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: The Collaborative Piano Blog The piano in ensemble . The piano in real . life Pages Home About This Blog Subscribe About Chris Foley Contact Friday , May 28, 2010 Collaborative Piano Studies at Belhaven University The Music Department at Belhaven University offers a Bachelor of Arts with an Emphasis in Collaborative Piano and Piano Pedagogy About the : program The Emphasis in Collaborative Piano and Piano Pedagogy is one of Belhaven’s most popular university music programs for students who want to prepare themselves for a versatile career in piano accompaniment or teaching . The music industry has a high demand throughout the world for collaborative pianists and gifted instructors , and for pianists with a vocational desire to work in Christian missions , this emphasis provides a: : The Collaborative Piano Blog The piano in ensemble . The piano in real . life Pages Home About This Blog Subscribe About Chris Foley Contact Thursday , May 27, 2010 Call for Pianists : The 2010 Castleton Festival Orchestra If you're interested in spending your summer in the foothills of Viriginia learning orchestral piano rep with all your meals and accommodation paid for , you might be interested in applying for a newly created orchestral pianist position with the Castleton Festival Orchestra About the : orchestra The Castleton Festival was inaugurated in 2009 by Artistic Director Lorin Maazel . The orchestral program and symphonic concerts were among the most successful and popular elements of the Festival and will be expanded substantially for 2010. The Festival Orchestra will: The Collaborative Piano Blog The piano in ensemble . The piano in real . life Pages Home About This Blog Subscribe About Chris Foley Contact Thursday , May 27, 2010 Classical Singer Magazine's Salute to Vocal Coaches The June 2010 issue of Classical Singer Magazine is out now , which means it's time for CS's annual Salute to Vocal Coaches Vocal coaching-related articles in the current issue : include What's My Line by Greg Waxberg a look at the singer prompter relationship Classical Singer Coaches Speak by Catherine Corcoran interviews with vocal coaches Becoming an Opera Coach A Conversation with Dorothy Randall by Catherine Corcoran The 50 Week The Advice is Free by Olivia Giovetti words of wisdom from coaches of various stripes The June 2010 issue also contains the annual Coach and
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: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Saturday , May 22, 2010 When a Man knows This week , I thought , was going be devoted just to tying up loose end for the first performance of my opera When a Man Knows on June 13th sorting out the programme and that sort of thing . But there have been more exciting things going on . On Friday I was interviewed by Classical Music Magazine for their premiere of the Fortnight column . So watch out for the next issue due out in 2 weeks . time Add to this we have been offered a spot at the Tete-a-Tete opera festival at the: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Friday , May 21, 2010 Recent CD Review My review of Caroline Sampson's recital Not Just Dowland on Wigmore Hall Live , is here Riches to be found here Posted by Robert H at 7:41 AM Labels : cd review 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom When a Man knows When a man knows Premiere June 13th Subscribe To Posts Atom Posts Comments Atom Comments Labels ballet review 7 book review 17 cd news 14 cd review 236 Competition 1 concert review 88 diary 179 feature article 34 music: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Tuesday , May 18, 2010 Rutland Boughton This year is the 50th anniversary of the death of Rutland Boughton . Unlike 2008, which saw an immense resurgence in performances of music by RVW as a result of the 50th anniversary of his death , the response to the Boughton anniversary has been more . muted The Rutland Boughton Music Trust are organising a number of events , mainly related to song , chamber music and orchestral pieces . But Boughton was a notable opera composer and it is his operas which seem to be missing from: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Sunday , May 16, 2010 Recent CD Review My review of Martin Best's 1982 recording , The Dante Troubadours is here on MusicWeb . International Best's performances are convincing , vividly communicative . Very seductive . Posted by Robert H at 9:03 PM Labels : cd review 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom When a Man knows When a man knows Premiere June 13th Subscribe To Posts Atom Posts Comments Atom Comments Labels ballet review 7 book review 17 cd news 14 cd review 236: The Collaborative Piano Blog The piano in ensemble . The piano in real . life Pages Home About This Blog Subscribe About Chris Foley Contact Sunday , May 16, 2010 Mammoth Ivory for Piano Keys I just learned a fascinating tidbit from Susan Tomes' Out of Silence : A Pianist's Yearbook ivory from dug-up mammoth tusks can be crafted into piano keys . What's more , since mammoths are extinct , their ivory is legal , unlike that of their pachyderm cousins . Susan : writes I'm astonished to think of slivers of deep-frozen tusk from thousands of years ago finding their way onto piano keyboards for the performance of Chopin and Liszt , and incidentally giving a fresh slant to that hackneyed phrase , a mammoth . programme' Pianists and piano technicians : do any of you have any experience with: The Collaborative Piano Blog The piano in ensemble . The piano in real . life Pages Home About This Blog Subscribe About Chris