To celebrate, there will be no piano lessons – although that’s because it’s Tuesday. 🙂
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Does Your Student Use Piano Maestro?
JoyTune’s next webinar is dedicated to parents!
The webinar will cover ways to build a better bond with students’ parents and overcome obstacles to iPad usage in music learning.
Tune into the webinar here: http://welcome.joytunes.com/webinar/ March 11 at 10 MST (noon in Virginia)
— with Nicole Douglas.
Icy Weather and Piano Lessons
Fairfax County has just closed school again, so, technically, I’m not teaching. But it’s been too many Mondays off.
So, I leave it up to you if you want to come for lessons today or not.
Please let me know if you intend to be here today – or not.
Thanks!
My husband was out last night and said that the roads were ok but our driveway was icy. He used the last of our salt but didn’t know if it would be melted or not.
Sooner or later there WILL be another Monday piano lesson, I hope.
Stay warm, dry and keep practicing.
Snow Day – February 17, 2015
No lessons today due to the snowy weather.
Keep practicing!
Those using Piano Maestro may find a new assignment for today 🙂
Piano Maestro: Two New FREE Valentine’s Songs!
Students will enjoy learning to play smash hit “Sugar” by Maroon 5 and “Dancing Cheek to Cheek” by Fred Astaire just in time for Valentine’s Day!
Each song has multiple versions for all skill levels.
Check out these new songs in the Pop & Rock category in the Library.
Students in the O’Connor Music Studio have free access to Piano Maestro for as long as they are students here.
Piano Maestro on Fox News
JoyTunes CEO, Yuval Kaminka, appears on Fox 5 News at 5 WNYW to discuss Piano Maestro, and the tremendous impact it is having on children’s (and adult’s!) piano practice!
Students in the O’Connor Music Studio have free access to Piano Maestro for as long as they are students.
Snow Day!
No lessons today due to the snowy weather.
Keep practicing!
Those using Piano Maestro may find a new assignment for today 🙂
Piano Maestro Update!
It’s now going to be even easier for students’ parents to get involved with Piano Maestro.
The author of Piano Maestro, JoyTunes, will automatically send parents an email which will update them on their child’s progress through engaging content including the week’s highlights, fun trivia facts related to songs played, skills learned and shared moments.
Please take advantage of this great new feature so that your student can get the most of out of piano lessonsl
Local Musical Events this Sunday!
The Pender UMC Choir, Handbells, Orchestra and Liturgical Dancer will present Joel Raney’s Christmas Cantata, Celebrate the Season, at 8:15 and 11:00 am on Sunday, December 7.
Contemporary and upbeat, this superb cantata celebrates the excitement, joy and true meaning of the Christmas season. Joel Raney retells the Christmas story through a unique partnering of creative, original songs with traditional carols. Most of the originals incorporate strains from traditional carols, weaving a tapestry with just enough familiarity to warm our hearts and with enough originality to surprise our ears and lift our spirits. The styles he uses range from traditional classical, to jazz and everything in between.
At Pender’s neighbor, Christ Presbyterian:
The Cathedral Brass will perform “A Cathedral Brass Christmas” at Christ Presbyterian Church, Fairfax, on Sunday, December 7th at 4:00 pm. The concert features beloved Christmas carols and other holiday favorites, including ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, narrated by Alan Cole.
Other selections includeLeRoy Anderson’s Suite of Carols, Antonio DiLorenzo’s The Toymaker, and Alfred Reed’s Joyeux Noel. Jazz trumpeter Roger Rossi, former member of the Army Blues, will be featured. The concert is free; voluntary donations are gratefully accepted.
Cathedral Brass is a brass choir based at Vienna Presbyterian Church and performs under the direction of L. Thomas Vining.
Steinway Will Relocate in Midtown
I found this article from the New York Times very interesting about the Steinway Store moving.
The little room where Rachmaninoff practiced, the famous basement where up-and-coming virtuosos catnapped under the pianos, the palatial rotunda conceived by the architecture firm that designed Grand Central Terminal — Steinway & Sons is saying goodbye to all that and moving to a corner of a 1970s office building 14 blocks away.
Steinway sold its 1920s building on West 57th Street in 2012, with a deadline to leave by the end of December. Executives of the piano company are now close to signing a 15-year lease for 40,000 square feet of space at 1133 Avenue of the Americas, at West 43rd Street.
via Changing Keys, Steinway Piano Store Will Relocate in Midtown – NYTimes.com.
We didn’t know it at the time but when my son, Michael, and I practiced there in August, we were the last people to use their practice rooms.
When we play Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart arranged for 2 pianos November 30, we will be the last people to play in the old Steinway Hall.
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