Day: October 4, 2021

  • That fun mountain

    Learning an instrument is like trying to answer this question: do you want to climb a mountain? Even if you hire a guide, in this case a piano or a drum teacher (I know an excellent one, by the way), you still have to climb. And climbing is not easy. There are difficult terrains to…

  • Risky Opera

    I’ve been reading a biography of Mozart lately and I discovered a lot of interesting facts. For example, Mozart sometimes didn’t write some piano parts for his concertos and would improvise them “on the fly” during the performance. For people who are in the know, I am talking about the cadenza, which is the moment…