Foley Contact Sunday , May 16, 2010 Fundraiser for Noe Valley Chamber Music May 23 in San Francisco On Sunday , May 23rd at 4pm , San Francisco's Noe Valley Chamber Music will be presenting its 2010 gala and silent auction featuring tenor Thomas Glenn pictured at right Composer , pianist , and Tapestry LibLab alum Jack Perla will be performing some of his recent work with soprano Melody Moore , mezzo soprano Erin Neff , and baritone Torleff Borsting . Jack sends the following information I'll be playing the piano , and we'll present some of my Concert Arias , and scenes from Love Hate . A special bonus Rob Bailis , librettist for Love Hate , will play some of my: The Collaborative Piano Blog The piano in ensemble . The piano in real . life Pages Home About This Blog Subscribe About Chris Foley Contact Wednesday , May 12, 2010 Free Rhythm Worksheet Set from Wendy Stevens A set of free rhythm worksheets from Wendy Stevens at ComposeCreate.com covers a wide range of concepts , including 8th notes , 16th notes , triplets , syncopation , polyrhythms , and compound time . You can print them out , email them to your students , or teach them directly from your laptop . The two-voice drills are particularly interesting , and you can use them as either a two-handed exercise , teacher student duet , or as a clap-and-stomp . Posted by Chris Foley at 9:41 AM Labels : Piano Pedagogy Resources 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to The press release for the new opera is now out here.
: The Collaborative Piano Blog The piano in ensemble . The piano in real . life Pages Home About This Blog Subscribe About Chris Foley Contact Monday , May 10, 2010 Opera To Go 2010 Production Photos Photo of Peter McGillivray and Xin Wang by Brian Mosoff Photos from the recent production of Tapestry New Opera Works' Opera To Go 2010 are now up on the Tapestry blog for those of you who missed the run in late March , or for those of you who saw the production , but still need to relive the action . Posted by Chris Foley at 9:24 PM Labels : Tapestry New Opera Works Toronto 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom More Articles Monster List of 100+ Resources on the Collaborative Piano Blog 31 Days to Better Practicing : The Complete Series The: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Sunday , May 09, 2010 YCAT I got a leaflet through the post advertising the Final auditions at the Wigmore Hall on May 21st for the Young Concert Artists Trust . 8 Young performers or performing groups will be performing . Interestingly there are two accordion players , so perhaps this instrument is making a come-back . Artists who pass through the auditions go onto the YCAT list for the year , getting showcase concerts and other performance opportunities . Do go along if you are free , to hear some of the names of the: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Saturday , May 08, 2010 Proms Not being a keen devotee of 19th century symphonic music , I have not found this year's Prom's programme particularly enticing . Still , it is a prime festival if you want to hear Mahler's symphonies . Unfortunately , the only one of them that we really wanted to book for was the 8th , which had sold out before I could get onto the . web-site Unfortunately , I could not spend Tuesday morning sitting at my computer waiting for my position in the queue to go down from 4000 It was only at: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Friday , May 07, 2010 Recent CD Review A couple more reviews from the Nimbus back catalogue , both Christchurch Cathedral Choir under Stephen . Darlington First off , Palestrina's Missa Dum complerentur is here A perfect example of the English Cathedral sound and beautifully performed . And a liturgical reconstruction using Taverner's Missa Mater Christi is here Both reviews are on MusicWeb . International Excellent performance of Taverner's likeable mass a disc that everyone should try Posted by Robert H at 7:18 AM: The Collaborative Piano Blog The piano in ensemble . The piano in real . life Pages Home About This Blog Subscribe About Chris Foley Contact Wednesday , May 05, 2010 Lente Chute for Toy Piano More toy piano awesomeness : from the MySpace page of Toy piano musica aka amergtuileztyi on YouTube , here is Lente chute for toy piano , with video by SweepAndMopp Thanks , James For more toy pianos on the Collaborative Piano Blog , check out The Ultimate Guide to the Toy Piano Scene Posted by Chris Foley at 9:50 PM Labels : Toy Piano Videos 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom More Articles Monster List of 100+ Resources on the Collaborative Piano Blog 31 Days to Better Practicing : The Complete Series The Extreme Piano Guide or 30+1 Ideas to: The Collaborative Piano Blog The piano in ensemble . The piano in real . life Pages Home About This Blog Subscribe About Chris Foley Contact Wednesday , May 05, 2010 Amazing Piano-flinging Trebuchet Video Look at the air time on that piano this is the farthest I've ever seen one being flung by a : trebuchet Gravity in action on the Collaborative Piano : Blog Piano-flinging Trebuchet at Burning Man 2007 Another Insane Piano-flinging Trebuchet Video Beware of Falling Pianos The 2009 MIT Piano Drop Posted by Chris Foley at 5:00 PM Labels : Just For Fun Videos 1 comments : packfiller said . If only Jimi Hendrix played piano . 