musing on music & performance
posted by Heather Heise at 11:26 AM
I am a writer and classically trained pianist. I like Mahler, owls, vintage Samsonite, and science fiction films.
Have some piano music you'd like me to read through? Know of any concerts, performances or recent recordings I should hear? Extra seat in your box at the opera? Need a page turner? Yearning to play four-hand piano music but short two hands? Curious to read what I might write about a certain piece or performance? Just want to go dancing?
I welcome inquiries about collaboration, performance, and writing. Send scores, recordings, concert tickets, chocolates, champagne, postcards & the like to:
3011 W Fairview Avenue.
I also accept messages via missed connections columns, in lost bottles, or scrawled on the inside covers of books left to be found in secondhand shops.
This is my blogchalk:
United States, California, Oakland, English, Heather, creative-experimental-classical music, piano, performance, the art song.
1 Comments:
Oddly, the day I posted this, I had a conversation with a friend about French music, piano solos and songs, and how whenever I took that repertoire to my lessons at the Conservatory, my teacher would send me home early. He had little to say except [through clenched lips], "This is right up your alley." (I suspect he did not care much for Debussy and Fauré, but it was true that I feel at home with their works.) I said, "I feel like I'm not doing enough! I should think about the soft pedal, or about half pedal colorations, or, you know, that staccato/legato thing...raindrops in the gauze..." And my friend interjected, "But no! That's the thing! Everyone always tries to do too much to French music. So if you say that your style is "doing nothing" ...well, you're perfect to accompany these songs!"
Well...ok!
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