Archive for May, 2007

PROPHETIC and COSMIC ideas in MUSIC

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

music is like the PYRAMIDS of EGYPT which are highly visible, yet nearly totally inaccessible!.. a tour guide will point at them, you can climb them…but what kind of riches will you find within?..and how do you… get out? suppose, you can hire a thief, who’ll show you around;
MUSIC, it is a STATE OF BEING, a REALM OF EXISTENCE with its language and visionaries (great composers and their music);
ONE can begin to get the drift of what IT MIGHT BE after the scientific discovery of STRING THEORY or a trip back to the stone-age ACOUSTICAL ceremonies, still surviving in Buddhism.

contact me for the series of lectures on this topic.

STUDENTS

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Charlie Liu, my 6-year-old student, just won the 1st place in MMTA‘s piano competition division 11A for 6-7 year olds!

When Charlie first came to me, he looked like a little doll, cute as a button, which when you wind up will play piano for you beautifully! By then I had decided to quit teaching and just carried on with one faithful student with occasional add-ons. Surely, Charlie changed that – one tends to get overwhelmed with enthusiasm and warm glow finding oneself in the presence of a little miracle (I’m sure I’m biased). Certainly, first, a decision was made to choose the route of studies as a concert pianist; that required emphasis on health (i.e. sports), parental support, piano and of course – concerts, which was abundantly met. Charlie found the same enthusiasm and warm glow everywhere he appeared – THANKS to everyone who helped! SPECIAL THANKS to his parents (Mingyi Liu and Jinghui Xie), who were instrumental in Charlie’s progress, and to his first teacher, Tatyana Berketova, who provided that first safe and nurturing harbor for baby-Charlie.

Here Charlie plays CPE Bach’s Solfeggietto in Prestissimo at Pine Hill Waldorf School Auditorium: