Concert Blog – Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo on concert economics, creative entrepreneurship, and culture
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Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo on concert economics, creative entrepreneurship, and culture
Concert Blog – Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo on concert economics, creative entrepreneurship, and culture
1y ago
Colin Tribe’s new book offers new possibilities for ukulele players who aspire to fingerpick their way through thirty of the most popular songs of all time. These chord melody arrangements show a variety of ways the high G ukulele can be used for instrumental solo or duet (such as chord accompaniment and melodic fingerpicking ..read more
Concert Blog – Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo on concert economics, creative entrepreneurship, and culture
2y ago
This 31-page book of four hand piano music is sheer FUN with a capital F. The composer Heleen Verleur knows just what pianists love playing: music that is easy to read, sounds hard to play, but is so much fun that you don’t want to stop until it ends. Commissioned by the Groninger Piano Festival ..read more
Concert Blog – Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo on concert economics, creative entrepreneurship, and culture
2y ago
This 40-page book is the latest contribution to the ukulele repertoire by the UK-based ukulele and guitar composer Paul Mansell. Guitarists who play the ukulele are few and far between, for many adult learners pick up the ukulele without knowing the guitar. Yet it takes a guitarist who understands the possibilities of the re-entrant tuned ..read more
Concert Blog – Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo on concert economics, creative entrepreneurship, and culture
2y ago
Review of first three pieces from the new book Modern Pieces for Ukulele by Paul Mansell ..read more
Concert Blog – Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo on concert economics, creative entrepreneurship, and culture
3y ago
Introducing my first group piano class online: Group Piano Class in Zoom. The one-hour class starts on Thursday June 24, 2021. Seven one-hour classes in Zoom. Highly interactive and custom tailored to the participants. If you already play the piano, you may want to continue playing the piano without having to take private lessons. You ..read more
Concert Blog – Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo on concert economics, creative entrepreneurship, and culture
3y ago
Chief Noda, as he was affectionately called, would be 64 years old on 29th March 2021. When he brought his Ubass for the Beatles’ Carpool Karaoke jam session on Thursday 12th July 2018, Chifuru Noda certainly wouldn’t have known that he’d not live to see his 64th, 63rd, or 62nd birthday. None of us knew ..read more
Concert Blog – Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo on concert economics, creative entrepreneurship, and culture
3y ago
Since lockdowns cascaded across Europe and America, I have been hosting an online, interactive song session called “Three Chord Thursdays.” Each Thursday, we ukulele enthusiasts (whether vocalists or instrumentalists) meet for an hour to share songs of a particular theme, category, or era. It’s entirely free to join by registering in advance for the login/password ..read more
Concert Blog – Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo on concert economics, creative entrepreneurship, and culture
4y ago
Music can soothe, heal, and unite. The song that comes to mind is “Ode to Joy” in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Unlike other symphonies, this one features the human voice. Its power is discussed in the documentary “Following the Ninth” – which I hope to get the link for everyone to watch BEFORE our Sunday global ..read more
Concert Blog – Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo on concert economics, creative entrepreneurship, and culture
5y ago
Today five virtuoso musicians met for the first time. Quartet San Francisco (QSF) was warming up in Gilman Chapel in Cedar Grove Cemetery. They had just driven up from Rhode Island where they were staying for a string workshop and concert at the university in their concert tour of Rhode Island, Boston, Lexington, and Martha’s Vineyard ..read more
Concert Blog – Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo on concert economics, creative entrepreneurship, and culture
5y ago
What a delight and a surprise to see the melodic counterpart to Daniel Ward’s first book “Arpeggio Meditations” — six of which serve as accompaniment to the pieces in his new book “Melodic Meditations.” Like the previous book, each piece is carefully noted and represented in both notation, tablature, chord name (diagram), fingerings for right ..read more