by Jeannette Fang | Feb 17, 2020 | about the music, GNPQ Blog, Inside the Music, performer's perspective
As some of you might have seen, I’ll be playing a duet concert this Saturday at Garth Newel, Feb.22, with Jeremy Thompson. And as some of you who have seen the program might be asking, why are we playing two works that are more often heard performed by a full...
by Jeannette Fang | Feb 1, 2020 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, new music education, pub concert, Uncategorized
In 2016, I wrote an excited post about Lera Auerbach for this blog, in which I gave a very subjective listing of some facts of her life that I had deemed were fascinating. If some nonsense words from 4 years ago bring nothing to mind for you, here they are again....
by Jeannette Fang | Feb 20, 2019 | about the music, commissions, Composers, GNPQ Blog, Inside the Music, Uncategorized
by Jeannette Fang Categories are quick, but they are not always accurate, and more often than not they can be misleading. Just take a look at iTunes, where the “Classical” screen encompasses everything from albums of 17th century composer Frescobaldi to...
by Jeannette Fang | Jan 9, 2019 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, Inside the Music, pub concert
by Jeannette Fang I was first introduced to the music of Harold Meltzer through his 2 Songs from Silas Marner, which stayed in my mind for its simple beauty, the cello evoking a peculiar feeling of loneliness and expanse. It was clear to me that Meltzer had a special...
by Jeannette Fang | Jan 22, 2018 | about the music, Composers, Composition Competition, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, new music education, pub concert
Every time I try to describe on this blog a piece of music we’re going to perform, two things happen. I test out a bunch of words that eventually morph into pretentious sacks, and the tunes of “insufferable” and “that’s not right at...
by Jeannette Fang | Aug 28, 2017 | about the music, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, summer 2017
Despite the staggering wealth of repertoire written for the piano, there comes a time when someone asks you (esteemed keyboard player) to play something written for another instrument. There’s this piece we fell in love with, André Caplet’s Conte...
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