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 | Oct 3, 2017 | GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, performer's perspective, summer 2017
Why are we so hung up on wrong notes? After this year’s 10-week summer season, while I did all the whoops and high fives of getting to the end without face-planting onstage, all I could think about were how many gaffs I made onstage. How many little split notes...
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...
by Jeannette Fang | Aug 14, 2017 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, new music education, summer 2017
Every summer at Garth Newel’s there’s a keyboard weekend. It a tradition that started before my hire, and it involves 3 pianists descending onto Garth Newel to join me and give the term “piano quartet” a whole new meaning. You might imagine...
by Jeannette Fang | Jun 5, 2017 | audience appreciaton, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, performer's perspective
by Jeannette Fang I’ve been noticing more and more musicians saying that they don’t enjoy the spotlight. I don’t know if this is becoming a trend or not, it’s just something I’ve been paying greater attention to the more I’ve been...
by Jeannette Fang | May 22, 2017 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, spring 2017
Walter Willson Cobbett may not have composed symphonies or even picked up an instrument as a child, but his influence in the world of chamber music is so far-reaching that it is felt more than a century later at Garth Newel. I suppose anyone with a lot of money has...
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