The pandemic was my excuse to abandon piano lessons.
It wasn’t that I wouldn’t practice or didn’t enjoy pounding away on the keyboard. The problem was that my piano teacher, Tatiana, is a perfectionist. She wanted me to get it exactly and precisely right and so I practiced the same piece over and over. She would smile as I did my lessons but it was a str ... Show More
Nov 24
The Health of the Consumer
<p>I was watching a football game over the weekend and I saw a giant lineman go down. He was in obvious pain and hobbled, assisted and very slowly, to the sideline. The TV commentators, to my amazement, said he didn’t look too bad and he was probably healthy enough to return to t ... Show More
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Nov 17
Why a 1:13 expansion feels like a 1:20 recession
<p>In our age of overwhelming technological progress, I still cling to the simpler practices of my youth. I read books rather than tablets, write with an ink pen in cursive rather than text with my thumbs, and attempt to use mental arithmetic, rather than a calculator, in solving ... Show More
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Nov 3
The Importance of Navigation in the Dark
<p id="ember886" class="ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph">I was rewatching Apollo 13 over the weekend - a fabulous movie, by the way, if you’ve never seen it - about how, in 1970, three astronauts returned safely to Earth following an explosion on their spacecraft, two day ... Show More
11m 48s
Nov 2023
R. Schumann Piano Concerto
<p class="p1">In January of 1839, Clara Wieck, Robert's future wife, wrote to Robert, "Don't take it amiss if I tell you that I've been seized by the desire to encourage you to write for orchestra. Your imagination and your spirit are too great for the weak piano." Clara knew tha ... Show More
48m 17s
Dec 2022
Girls Are Jealous Coz I'm Perfect
I was told not to say this, but for the longest time I always wished I was someone else or at least had another body. As far back as I could remember I was always the prettiest girl around, and from as little as five years old, even strangers approached me and told me how lovely ... Show More
11m 34s
Mar 2023
The Life and Music of Clara Schumann
<p class="p1">Clara Schumann, without a doubt, was one of the greatest pianists of all time. </p> <p class="p1">Schumann's playing didn't just leave critics and audiences in raptures, it also left other composers amazed that their music could sound so beautiful. Liszt called her ... Show More
48m 33s
Nov 2008
Chopin: (L adieu Valse - The Farewell Waltz) Waltz in A-flat Major Op. 69, No. 1
This waltz was published posthumously (after Chopin had died). The Waltz is often called "The Farewell Waltz" (L'adieu Valse) because of its origins. The work was supposedly written as a farewell piece to Maria Wodzinska, to whom Chopin was once engaged. However, because her fath ... Show More
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Jun 2023
Olivia Cognet - Designer et artiste-céramiste : de la mode à la céramique, l'épanouissement d'une artiste sans limites
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