Author Archives: luciamay

Happy New Year, Students and Parents! Bruce and I wish all of you a wonderful 2013, filled with love, health, and more great music. I am back in the saddle, but I know that a number of you are not … Continue reading →

We are wishing all of you a season of love, health and great music as we visit my former teacher (and your grand-teacher) Taras Gabora in White  Rock, B.C. The other night we heard a concert with the Vancouver Symphony … Continue reading →

Hi Students and Parents, Our performance class dates for Spring 2013 are as follows: Saturdays at 10 a.m: Jan. 19, Feb. 16, March 16, April 20, and May 18 (dress rehearsal) Our recital will be on Friday evening, May 24. … Continue reading →

I’ve referred many of you to this clip. It is a thing of beauty.

We are looking forward to our semester recital this Friday evening, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. at the house. Please arrive in plenty of time to tune and warm up.  Friends and family members are welcome; if you plan to … Continue reading →

Please congratulate Alec, Meriel, Imala, and Nygel for their participation in the Mary West Competition on Sunday. Come hear Alec and Nygel perform at The Mary West Solo Competition Recital on Sunday Nov 11 at 7 pm, Lake Harriet United … Continue reading →

At our last performance class I promised to post the Salvatore Sciarrino excerpt I played for you. Nothing else I know sounds like this. I’ll try to gain access to the printed score and maybe one of you will study … Continue reading →

Hi, Students and Parents, Terrific class on Saturday! More on that in my next post. A couple of parents alerted me to upcoming concerts: I told you about the first one in a post fairly recently. To refresh your memory, … Continue reading →

Dear Students and Parents, What a terrific performance class today! As promised, here are the links to the historical, tradition-based examples for Bloch’s Nigun, Monti’s Czardas, and Bacewicz’s Oberek. http://beta.chabad.org/therebbe/livingtorah/player_cdo/aid/323922/jewish/Niggun-Hachono.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuBnLH4tnJU&feature=related This is a curious film  of Polish folk dancers on … Continue reading →

Dear Students and Parents, I know I’m preaching to the choir, but you may be interested in this New York Times article that appeared a couple of days ago: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/early-music-lessons-have-longtime-benefits/?emc=eta1 Since we’re in Back-To-School mode, check out the good Dominant string … Continue reading →