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Silk embroidered fox created by Helen Richman, professional hand embroiderer, based in Somerset, UK #womensart

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Sightreading Maverick, my weekly sightreading show, is on for tomorrow at the normal time - 1pm ET. Tomorrow I'll be sightreading piano music by Henri-Joseph Rigel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Mikhail Glinka, Robert Schumann, Paul Ladmirault, and Edvard Grieg. youtube.com/live/nQgNFGn...

So thankful for the beauty of where we live. ❤️

I had a good time on my sightreading show today! I especially enjoyed this set of pieces by Peruvian composer, Manuel Lorenzo Aguirre. Always refreshing to read music by a new-to-me composer. www.youtube.com/live/u8T_W9n...

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My work at Radford University in southwest Virginia has started back up for which I'm grateful. Summertime is always a mix of relaxation but also mind-boggling confusion as to what I should be doing with my time. Always glad to be back in a routine and working with students who inspire me daily. ❤️

Dear musical friends here and folks who have a love for adventure and traveling, especially in Italy, do consider following @zenebabowers.bsky.social . She's a talented, thoughtful, adventurous one. She & her husband have written a book about their move to Italy. www.thriftbooks.com/w/i-cant-bel...

@zenebabowers.bsky.social , and if it helps at all, here's a link to the musical folks I follow and converse with here. I'm sure I'm missing folks but maybe it's a start? bsky.app/profile/did:...

@zenebabowers.bsky.social , welcome to Bluesky! It's good to have you here. In case you haven't made the connection who I am related to your past, I went to Eastman, studied cello with Paul Katz and piano with Rebecca Penneys and then Nelita True. I so admire what you & Matt have done & are doing.

Join my tomorrow at 1pm ET to discover some music that's definitely new to me! Always fun to sightread in a livestream. 😱 But why not? It's a new sort of fun.

Daily bunny no.3058 is going back to school

Her works are amazing! This is not your typical painting. It incorporates machine and hand embroidery. www.alisonholt.com

That moment when someone emails you for your recital program for an upcoming informal little performance and you realize it's next week. 😬

You might be surprised by how often this is happens!

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Tomorrow's sightreading show is on for the normal time! Join me as I sightread piano music for an hour & enjoy some interesting music, listen to me blab on about my tips & strategies, & give your own 2 cents on what you like and don't like! youtube.com/live/GQSILrQ...

Another randomly variagated two-tone dahlia 'Natal' 🌱📷 #Bloomscrolling #FlowerFeed #PlantSky #UKGardening #DahliaLove

Show starts in 30 minutes! Here's what's on the docket...music by Nicolas Séjan, Anatoly Lyadov, Clara Faisst, Geroges Onslow and Adolf Jensen.

Sightreading show is on for tomorrow afternoon, same time, same place! And as always you can watch anytime after it's streamed if you can't catch it live. youtube.com/live/urbMbXd...

Favorite gem from last Sunday's sightreading show... This is Peter Warlock's "Milkmaids." Such a joy to play and a really great exercise to focus on the outer voices and letting my ears and experience (and eyes last) to fill in the middle voices. www.youtube.com/live/urbMbXd...

This sometimes is a very subtle issue but it's important to get good at identifying, especially in later stages of working on a piece. 🧵

Show starts in 30 minutes! For some reason today's episode ended up being full of finger twisting challenges it seems so we'll see what happens! I can assure you not all notes will be played. 😬 youtube.com/live/urbMbXd...

One of the most beautiful pieces of music I know. And an exquisite performance. youtu.be/0iwTEIsM9UI?...

My sightreading show is ON for tomorrow afternoon at 1pm ET! If you're curious about the thoughts that go through my head during the sightreading process, stop by or watch anytime after it's streamed! No idea what I'll be playing yet so it'll just have to be a mystery! youtube.com/live/urbMbXd...

Some of the most important points I like to get across to musicians wanting to improve their practicing are: * effective practicing involves your brain every step of the way - it's not just about repetitions * there are usually several ways to approach anything in the practice room 1/2 posts

Just watched a fascinating little documentary about William Morris & the Arts & Crafts Movement. Makes me think now might be a good time to revisit a similar movement here in the US. I know that might sound kind of vague and a bit of a stretch but that's how I tend to work. youtu.be/sjdCOUGrNK8?...

A moment from my sightreading show yesterday... I'm always looking for lovely little transcriptions and arrangements to play so I was delighted to discover this Irish folksong in one of Julius Röntgen's set of piano pieces. This is from "Dolce far niente," Op. 60. www.youtube.com/live/R6Yr-fC...

Cello loveliness! A good way to start the day. youtu.be/oGOSTHeiQXE?...

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Daily bunny no.3035 is out catching fireflies

Shannon Clegg is a designer-maker based in East London who molds dried pressed flowers into vessels #WomensArt

As I'm starting to write a book about the processing, learning, playing, and performing of music I'm trying to decide whether or not I'm actually going to publish hard copies of it. One of the reasons I've avoided writing this is because I don't like the idea of it being set in stone. 🧵

Tomorrow's sightreading show is on! I'll be reading music by D. Yzelen, Julius Röntgen (one of my new favorite composers!), his wife, Amanda Röntgen-Meier, Manuel de Falla, and good ol' J.S. Bach. Join me and people around the world as I live life on the edge for an hour and have fun doing it!

Oh boy. Here we go again! Another thing that is common in these early editions is for long notes like half notes and whole notes appearing in the center or the measure or in the center of beats they cover.

Well this is fun. 😜 Gotta love early scores. I was so incredibly confused and it was getting me all cross-eyed. Slow movement. 3/4. But in typical early score fashion, nothing was lined up & things were beamed obscuring beats. Had to do the math and rewrite it so that I can play it.

One of my favorite analogies about practicing mindfully came while I was pulling weeds in the garden. Here's a blog post about what I learned with my hands in the dirt: ericaannsipes.blogspot.com/2010/06/less...

Since it's summertime and we're spending a lot of time pulling weeds these days I was reminded of my analogy to analyzing trouble spots when practicing. Make sure you get those roots when you go to pull a weed, whether it's in a garden or in your practicing. It pays off!

UK sculptor Heather Jansch (1948-2021), known especially for life-size driftwood horse sculptures, #WomensArt

Emillie Ferris, contemporary English embroidery artist #womensart

As I'm working on a book I imagine I'll be dropping all sorts of thoughts/tips here about music-making, learning, and performing.

I'm trying so hard to get to work on putting together a book that covers everything I believe about music-making/learning/performing but I'm very overwhelmed and not sure how to start. Mostly I'm overwhelmed with how to organize myself. 🧵

@deanbarker.bsky.social , I believe you're a fan of Schumann's music? Have you read or heard any of Röntgen's music? I find some similarities between them.

My sightreading show had an interesting mix yesterday including one new-to-me composer whose music I've completely fallen in love with, Julius Röntgen. His piano quintet...oh my! Here's a clip of one of his Fantasy pieces from the show. www.youtube.com/live/M9rr8V2...

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Reading through my blog as a way to kick start working on a book I've been meaning to write for...ummmm...20 years? Consider yourself warned! I may be posting some for the next little while as I come across ones that still ring true for me. ericaannsipes.blogspot.com/2009/10/ques...

One of the fun things about my show is that I play music that is outside the mainstream. You never know when we might find a gem that hasn't been discovered! And yes, it does happen! There really is A LOT of music out there. And A LOT of composers whose music isn't heard, without good reason.