Hi- I would be interested to know if you felt any awkwardness from the facutly regarding this title. I suggested such a class borrowing the exact same title, and immediately got a cool reception when we had already agreed on the merits of doing something. My read was that the somehow the title made faculty feel uncomfortable. Personally, I think it's spot on. I don't think I was reading too much into it, but maybe. Glad to hear it went well and thanks for keeping us posted. cheers, Dennis Johnson __________ On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:35 AM, <reggaepass at aol.com> wrote: > Greetings List, > Last night I was the "entertainment" for the weekly piano colloquium here > at CalArts. I did a super-condensed version of "Ten Things Every Pianist > Should Know About Pianos" (which is really EVERYTHING pianists should know, > presented shotgun style and organized under ten very broad sub-headings). > I've posted about his before. What I want to share with you now is that > there was only one student who knew anything about the subject at all, and > he learned it is a class required for piano majors, even undergrads, at the > Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Kudos to Eric for the excellent > job he is doing with that class. In fact, the pianist from CCM happened to > win the door prize, but deferred it to another student because he already > had a copy of Larry Fine's "The Piano Book," purchased as a text for our > esteemed colleague's class. Well done, sir! > > Alan Eder > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091006/8379741c/attachment.htm>
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