Classical Music
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Teachers Hate Her! This Pianist’s One Weird Trick for Getting Back Into Practicing
(Okay, it’s not one weird trick so much as it’s a multi-part framework, but if you expect a clickbait title to be truthful, hello sweet summer child, maybe the internet is not the place for you.) So I spent most of 2020 feeling really crappy on the practicing front (and also, on all the fronts,… Continue reading
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A Few Updates
I logged into my blog just now to make another Twitter thread post, and checked to see when I’d last updated this blog (“It’s been a while, maybe two months?”). To my mild horror, I found that my last post was on January 8. That was a whole era ago—a different, simpler time before a… Continue reading
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As Seen on Twitter: The Beethoven Thread (Extended Edition)
Note: This is a centralized, formatted version of a Twitter thread I wrote that ended up getting some traction. I have turned it into a blog post for easier reading and sharing. First posted on Twitter on December 16, 2019. It’s probably Beethoven’s birthday, so let’s talk about my dude Ludwig, things you might not… Continue reading