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Should certain repertoire be “off limits” to amateur pianists?
Can amateurs play the Goldberg Variations and other "professional" repertoire?
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Youth in Old Age: Janáček’s Mladi
Listen and feel the 'youthful mood' in the woodwind sextet Mladi!
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Read and see how many you can guess right!
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Nothing is Wasted
Time spent away from the instrument is also beneficial.
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Composers in the Court Room
Bach versus Longman & Lukey The first legal action for copyright infringement in classical music! -
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Perfect for Smaller Ensembles
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Written in 1987 as a competition piece, that Thème et Variations explores micro-form. The theme for the variations is only three bars long, but the variations that follow give it maximum expression through different realizations: expansive, expressive, flowing, meditative and violently agitated.