piano

What Has Cecily Been Doing?

Books, Piano, Ceramics

May 13, 2024 •

What I've learned about piano technique in the last three years

Oct 23, 2023 •

What you don't become: Good Night, Oscar

On that play about Oscar Levant

Jun 5, 2023 •

The Painful Joy of Playing Fast

Chopin's "Butterfly" Étude

Feb 27, 2023 •

The Künstlerroman (or: a mixtape memoir)

Jeremy Denk's Every Good Boy Does Fine

Jul 18, 2022 •

On self-delusion and metronomes

Dec 6, 2021 •

He seems very serious but I don't like Fazioli

Video games and the Chopin Competition

Oct 25, 2021 •

Piano Journal: Clair de lune

Alexa, play Debussy

Jun 28, 2021 •

Piano Journal: Scarlatti

Domenico Scarlatti was born the same year as J.S.

Apr 26, 2021 •

My Music Teachers

I started taking piano lessons the year I began Kindergarten, when I was four.

Dec 28, 2020 •

Piano Journal: Brahms Intermezzo Op. 117 No. 2

The Intermezzo Op.

Nov 30, 2020 •

On Love and Mediocrity

Or: what being a lousy pianist has taught me

Nov 9, 2020 •

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