improvisation
Parents Who Don’t Participate
In both my shared lessons and private lessons (child student) the parents are present and usually sit and watch. However, this week one mother brought her lap top to use during the class and in another class the parents knew each other and carried on…
Improvisation as a Calming Tool
Recently at a friend’s place my daughter Niluka, came crying to me holding one hand in the other. A young girl, about six years old, had dropped the piano lid on Niluka’s fingers while she was playing the piano for a few others in the…
Putting Poems to Music
Just thought I’d share an idea I got from a workshop I attended on composing. It relates to setting poems to music. The teacher was actually talking about using words that are not yet in poetic form where you have to start by creating the…