A year of ballet playing cards #01: Adage (As) – Mozart clarinet concerto
Get the piano score (free download) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards Mozart and the malleability of musical meaning This piece has a strange place in my…
How to transcribe from audio to piano score: technologies and process
Transcribing music from audio to score is something I’ve done for as long as I can remember, if you count those music dictation tests we had to do at school.…
Daniel Levitin on the perils of multitasking
“Instead of reaping the big rewards that come from sustained, focused effort, we instead reap empty rewards from completing a thousand little sugar-coated tasks.” That’s a quote from a great…
Happy 2015: A new year’s ramble about Black Swan and other ballet anomalies
As it’s the first day of a new year, I’ve decided to do something about one of the greatest annoyances in my list of ballet-pianist anxieties: the Black Swan female…
Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #23: Metre-less counts
An absence of metre is kind of cool. It’s like decorating a room white, having no books or furniture, and hanging Malevich’s White on White on the wall. You have…
Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #22: Inappropriate music choices
When I say inappropriate, I don’t mean in 4/4 rather than 3/4, or a barcarole instead of a mazurka. I mean inappropriate in the sense of “Oh no. Let the…