).Bird song at the beginning of the piece is the first hint that all is going as it should be going – and it is NONE of OUR doing.Sunrise in the hands of a higher power.We have added
She’s in the gifted stream at school, participates in swim team and basketball team, takes clarinet lessons, and attends a computer-oriented STEM program on Saturdays. “I had more of a Little Rascals childhood,” Charlotte’s mother says. “My girlfriends and I would use sheets hanging on...
I am an adult beginner piano player. I’m learning scales at the moment. My end goal is to be able to sight read relatively well. I have some music background. I played the clarinet all throughout elementary, middle and high school. So, treble clef is pretty easy for me. But ba$s...
(bottle opener, burner, coffee machine, spoon, knife, rasp, sieve, plate, pot and lemon squeezer), musical instruments (flute, electric bass, violin, guitar, harp, clarinet, piano, harmonica, trumpet and Xylophone), and furniture (bench, bed, stool, commode, shelf, wardrobe, armchair, ...
This morning, I spent some time on the phone with Ramona, one of the clarinetists who will be part of the ensemble at the music teachers recital next month. I’m not sure what the deal is with her . . . maybe she is technologically challenged (she is of retirement age), maybe she...
I was happily singing “The Orchestra Song” in fourth grade music class, when my music teacher sarcastically snipped, “You are not a violin!” He laughed and instructed me to try singing the clarinet part quietly. The incident ranks very high on my list of most humiliating moments. ...
Um, is that when my colleague Jonathan Gunn, great clarinet player, used to be principal clarinet Cincinnati Symphony, just wonderful artist and lovely teacher playing this little etude. And, uh, the first thing he did is he played it, all the way through with inflection. You know, he pl...
Goldsmith began making music in fourth grade in Cleveland, Ohio with the clarinet as his first instrument. His string ability was extended to the banjo, bass and mandolin in addition to guitar. He learned the basics of guitar from John Stebal and the late Carl Poliafico. He joined the ...