I composed "In Sight of Heaven" in two nights at a music festival in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I wrote it for Delayna and over the years, we have played it many times and in many places. Most recently, we played it at our daughter's wedding. There is a second...
As we talk about, it seems that every baby must be born with the DNA of Mozart's "Eine kleine nachtmusik" as, in our experience, every child seems to know the opening theme! We are happy to share the first movement of this Serenade for Strings in a four hand...
For many years, we have enjoyed a poster on our studio wall that reads "Music is the universal language of mankind." We love that thought. Anger could find it"s expression through music rather than warfare. The love and spiritual understanding of music could be...
Pablo Casals (1876-1973) “Bach is my best friend. Bach is forever, and nobody, nobody will reach the greatness and profoundness and the diversity of Bach. He is the God of music, the image of what I dream in music and what I say in music. in every style, in every...
"The great masters stimulate and refresh the awareness of the spirit. As everyone knows, there are no depths of unhappiness, tragedy, frustration, anger, and despair, that haven't touched Mozart, for instance, to the very core of his being; nor was there any nuance,...
Published on Jun 18, 2012 We had this conversation in 2007 during our filming for Piano Wizard Academy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Since that time, our feelings about the importance of music in the schools and in the lives of our children have only...
Like nearly all young pianists, we were introduced to Beethoven early on in our studies at the piano. Years later, our life with Beethoven intensified with Don's founding of the Beethoven Society for Pianists in 1984. At this time in our lives, words cannot...
Johann Sebastian Bach German Composer (1685-1750) Writings from Bach’s World by Jan Chiapusso, Indiana University Press, 1968 “Music held an essentially spiritual meaning for Bach; it was a medium for reaching the depths of the soul…During Bach’s school years, music...
