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Today in Music History ~ 10/18
1893 ~ Charles Gounod died of a stroke in Saint-Cloud, France. He was an organist, conductor and composer. Perhaps his most well-known piece in modern times is his "Funeral March of a Marionette",...
View ArticleToday in Music History ~ 10/19
• 1911 ~ George Cates, Musician, worked with Steve Allen, musical director of the Lawrence Welk Show for 25 years • 1916 ~ Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer • 1916 ~ Emil Gilels, Russian...
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Today in Music History ~ 10/20
1874 ~ Charles Edward Ives, American composer. He was an innovative composer of the 20th century and is considered the first major composer from America. His works, which includes piano music and...
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Today in Music History ~ 10/21
• 1885 ~ Egon Wellesz, Austrian composer and musicologist • 1907 ~ The "Merry Widow" opened in New York. The play starred Ethel Jackson and Donald Brian. The operetta had been introduced in Europe two...
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Today in Music History ~ 10/22
1811 ~ Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer and pianist Read quotes by and about Franz Liszt More information about Liszt• 1885 ~ Giovanni Martinelli, Opera singer, tenor with Metropolitan Opera for 30...
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Today in Music History ~ 10/23
1878 ~ The opera Carmen, by Bizet, had it's first American performance but it was sung in Italian. It took another fifteen years before audiences could hear it in French, the language in which it was...
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Today in Music History ~ 10/24
1788 ~ Sarah Hale, Poet, magazine editor, wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb• 1904 ~ Moss Hart, Tony Award-winning director of My Fair Lady (1957), playwright, married to actress Kitty Carlisle • 1911 ~...
View ArticleNYC Opera offers 2 views of family life
By MIKE SILVERMAN, For The Associated Press Mike Silverman, For The Associated Press NEW YORK – Two 20th-century works that depict their composers' vastly divergent views of domestic life are on...
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Latin Grammy concert honors Placido Domingo
By CRISTINA SILVA, Associated Press Cristina Silva, Associated Press – Thu Nov 11, 3:00 am ET LAS VEGAS – Rock and pop crooners from throughout Latin America praised opera icon Placido Domingo as an...
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Happy Holidays!
No matter what your beliefs may be, we wish the very best holiday season, full of family, friends and better health.
View ArticleIt's a New Year and a New Website!
Starting this new year (2011), I'm trying out a new online "music teacher's helper" website. I am always so focused on students and lessons that I don't always get around to keeping good...
View ArticleInfo for OCMS Students
After you've logged into your student account at http://oconnor.musicteachershelper.com/login there is a whole other world of interaction you can have with the O'Connor Music Studio.You can check your...
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Bob Chiralo, OrganMaster
I've been thinking a bit about shoes lately, specifically organ shoes. Many people probably don't know that organists usually use special shoes to help them play the pedals on an organ. When I was...
View ArticleZez Confrey (1895-1971)
I just love Zez Confrey's music. It's not overplayed like some of Scott Joplin's works but it's just as much fun.This is a piece I have often played in recitals and just "because".If any of my...
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Music Camp Final Program
See the full gallery on Posterous A few pictures. Kids played bells, chimes, boomwhackers, drums and Orff instruments as well as putting on musical show, all after only one week of camp.Amazing!
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Music Camp Final Program
See the full gallery on Posterous A few pictures. Kids played bells, chimes, boomwhackers, drums and Orff instruments as well as putting on musical show, all after only one week of camp.Amazing!
View ArticleMusic Camp Final Program, Part 2
One of the songs the kids sang at the final program of Music Camp. This is what they will be singing at Sunday services at Pender UMC.Enjoy!
View ArticleReminder!
Piano Lessons at the O'Connor Music Studio resume tomorrow, September 19, 2011.If you haven't reserved your time for the fall, please call or send an email.See you then!
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Piano lessons not just for kids
Note: The O'Connor Music Studio specializes in adult piano lessons.~~~By Diana Greenburg When Paula Fay started taking piano lessons for the first time in her late fifties, it fulfilled a lifelong...
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Mozart's Fantasia in d minor, K. 397
I have always really enjoyed playing Mozart's Fantasia in d minor and when I was asked to play for the new piano dedication service at my church I knew what I would "dust off" to perform.The Grove’s...
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So true...
This picture was shared on Facebook but I'm not sure where the original site is to give appropriate credit.It's too good not to share, though! Many thanks to the artist and the author.
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You're Never Too Old
My 88 year young Mom and my 80 year young duet partner play piano duets today.
View ArticleChristmas Music, 2013
Since I've become the webmaster for my church, I decided to write a series for 31 days of Christmas/holiday music. Find that here: http://pendernews.org/category/christmas-music/
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Van Cliburn, American classical pianist, dies
cdcovers/tchaikovsky/concerto no 1 van cliburn.jpg (Photo credit: exquisitur)Van Cliburn was just a pianist much the way Neil Armstrong was merely an astronaut. Simply put, the tall Texan's musical...
View ArticleNO Piano Lessons Monday July 14!
The studio is just about cleared out and most things moved to the center of the room so that the painters can start painting Tuesday morning.I had planned on teaching Monday, but with everything moved,...
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