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 | Aug 7, 2017 | about the music, Composers, Composition Competition, GNPQ Blog, interviews, summer 2017
This summer is shaping up to be one full of visits from the composers of programmed pieces. This is significant because we live in a time where this doesn’t actually happen very often. Most people don’t realize how much of a treat it is to actually put a...
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