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Book 4 of In Recital Vol. Two offers tips on recital preparation, a Preparing for Success practice guide, a Creating a Story feature, and During and After the Recital, as part of a progressive discussion on the art of performance. New elements include: sixteenth note patterns, compound meters, inversions of major, minor, and diminished I, IV, and V chords, hand-over-hand arpeggios, some L.H. melodic passages, and more intricate accompaniments. Contents include classical and patriotic themes: An equal part duet version of Bizet s Habanera (arr. Olson), and a solo arrangement of Battle Hymn of the Republic (arr. Bober), plus contributions by Brown, Costley, Cu llar, Roubos, and Strickland. The CD and teaching pages address more advanced performance issues. Contents include: Irish Dance (Judith Strickland); Prairie Wind (Kevin Costley); The Gathering Storm(Valerie Roth Roubos); Variations on a Classical Theme (Timothy Brown); Jack o'Lantern Jazz (Martin Cuellar); Barn Dance (Timothy Brown

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.