Posts Tagged ‘Piano Lessons’

Catching up with David King
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The son of Bill and Gigi King of Paonia, he first took piano lessons at age eight. A year later he tried violin. Not only did he like the violin, he excelled at it, and in the process, his low math grades began to come up. "I'm an example of how music …
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Arts and entertainment calendar for Dec. 29
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Workshops include small and large group classes, master classes, mini lessons, improvisation, and enrichment, depending on the instrument and level of experience. Offerings include: Violin Workshop, Jan. 28-29 at the Evanston East Campus, 1490 Chicago …
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Meet 5 of the upcoming Dixie's Got Talent contestants
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Newcomer brings joy of violins to children
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If you're a child taking violin lessons with Geri Arnold, you might see these everyday objects gain new life as a box violin. It's a simulated instrument she constructs to give students practice holding the violin before graduating to the real thing. …
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Jasmine Hoffman
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Jasmine Hoffman has a grade point average of 3.86 and is ranked third in her class at Gresham High School. She actively participates in many extracurricular activities, such as volleyball, dance, National Honor Society, private piano and violin lessons …
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Musicians work to inspire others at Christmas
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Ruth Moody Band to perform at the Lucas Theatre
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… where she also gave them their first piano lessons. “My dad sang in the opera chorus, so there was always opera streaming from his den,” Moody said. “Or jazz, which he loved to listen to. “Music was just a normal part of life,” she said. …
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A super-cool holiday event guide
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… “We rosin up the fiddle and do the Christmas swing.” So why not pass your holidays with the Saturday Night Swing at Dovercourt House, featuring a live band and an assortment of folks clad in tweed outfits? For $ 15, you get beginner swing lessons …
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Hammered dulcimer concert at Winnetka Library
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Live CD/DVD reveals Katz's depth, sincerity
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Songs like The Fence (for Matthew Shepard), and Oliver's Tune (for the late violinist Oliver Shroer) have a power all their own. Katz was reared in Montreal in a lively musical household, and grew up taking both violin and piano lessons. …
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Going Out, Staying In: Tips for tonight
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Joshua Bell: Music for violin and piano by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Ysaÿe and Franck, with pianist Sam Haywood. 8 pm, Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., SF $ 15-$ 140, (415) 864-6000. www.sfsymphony.org. Ton Kiang: Everyone comes to this Chinese …
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God's Fiddler: Jascha Heifetz
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Heifetz is declared the first modern violin virtuoso, but nowhere is his modernity explained. Instead, stylistic debates over emotion vs. technique inexorably turn to questions of personality (Heifetz, whose face showed little emotion, was sometimes …
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