WMV Music Web Log

OK, a blog about technique (piano technique, that is). So, I used to hear other piano students play astonishingly well, and feel quite abashed. What I was responding to was often a kind of physical grace, agility, elegance, and power, which I didn't see myself as particularly having at the piano. (Why didn't I give up? That's another story). So I think technique is precisely this grace, this physical joy in the process in all its big and little gestures. And technique is about joy in the feeling in your own body in relation to the making of the music. And I remember gratefully now these young people and how beautifully they made music, according to their own most natural and graceful way. So it was not that I had no intrinsic grace and elegance - it was that I had not yet discovered or understood how to cherish my own. There is a lot of forgiveness involved! But there is also an exhilarating permission.

Oh, by the way, check out this video (and cakeyoo's other videos): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGgYSere2QE

And this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvcQ2BnkYxg&mode=user&search=