Yesterday’s homework assignment to create a family tree for my Cada Dia Spanish class led me to investigate the people in my family. As I’ve written before, I come from a very large family — I am the oldest of five children, my mother was also the oldest of five children in her family, and… Read More Music in my family
Last night I attended the studio recital of Darel and Georgine Stark, in which their two children (my organ students) played the third movement of P.D.Q. Bach’s “Toot Suite,” an organ duet. A word of explanation: First of all, P.D.Q. Bach is a fictional character invented by Peter Schickele, which you can read about on… Read More Siblings + Music = Fun!
I am sure that I have told you before that my siblings and I grew up without television. Oh, it was not because my parents were opposed to it—it was because our house was located in an area where television antennas would not have been able to pick up a signal, and this was in… Read More Family fun
When I help students prepare for a concert or even for playing a church service, we somehow always have another piece “on the side” —perhaps a new piece, just for a change of pace. For myself, having a piece outside of the concert repertoire gives me a little break. Well, in addition to the Bach… Read More A little diversion