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by john aschenbrenner
If you want to make piano fun for a five year old, there are a few ways to accomplish that.
Never forget the age of your student. The younger they...
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by john aschenbrenner
BOGOYou can get a free ebook with every ebook you purchase.
1. Put two ebooks in your SHOPPING CART
2. Proceed to CHECKOUT
3. On the right you wi...
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by john aschenbrenner
Franz Schubert's immense outpouring of songs, sonatas, symphonies and chamber works netted him only about $12,500 (current dollars) during his l...
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by john aschenbrenner
One pleasant spring day in Paris, the great pianist Artur Rubinstein went to visit the famous composer Igor Stravinsky in his tiny music studio....
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by john aschenbrenner
Chopin was in love with novelist George Sand. Sand was a social climber who attracted every powerful man she could to further her social and lit...
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by john aschenbrenner
Ryan Seacrest's Piano Concerto #2 was the newest entry in the celebrity classical music sweepstakes underway with the San Francisco Symphony. I ...
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by john aschenbrenner
Artur Rubinstein, one of the most famous pianists of the twentieth century, was a vampire. That's what famed composer Igor Stravinsky called hi...
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by john aschenbrenner
"Why Brahms must have been fat" is a ridiculous subject, but the gritty reality of great artists interests me very much. There's something about...
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by john aschenbrenner
Why is America losing the culture race? You probably didn't know there is a culture war, so insulated are Americans from their own destruction. ...
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by john aschenbrenner
Take your children on a stimulating field trip. Take your kids to the opera! Remember, before television, there was only the opera. The opera, w...
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by john aschenbrenner
Why Johnny Can't Play Piano is a satire on a famous book in the 1950's, WHY JOHNNY CAN'T READ.
This book launched a public furor that was lar...
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by john aschenbrenner
America's musical culture is being lost in an avalanche of cheap television, movies and music. America's proving ground is the marketplace. We h...
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