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Divine Laws and Musical Composition 13 Sep 2012 | 07:38 pm
This morning Maestro Gekic related the following anecdote to me: A young composer brought a new work to the elderly Rachmaninoff who told him he would take a look at it and to come back in a few days...
Piano technique update 4 Jul 2012 | 12:26 am
Once again after a long pause I have time to write something here.I just had a very successful Weeks I and II of this year’s Institutes – the sound of each and every pianist at our closing recital was...
Satisfying work with Institute graduates 3 May 2012 | 04:13 am
Sorry I’ve been away from my blog for so long – I’ve been busy, mostly with playing recitals (search Alan Fraser Stuttgart on YouTube to see one of them) and finishing my next book, All Thumbs: Well-C...
A trip to Stuttgart & Montreal 12 Jan 2012 | 12:33 pm
It has been hectic here – in Serbia both Christmas and New Year’s are celebrated twice so we still haven’t seen the end of it – while I have been practicing more than celebrating for my recitals next ...
Feldenkrais and piano technique – some beginnings 24 Oct 2011 | 06:05 pm
I grew up in Montreal and went to Lower Canada College, still one of the best schools in Canada. The Lion, the school magazine recently did an issue on the arts and asked me to write a few words on ho...
Abandon structure to discover its function in refined form 30 Sep 2011 | 07:50 pm
...I mentioned to her that although I had told her to flop her hand entirely and let go of its structure, of course she couldn't really let go of its structure - those bones are in there and always wi...
‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing’ revisited 27 Sep 2011 | 09:47 pm
Last night giving a Skype lesson to a student in Salt Lake City we ran up against an old problem: she has learned about the hand’s arch so well that it is now causing her grief. The piece in question ...
