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Category Archives: Recitals / Performances

12 Tips for Memorizing Piano Music

By joy (admin) | Published: 2 March 2010
I’ll be the first one to admit: memorizing music does not come easily to me.  I really have to work at it, and it takes a lot of time.  Over the past couple of years, I have been reading and trying out everything I could find about memorizing music, and I’ve come up with a [...]
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30 Theme Ideas for the Music Studio Events

By joy (admin) | Published: 4 February 2010
Here’s a list of 30 theme ideas for music studio events!  Themes can be used as the studio theme for the school year, or for summer music camps, or for studio recitals.  If used for the studio theme for the whole year, there are a number of ways the theme can be incorporated: the incentive [...]
Also posted in Group Keyboard, Ideas, Improving as a Teacher, Incentive Programs, Inspiration, Motivation, Music History, Studio Class / Group Lessons, Topics in Teaching Piano, piano camps | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Checklist for Planning Student Recitals

By joy (admin) | Published: 29 September 2009
Student Recitals are great because they give students a goal to work towards, giving their lessons more direction and increasing the student’s motivation for making progress on their pieces.  Parents and grandparents also love them, because they get a chance to watch the students play their pieces onstage. Here’s a checklist for when you plan your [...]
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International Day of Collaborative Music: January 22, 2011

By joy (admin) | Published: 18 August 2009
Doesn’t seem like there’s a holiday for every day?  You know, we all hear about days like Chocolate Day (July 7).  And don’t tell me you missed National Creamsicle Day (August 14).  It’s true.  You really can find a holiday for every day.  (Check out this website, for starters).  It’s getting kind of ridiculous.  But here’s [...]
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Making gifts for music students

By joy (admin) | Published: 27 July 2009
Need ideas for what to give all your music students this year for Christmas or to reward them after a performance?  Trying to stay within a budget?  How about making grab bags full of music goodies! Your students are bound to be thrilled with this music-themed gift.   First, buy a package of cellophane favor bags – [...]
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Music + Imagination

By joy (admin) | Published: 29 May 2009
I often have students’ parents and grandparents tell me that they wish they had kept taking piano lessons.  I use this to encourage my current students, and tell them that it’s a gift to be able to sit down at an instrument and create music — a gift that can provide great pleasure to oneself [...]
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Print your own certificates

By joy (admin) | Published: 29 April 2009
Looking for a quick and affordable way to recognize your students for their accomplishments? Here’s a link to a site called www.dyetub.com that offers free, printable certificates, to give to your students. All you have to do is choose the design you like, enter your information, and print! There are a number of themes [...]
Also posted in By Student's Level, Ideas, Motivation, Resources / Links | 1 Comment

Congrats to Elizabeth!

By joy (admin) | Published: 25 April 2009
Congrats to my student, Elizabeth, who won the 3-part Invention division of the local Bach Competition earlier this year. Last Sunday afternoon she performed in the winners recital. It was her first entry in a piano competition, and she played fabulously!
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Program Notes from 2009

By joy (admin) | Published: 23 April 2009
My senior recital was last night!  Let me tell you, it feels GREAT to have that accomplishment behind me!   Here’s the program notes: Prelude & Fugue in C minor, from Book II WTC (BWV 871)………J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 “Tempest”………..Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)      Largo – Allegro    [...]
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Program Notes from 2008

By joy (admin) | Published: 20 April 2009
I’ve been working on the program notes for my senior recital, which is coming up….and thought I’d look up my program notes from my junior recital last year!  They’re kind of fun to read. Für Alina…………………………………………Arvo Pärt (1935-present)        Préludes, Book I……………………………Claude Debussy (1862-1918) …La danse de Puck …Minstrels
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