So, this is played on Synthesia because you’d probably need to throw yourself on the piano in order to hit at least 50 per cent of the notes. But fret not, there are pretty colors of notes flying everywhere. This is also a real song, with a real melody and harmony. If you play video…
Notice how you can find the greatest musicians online nowadays? The Piano Guys are a group of musicians that maintain an amazing YouTube channel featuring high caliber covers and originals of all kinds of music. Namely, my two favourite musicians to listen to are: 1. Steven Sharp Nelson – Cellist 2. Jon Schmidt – Pianist…
The annual Calgary Kiwanis Festival is in full swing for 2012. This is a music festival that features amateur musicians performing repertoire in their musical instrument, at all grade levels. Giving almost 9,500 musicians the chance to perform for their peers and receive adjudication from the most high-caliber professional musicians, thousands of youth involved in…
For all of us piano players out there, we are all aware of the grueling Bach Prelude & Fugues, or the ever repetitive Czerny exercises. These, of course, are not bad pieces as they are absolutely crucial for your development in the fundamental skills of piano, but every once in a while, we all need…
Edvard Grieg was a brilliant Norwegian composer and pianist, recognized most famously for his Piano Concerto in A Minor.
Inspired by Bon Iver after such a great performance on the Feb 4 edition of Saturday Night Live, I thought it’d be appropriate to at least post this beautiful Bon Iver cover of Bonnie Raitt‘s 1991 classic “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” Justin Vernon performed this piece on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with…
Possessed.” Devilishly dressed personas with masked makeup roamed the Jack Singer’s concert hall lobby, staring patrons into the depths of their eyes, a window to the soul.
Many great artists of our time wrote the most romantically moving scores or painted the most emotionally expressive pieces. A few of them, however, suffered great fits of depression and mania.
Piano in a Factory, a film directed by Zhang Meng, tells the story of a father’s love for his daughter. Even as state-run industry begins to waver, the economic liberalization is evidently far from reaching the city that the film takes place. Chen Guilin (Wang Qianyuan) plays the accordion in a local band with a…
I hope that by now we’ve pretty much decided on how to spend the summer. Some of us will be working, some travelling, some just hanging out and seeing their friends, and some going to summer school (sadly, I am one of those people). But if you still have no idea, have no fear! There…
Letting pre-exam stress get to you? Maybe you’re stuck in a job you can’t stand when you’d rather be out enjoying the sunshine. Perhaps you’re missing the cold, snowy, winter days (*cough*, that was a joke). Or maybe you’re like me and are starting out the summer season with the flu. On one hand, you can probably relate to…
[youtube GqHBuUAyve8] I found this while looking for piano covers or normally heavy songs. It struck me as very peaceful and serene. The piano cover evokes a serene state of mind; it is akin to a blissful silence. Thought I’d share it with all of you.
WeiJia, fellow blogger and I had the extraordinary chance to meet and interview Jan Lisiecki at the Wonder of Chopin concert playing in the Jack Singer Concert Hall. When do you have the chance to meet a 15 year old piano prodigy? Not everyday, at least for me, but perhaps for his friends at Western Canada…
Being one of my passions in life, I think music is an important factor in the lives of men. As a listener of an extremely wide range of music, I am sometimes distressed to see that many people don’t explore music outside of their comfort zone. I listen to a lot of jazz, rock, electronic…
The Wonder of Chopin was the opening performance to start off the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra season, and this spectacular piece sets the bar high for this year. The Wonder of Chopin celebrated Frederic Chopin’s 200th birthday, highlighting his Polish heritage and culture. Calgary featured its own Polish Calgarian, accomplished pianist Jan Lisiecki in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.…