Book Description
'Pop-up Pianos' documents a two-week musical adventure in New York City. Lekha Singh travels through all five boroughs to document public delight in 88 pianos placed outdoors for all to play.
Author : Monica Yunus
Publisher : Damiani Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9788862082334
'Pop-up Pianos' documents a two-week musical adventure in New York City. Lekha Singh travels through all five boroughs to document public delight in 88 pianos placed outdoors for all to play.
Author : Andrew McMahon
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1648960758
From beloved indie musician Andrew McMahon comes a searingly honest and beautifully written memoir about the challenges and triumphs of his life and career, as seen through the lens of his personal connection to three pianos. Andrew McMahon grew up in sunny Southern California as a child prodigy, learning to play piano and write songs at a very early age, stunning schoolmates and teachers alike with his gift for performing and his unique ability to emotionally connect with audiences. McMahon would go on to become the lead singer and songwriter for Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin, and to release his debut solo album, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, in 2014. But behind this seemingly optimistic and quintessentially American story of big dreams come true lies a backdrop of overwhelming challenges that McMahon has faced—from a childhood defined by his father's struggle with addiction to his very public battle with leukemia in 2005 at the age of twenty-three, as chronicled in the intensely personal documentary Dear Jack. Overcoming those odds, McMahon has found solace and hope in the things that matter most, including family, the healing power of music and the one instrument he's always turned to: his piano. Three Pianos takes readers on a beautifully rendered and bitter-sweet American journey, one filled with inspiration, heartbreak, and an unwavering commitment to shedding our past in order to create a better future.
Author : Jeremy Baras
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1119145910
"PopUp Republic delves into the $50-billion dollar pop-up industry and includes stories, examples, anecdotes, case studies and a how-to guide of how to create a successful pop-up. Based on Baras' broad experience and unparalleled knowledge, PopUp Republic covers all aspects of pop-ups, including an evaluation of the U.S. vs. European/world pop-up markets; tools needed to create successful pop-ups; what constitutes a pop-up; the costs and benefits of pop-ups; what permits, insurance and licenses are needed to open a pop-up; and much more. More than just an A-to-Z guide on how to launch and operate a successful pop-up, PopUp Republic shows how pop-ups are disrupting the retail, dining and entertainment industries in this country and around the world"--
Author : Fred Kern
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1476828598
(Educational Piano Library). Unit 1 of Book 3 begins by introducing eighth notes in 4/4 and 2/4 time. Swing eighths are also presented in the first half of the book. Folk, jazz, classical, and contemporary selections provide students with an interesting variety of repertoire. The second half of Book 3 , teaches relative and parallel major/minor five-finger patterns, and students learn to improvise their own songs using these basic patterns.
Author : Hal Leonard
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 1996-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780793562695
This General MIDI disk correlates directly to the pieces in Piano Lessons Book 2. All track numbers for use with the GM disk are clearly indicated in the book, and are included with the GM disk packet as well. These fully-orchestrated accompanimnets by Hal Leonard Student Piano Library method author Phillip Keveren are a delightful way to enhance students' lessons, and are a sure way to guarantee practice success! The Piano Lessons GM also corresponds to the activities found in Piano Practice Games Book 2.
Author : Chuan C. Chang
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2016-01-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781523287222
This is the first book that teaches piano practice methods systematically, based on mylifetime of research, and containing the teachings of Combe, material from over 50 pianobooks, hundreds of articles, and decades of internet research and discussions with teachersand pianists. Genius skills are identified and shown to be teachable; learning piano can raiseor lower your IQ. Past widely taught methods based on false assumptions are exposed;substituting them with efficient practice methods allows students to learn piano and obtainthe necessary education to navigate in today's world and even have a second career. See http://www.pianopractice.org/
Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545910390
Convinced that there is something creepy about his new piano teacher, Jerry soon hears terrifying stories about Dr. Shreek's music school and students who never completed their lesson alive.
Author : Stuart Isacoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0307701425
A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own. With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners. He illuminates the groundbreaking music of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, and Debussy. He analyzes the breathtaking techniques of Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Arthur Rubinstein, and Van Cliburn, and he gives musicians including Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, and Vladimir Horowitz the opportunity to discuss their approaches. Isacoff delineates how classical music and jazz influenced each other as the uniquely American art form progressed from ragtime, novelty, stride, boogie, bebop, and beyond, through Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Cecil Taylor, and Bill Charlap. A Natural History of the Piano distills a lifetime of research and passion into one brilliant narrative. We witness Mozart unveiling his monumental concertos in Vienna’s coffeehouses, using a special piano with one keyboard for the hands and another for the feet; European virtuoso Henri Herz entertaining rowdy miners during the California gold rush; Beethoven at his piano, conjuring healing angels to console a grieving mother who had lost her child; Liszt fainting in the arms of a page turner to spark an entire hall into hysterics. Here is the instrument in all its complexity and beauty. We learn of the incredible craftsmanship of a modern Steinway, the peculiarity of specialty pianos built for the Victorian household, the continuing innovation in keyboards including electronic ones. And most of all, we hear the music of the masters, from centuries ago and in our own age, brilliantly evoked and as marvelous as its most recent performance. With this wide-ranging volume, Isacoff gives us a must-have for music lovers, pianists, and the armchair musician.
Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1540028607
(Easy Piano Songbook). 50 well-known songs that beginning pianists can play with just four chords, including: Brave * Cecilia * Despacito * Fields of Gold * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) * Ho Hey * I'm Yours * Let It Be * Mean * Peaceful Easy Feeling * Roar * Stand by Me * Toes * Viva La Vida * With or Without You * You Raise Me Up * and more.
Author : Kurt Palka
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0771071280
The suspenseful, emotionally resonant, and utterly compelling story of what brings an enigmatic French woman to a small Canadian town in the 1930s, a woman who has found depths of strength in dark times and comes to discover sanctuary at last. For readers of The Imposter Bride, The Cellist of Sarajevo, Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, and The Red Violin. Helene Giroux arrives alone in St. Homais on a winter day. She wears good city clothes and drives an elegant car, and everything she owns is in a small trunk in the back seat. In the local church she finds a fine old piano, a Molnar, and she knows just how fine it is, for her family had manufactured these pianos before the Great War. Then her mother's death and war forces her to abandon her former life. The story moves back and forth in time as Helene, settling into a simple life, playing the piano for church choir, recalls the extraordinary events that brought her to this place. They include the early loss of her soldier husband and the reappearance of an old suitor who rescues her and her daughter, when she is most desperate; the journeys that very few women of her time could even imagine, into the forests of Indochina in search of ancient treasures and finally, and fatefully, to the Canadian north. When the town policeman confronts her, past and present suddenly converge and she must face an episode that she had thought had been left behind forever.