In Recital(R) Throughout the Year, Vol 2 Bk 2: with Performance Strategies (The FJH Pianist's Curriculum, Vol 2 Bk 2)

Helen Marlais

ISBN 10: 1569394733 / ISBN 13: 9781569394731

Published by Alfred Music, 2023

Seller Inventory # 1569394733-3-36132716

Synopsis:

Book 2 of In Recital(R) Vol. Two offers tips on recital preparation, a friendly practice guide and schedule, an Imagine Your Performance" feature, and an "After the Recital" review, as part of a continuing discussion on the art of performance. New musical concepts are introduced (legato and staccato articulations, crescendo/ decrescendo, ritardando, rests, etc.), and familiar ones reinforced (note values, keys, hand positions, etc.). Contents include a classical theme arrangement: Tchaikovsky (arr. Brown) Serenade for Strings, 2nd Movement --- Waltz;, and a patriotic solo: George M. Cohan (arr. McLean) You're a Grand Old Flag; plus solos, arrangements, and an equal part duet."

About the Author: Helen Marlais’ active performance schedule includes solo and collaborative concerts throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Her travels abroad have also included performing and teaching at some of the world’s leading conservatories and festivals in Italy, France, Hungary, Turkey, Lithuania, and China. She has performed with members of the Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Grand Rapids, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Beijing National Symphony Orchestras. Dr. Marlais is recorded on Gasparo and Centaur record labels, and has had numerous collaborative performances broadcast regionally, nationally and internationally, on radio, television, and the Internet with her husband, clarinetist, Arthur Campbell.

She is the Director of Keyboard Publications for The FJH Music Company, and has performed and given workshops at local, state, and national music teachers’ conventions. She serves on two national committees, the National Piano Performance and Pedagogy Committee and the Piano Pedagogy Curriculum National Task Force, and her articles can be read in Keyboard Companion, The American Music Teacher, and Clavier magazines. Dr. Marlais is an Associate Professor of Piano at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI, where she directs a comprehensive piano pedagogy program and coordinates all of the group piano programs. She also hosts an annual piano pedagogy conference, featuring nationally and internationally recognized clinicians and performers.

She received her DM in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University and her MM in piano performance from Carnegie Mellon University. She has also held full-time faculty piano positions at the Crane School of Music, S.U.N.Y. at Potsdam, Iowa State University, and Gustavus Adolphus College.

Bibliographic Details

Title: In Recital(R) Throughout the Year, Vol 2 Bk ...
Publisher: Alfred Music
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good