyboard such a Franz Liszt, Sigismond Thalberg […]
🎹 Day Three ~ Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice
We have established that regular practice routines will not happen without proactive piano parents. So, how can parents be proactive practice assistants even if they have never touched a piano? Day 3. The Piano Piece Request Line: The most accomplished piano students always revisit pieces from their past to brush up on skills and to […]
🥵 9/11 – We Will Always Remember :(
I originally wrote this on 9/11/01… I, too, was stunned to hear the news this morning and continuing throughout the day. It was just something unbelievable. My husband and I were on a Land Rover 4X4 tour of the off-road areas of Barbados when we first got the news.
🥵 Remembering 9/11
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🎹 Steinway Pianos
It all begins with bare wood, rough and fragrant. Skilled craftsmen then use muscle, fine motor skills and magic to transform simple planks into magnificent instruments. In the bridge-notching process, the “bellymen” use tools they’ve constructed themselves, the better to execute this highly skilled operation.
🎼 Pender Music: When We Gather
Pender's Joy Ringers (handbells), Sanctuary Choir and Congregation perform "When We Gather" by Kath Wissinger. The Soloist was Brian Stevenson.
✍️ Registration is Open for Pender's Music Experience!
The Music Experience is a weekly 45 minute session for third through sixth grade children. Children can perform, read, compose, and experience music, no prior music knowledge necessary.

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