Free2Create

As if 88 keys weren't enough.... a fascinating look at the possibilities of a Steinway with two keyboards.

I was interested to read an article by Frank J. Oteri in New Music Box today that resonated with me. He complains that increasingly all music is being described as 'songs'. I'm grateful to know that I'm not the only one who calls a song a song, and an instrumental piece, a piece or composition. It's only since coming to the US in fact, that this has been an issue at all. When I began to teach piano, I was astonished when some of my students referred to their pieces as songs. I'd love to know how this started- any ideas?

I have a secret that I never told anyone, growing up as a classical musician- I hated Beethoven! My rather formal and strict piano teacher had very precise ideas about what constituted great music and Beethoven was her ne plus ultra. I therefore imagined that I had some dreadful flaw which no one must ever discover.