How to Listen to Debussy’s Sublime “Sarabande”
November has been bustling! It started with a combined student recital and clarinet choir concert that I organized and performed in, followed by a week-long staycation for me where I got a chance to...
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Bonus Features: The Alcotts
Finally, the bonus features post! I hadn’t forgotten that I wanted to do this; sometimes “real life” gets in the way. Here’s another video of the piano version. Part of the reason I chose...
Travel to Concord with Ives’s “The Alcotts”
After a lot of band and orchestra music, let’s move on to something completely different: a piano solo. Specifically, The Alcotts by Charles Ives, an American composer who lived from 1874 – 1954. He...
Appreciating Music: Can We Learn to Hear?
Thanks to NPR reporting about this study, I came across this article: Study: Hearing Music as Beautiful Is a Learned Trait – Lindsay Abrams – The Atlantic. I found it fascinating, and quite apropos...