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How to Play Piano Chords

September 12th, 2018 in Articles by | 7 comments

Do you want to know how to play chords on piano? This page will provide you with the best online chord resources. Where to look depends on your purpose. Getting Started Do you want to quickly figure out the notes of a specific chord? Then visit one of the many sites with piano chord charts. Here are two of the […]

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Mr. Taylor’s Double Vision

March 29th, 2012 in Piano News by | 4 comments

This model D concert grand by Steinway & Sons, developed by Emanuel Moór (1863-1931), is the only Steinway equipped with a double keyboard. It was built by Steinway for Werner von Siemens of Berlin and sold to him in 1929. The piano was purchased by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1961 for the use of Gunnar Johansen, artist in residence […]

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Recommended Book: The Russian Piano School

December 7th, 2011 in Piano News by | 2 comments

The Moscow Conservatory piano school enjoys pride of place among Russia’s musical institutions. Its outstanding graduates have included Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Medtner, Richter, Gilels, Ashkenazy and Pletnev. Yet while their mastery transcends any process of formal teaching, behind these great names lies a teaching process whose workings are little known to the outside world – except in occasional publications such as […]

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Piano News Flash – November 2011

November 7th, 2011 in Piano News by

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links. Classical music linked to high intelligence Zimerman and Bernstein in Beethoven’s 3rd PC World Premiere of Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor for Solo Violin Listen to Ligeti’s Studies and Bach’s Goldberg Variations – Aspen Recital with Jeremy Denk Music training enhances children’s verbal intelligence Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B […]

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Piano News Flash – July 2011

July 31st, 2011 in Piano News by

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links collected during July 2011. Read Aspen Music Festival’s Beethoven Book on the Piano Trios Hamelin, a true virtuoso What future awaits the world’s budding virtuosos? New Liszt “wild and crazy” website – Explore Decca’s comprehensive overview of this extraordinary Arranged marriages that lead to love at first sight All the […]

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Piano Street Mobile – Sheet Music on the Go for Mobile Devices

March 23rd, 2011 in Piano News, Piano Street Site News by | 12 comments

How about instant access on the go to 3000+ study scores from the standard classical piano repertoire? On m.pianostreet.com, a mobile version of Piano Street’s sheet music library you can easily view all piano scores on your mobile device. The mobile sheet music library gives convenient mobile access to all scores from www.pianostreet.com. It is a mobile application in the […]

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Recommended Book: Piano Notes – The World of the Pianist

February 11th, 2011 in Piano News by | 2 comments

Charles Rosen is one of the world’s most talented pianists — and one of music’s most astute commentators. Known as a performer of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Elliott Carter, he has also written highly acclaimed criticism for sophisticated students and professionals. In Piano Notes, (Free Press, 2002) he writes for a broader audience about an old friend — the piano […]

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Piano News Flash – January 2011

February 1st, 2011 in Piano News by | 3 comments

Piano Street’s monthly series of hand picked piano related links collected during January. How Do We Fix Classical Music? Here’s What You Told Us – Deceptive Cadence, NPR Christopher O’Riley And The Art Of Listening Listen to Y220 Aspen and Steven Osborne in Mozart PC no 19 Chopin’s hallucinations explained? BBC takes an inspirational look into Mozart’s times and life […]

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Sandbar Became World Renowned Piano Bar

January 31st, 2011 in Piano News by | 24 comments

In early January this puzzling mystery gave a whole new meaning to the phrase “piano bar.” A grand piano appeared on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay, Miami. How and why the piano got there was a mystery. A grand piano weighs at least 650 pounds and is unwieldly to move, said Bob Shapiro, a salesman at Piano Music Center in […]

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GUINNESS WORLD RECORD for the World’s Largest Recording Series by a Solo Artist

January 30th, 2011 in Piano News by | 2 comments

The Complete Liszt Piano Music with Leslie Howard to be released in February 2011 In 1986, to mark the centenary of Franz Liszt’s death, Leslie Howard gave a series of ten Liszt recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall. By excluding Liszt’s arrangements (fantasies and transcriptions) of other composers’ works, and by selecting only the final versions of Liszt’s original works for […]

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Piano Masterclass with Oscar Wilde and Dr. House

November 26th, 2010 in Top Video Picks by | 1 comment

“Piano Masterclass” sketch from “Hysteria! Hysteria! Hysteria!” AIDS benefit, featuring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in 1988. Fry and Laurie are Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, a successful English comedy double act mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s. Having met in 1980 through mutual friend Emma Thompson (whilst all attended the University of Cambridge), Fry and Laurie have since […]

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A Piano Spectacular for 80 Fingers – $1.6 Million Worth of Piano on Stage

October 8th, 2010 in Piano News by | 6 comments

After sell-out performances in 2008 at the Melbourne Concert Hall, the Sydney Opera House and QPAC Brisbane, The Steinway Spectacular returns for an extraordinary music event in Sidney today, Friday October 8 2010 at City Recital Hall Angel Place and on Sunday, October 17 at the Melbourne Town Hall.
 
 The eight pianists will work as an ensemble to perform […]

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