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British pianist, teacher and composer
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2019-11-30 04:20:09
This past week, shrinking degrees of musical separation led to an intersection of my own ideas about phrase shaping and pedaling with Schnabel, via his pupil, Eunice Norton. Norton’s bio is capsulized at Graham Fitch’s website, https://practisingthepiano.com/eunice-norton-schnabel-Matthay/ “A student of both Schnabel and Matthay was American pianist Eunice Norton (1908 – 2005). She studied as…
2016-03-22 12:00:01
[…] some years a conductor with the Carl Rosa Opera Company and subsequently to other companies. A hectic program of composing, conducting and teaching brought about a gradual deterioration in MacCunn’s health, and he died in 1916 aged only 48. 2 Fanny Waterman Happy birthday Dame Fanny Waterman! She was born in Leeds; her father, Myer Waterman, a Russian Jew, had emigrated to England to work as a jeweler. She began to study with Tobias Matthay when she was 17; she started giving public performances, and in 1941 opened the concert season in Leeds with the Leeds Symphony Society. She won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music and studied under Cyril Smith. In 1944, she married Dr. Geoffrey de Keyser and in 1950, with the arrival of her first child, gave up her concert career and concentrated on teaching. Her son Paul de Keyser also became a notable […]
2016-02-25 12:53:20
[…] 1902 to 1920. All of these recordings, which span most of his stage career, are available today on CDs and as digital downloads. 2 Myra Hess In 1890 Myra Hess was born in London, England. At the age of five began to study the piano. Two years later, she entered the Guildhall School of Music, where she graduated as winner of the Gold Medal. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay. Her debut came in 1907 when she played Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with Sir Thomas Beecham conducting. She went on to tour through Britain, the Netherlands and France. Upon her American debut (New York City, 24 January 1922) she became a prime favourite in the United States, not only as a soloist, but also as a fine ensemble player. She also has a link to jazz, having given lessons in the 1920s to […]
2015-08-02 16:10:15
Perspectives: You Don't Need To Be A Doctor To Understand Your Hand, But You Shouldn't Be A Piano Teacher If You Don't!
[…] that are just as beneficial for understanding the mechanics of the hand. Anyone can pick up Malwine Bree’s treatise on Leschetizky’s methods of teaching, and they can flick through to all of the drawings and pictures of his hand demonstrating how to correctly take chords, but are they REALLY understanding? Are they really understanding Wieck and his focus on the wrist as a reliever of tension? Do they understand the dialogue between the techniques of Matthay and Breithaupt whilst having no knowledge of weight and muscular movement in and around the hand? Finally, do they know and understand what is under their own skin? In a lot of cases, probably not. Reading book after book of pedagogical practices/ideologies is wonderful, but it isn’t the full picture. Just like a mechanic has to lift the bonnet of the car to better understand the problem, we have to lift the layers of […]
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