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Harriette Brower, Piano Mastery

Harriette Brower’s 1915 book, Piano Mastery, is online in a public domain Project Gutenberg edition.  She recounts interviews she did with about 20 master pianists and teachers (e.g., Busoni, Paderewski, Goodson), includes essays on interpretation by William Mason and William Sherwood, and offers her own essay on technique (from hand position through practicing, memorizing, tone [...]

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2008 10 25 jmm Composers
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Another novel: The Piano Teacher

I recently read Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher.  I previously had seen the arresting and controversial movie based on it, starring Isabelle Huppert.  Jelinek is Nobel Prize winning novelist who writes in the post-war Germanic realist-nihilist style, often with graphic and disturbing sexuality.
As a novel for pianists, this one disappoints. The main character Erika Kohut, [...]

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2008 09 28 jmm Comments (0)

The great pianists on YouTube

The Great Pianists on YouTube: don’t drop the piano

2007 07 23 jmm performers Comments (0)