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Arts in Review -- Cultural Commentary: The Power of Pedagogy
For in addition to my career as a concert pianist I have been teaching piano since I was in my 20s. Go to the opera, then you will learn how to phrase a melody!\" To turn a piano, a percussion instrument -- felt hammers hitting steel strings -- into a singing one should be one of the primary goals of a pianist.
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Arts in Review -- Music: Music for Troubled Souls
\"Kleeburn\" referred to Van Cliburn, who two years before had won the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, in the process becoming \"their boy\" -- in their eyes there was only one great American pianist and they had discovered him.
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How Music Soothes the Troubled Soul; From the strife in Selma to the tension of the Cold War, a personal account of the power of music
In 1960, at the height of the Cold War, I was asked by the State Department to open the first formal Cultural Exchange between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
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Music Therapy: A Healing Art
In this country, music therapy began to develop as a profession during World War I, and in World War II music was incorporated into the Army's Reconditioning Program under direct supervision of medical personnel, the first official recognition of music as a therapeutic aid by the military. Today there are more than 5,000 certified music therapists in the U.S., and more than 70 colleges and universities offer music-therapy programs treating everything from posttraumatic stress disorder to Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and pain.
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A Healing Art
In this country, music therapy began to develop as a profession during World War I, and in World War II music was incorporated into the Army's Reconditioning Program under direct supervision of medical personnel, the first official recognition of music as a therapeutic aid by the military. Today there are more than 5,000 certified music therapists in the U.S., and more than 70 colleges and universities offer music-therapy programs treating everything from posttraumatic stress disorder to Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and pain.
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Music: When Two Makes Perfect
(The exceptions are the bass keys, which have either two strings or one.) Pressing the soft pedal shifts the hammers so only two of the three strings are touched, giving the piano a much softer tone. Prior to my first rehearsal, the hall's official piano tuner placed a small lever under the keyboard that, when pushed, shifted the hammers a shorter distance than if the soft pedal were pressed, playing on 2 1/2 strings instead of two.
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Classical Music: Nurturing Creativity In the Next Generation
The budding pianist's lessons shape the concert artist the public later hears. Over the course of my career as a student, performer and teacher, I've realized there is no \"right way\" to teach the piano.
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