Monthly Archives: October 2014

I have loved learning more about Bach this month.  I hope you will all subscribe to the “Piano Explorer” Magazine.  They have such colorful, easy to read articles with many photos accompanying each article.  The September Edition highlights Bach and … Continue reading →

I just held three Halloween Group Classes this week.  We had a blast and I found the greatest website for teaching materials.   It is http://www.teacherspayteachers.com.  I got lots of bulletin board ideas and zillions of great handouts from Sara Bibe.  … Continue reading →

Remember this note from yesterday?…Bach wrote the Goldberg Variations to relax a millionaire.  One of his pupils, Johann Goldberg, worked for an insomniac count who needed music to get to sleep.  The count sent the most generous payment Bach ever … Continue reading →

Bach wrote the Goldberg Variations to relax a millionaire.  One of his pupils, Johann Goldberg, worked for an insomniac count who needed music to get to sleep.  The count sent the most generous payment Bach ever received! The famous Two-Part … Continue reading →

Hi everyone, My daughter sent me this video.  Now some of you may want to try this.  Good Luck!

How could Johann Sebastian Bach have ever thought of becoming anything but a musician?  His is the largest family tree in music.  Almost all his male relatives were musicians–some seventy-six in all, fifty-three of them named Johann! Bach spent his … Continue reading →

“As a young music teacher, Bach was out walking one night when six of his own students attacked him.  They wanted an apology.  Bach had called one of them a “nanny-goat bassoonist”–someone who makes a bassoon sound like a goat.  … Continue reading →

The painting is “Mill on a River” by Claude Lorrain Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 16:34 Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 35:35 Suite No. 4 in … Continue reading →