5:08 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom More Articles Monster List of 100+ Resources on the Collaborative Piano Blog 31 Days: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Saturday , May 01, 2010 Monteverdi Vespers from the OAE On Tuesday we went to the Queen Elizabeth Hall for the Orchestra of the Age of Englightenment's performance of Monteverdi's Vespers of the Blessed Virgin from 1610. OAE could probably attracted a pretty decent audience in the Festival Hall so it was heartening to find that they were performing in the smaller . QEH Despite the apparent links with Venice , Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers were written whilst he was still at Mantua and would have been created with the smaller: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Saturday , May 01, 2010 Stephen Oliver at 60 Amazingly Stephen Oliver would have been 60 this year . He was so prolific , so early , that even though he died young in 1992, he created a great deal and managed to fit so much in so one feels that he was . older The Norwich and Norfolk Festival are celebrating Oliver with an event at the Norwich Playhouse on May 9th , which will feature Oliver's music for the RSC adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby Also included will be Oliver's mini opera , A Man of Feeling I must confess that: . skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Saturday , May 01, 2010 Quiet and Contemplative Review of Testament of Dr . Cranmer My cd The Testament of Dr Cranmer has cropped up in the May round-up on MusicWeb . International MUSICWEB DOWNLOAD ROUNDUP MAY 2010 : Discovery of the Month I came across Robert Hugill’s music by accident . It had been brought to my attention that I hadn’t included any Divine Art recordings in my Roundups for a long time , so I was browsing the Naxos Music Library to see and hear what was available . Having listened to the first work on: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Saturday , May 01, 2010 Recent CD Review Another couple of reviews of the Nimbus back catalogue . Arias for soprano and trumpet from Helen Field and John Wallace is reviewed here Interesting and imaginatively programmed And Rachmaninov's Liturgy of St . John Chrysostom from Kansas is reviewed here Both reviews are on MusicWeb . International Even if you like this account I would recommend getting another which responds more positively to the drama and vigour of Rachmaninov's setting Posted by Robert H at 9:23 AM Labels :: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Monday , April 26, 2010 Review of Der Freischütz My review of Weber's Der Freischütz performed by Midsummer Opera is here on Music and Vision subscription site Posted by Robert H at 7:21 AM Labels : opera review 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom When a Man knows When a man knows Premiere June 13th Subscribe To Posts Atom Posts Comments Atom Comments Labels ballet review 7 book review 17 cd news 14 cd review 236 Competition 1 concert review 88 diary 179 feature: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Sunday , April 25, 2010 Recent CD Reviews My review of the Naxos recording of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda is here Nowhere near a library recommendation . A name new to me a collection of Lita Grier's songs is reviewed here If the alternative , tonal pathways of late 20th century music interest you then do try this disc . And a disc devoted to the music of Robert White is review here performed by an excellent new group called . Gallicantus Gallicantus make a strong case for performance by a vocal ensemble , with nice: skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Sunday , April 25, 2010 London Festival of Contemporary Church Music The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music opens in a couple of weeks time , on May 8th . Based , as usual , at St . Pancras Church , the festival has events in churches such as the Temple , St . Paul's Cathedral and Southward Cathedral . The music covers quite a wide range including Gabriel Jackson , Judith Bingham , Francis Grier , Anthony Pitts , Patric Standford , Simon Brown and many others , with premieres of pieces by Elizabeth Winters ,skip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Saturday , April 24, 2010 Reading this month's Opera magazine , there's a review of Menotti's The Saint of Bleeker Street from Marseille . As usual with performances in English of operas without any native speakers , you are curious well I am about how successful the diction was . In this case the reviewer Joel Kasow commented favourably on the clarity of the enunciation which is nice to . know Also in the magazine , I spotted a comment about Rene Kollo one of my all time favourite Siegfrieds making his debut as Aegisth inskip to main skip to sidebar Planet Hugill Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer , Robert Hugill News , Views and opera reviews , CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new . music Saturday , April 17, 2010 On Wednesday we heard a preview the programme for Charles Owen's Wigmore Hall recital which takes place on Wed 21st April . He opened with a strong account of Bach's 4th Partita following it with three Faure Barcarolles Nos . 1, 4 and 5 and Debussy's Images , series one Reflets dans l'eau , Hommage a Rameau , Mouvement An exuberant account of Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel concluded a meaty and involving programme . 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Right now me and G are fighting over the last two thin-mint cookies, part of our strict health regimen. I don’t feel too guilty about stuffing my face with these little minty pillows of delight because just a few days ago I acted on the suggestions from this post, and did this run:
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