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Happy Valentine's Day - 2010

Our last question was finally answered - There is a piece of program music (music that tells a story) that tells about a river and its trip through the countryside. HINT: The country is Czechoslavakia. The music changes as it passes different areas. Tell the composer and the name of the composition. - PS I hope someone was paying attention at the Halloween Master Class! - Hooray for Ashley - She answered the question perfectly - Smetana is the composer and The Moldau is the piece of music (known as My Fatherland as it tells the story of the country.

Our monthly question will be here until answered:
So...Here is the new question - Tell me the names of the performing groups of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8 - One would be a solo. 2 would be... and so on. Again, the first person to answer correctly wins a little prize!

Try to evaluate your playing every chance you get. Performances are always a good time to sit back and listen to what we are doing and why it sounds the way it does - both good and bad! If improvement is needed, let's do it - it you did well, you probably still need to improve somewhere. The minute we stop working hard and not trying to improve is the moment we stop progressing. Even after 50 years of playing the piano, I still need to improve and progress.

We will continue to learn about the Romantic period of music this year and particularly about Chopin as this is his 200th birthday year. Our Music Festival this year will honor him and his music. We have our "I Love Piano" master class coming up in February. We will remind ourselves why we love to play the piano! We should have lots and lots of fun!

The website is always a work in progress, but you should find lots of information here as well as instruction and links to fun games to help you with your piano education.

Be sure to email or call if you are not able to come to your lesson. Make-up days will be the last Saturday of each month by appointment only.