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		<title>Piano Notes &#8211; Phillip Fawcett</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How long have you been playing the piano?  33 years, since age 12, sparked off by a friend in the first year at Lancaster Grammar School. I didn’t so much as touch a piano before this and took little active notice of any music, although I remember my father playing records of ‘Your Top 100 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=5953&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piano Week &#8211; a piano course for children &amp; adults</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piano Week is a new non-residential piano course for children and adults, set in the beautiful north Wales countryside near Bangor. The initiative of pianist Samantha Ward, Piano Week offers courses for pianists of any age and ability. Participants will have the opportunity to perform on a beautiful Steinway grand piano in Powis Hall at [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=6155&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to pass a music diploma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the rather glib title, there is a serious intent behind this post. As someone who has taken two performance diplomas in fairly quick succession (less than 18 months apart), I want to offer some advice and support to those who are preparing for diplomas. First and foremost, don&#8217;t be under any illusions about these [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=6159&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London Piano Meetup Group launch party</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 11:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The launch of the London Piano Meetup Group at Peregrine&#8217;s Pianos on Saturday 18th May was a very enjoyable and successful event, very well-attended, and friendly. Hosted by Lorraine Liyanage and myself, we had six performers playing repertoire by Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Brahms and Rimsky-Korsakov, and all the playing was of a very high standard. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=6148&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Artist&#8230;&#8230;Robert Saxton, composer</title>
		<link>http://crosseyedpianist.com/2013/05/18/meet-the-artist-robert-saxton-composer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 10:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who or what inspired you to take up composing and make it your career? I started the recorder at school, the violin and piano. I always preferred writing music down to practising! Who or what are the most important influences on your composing?  As a composer, I was influenced technically, and partially aesthetically, by Elisabeth [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=5946&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Britten at 100 &#8211; Simon Desbruslais premieres ‘Shakespeare Scenes’</title>
		<link>http://crosseyedpianist.com/2013/05/17/britten-at-100-simon-desbruslais-premieres-shakespeare-scenes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British trumpeter Simon Desbruslais (Meet the Artist, 5 September 2012) will premiere &#8216;Shakespeare Scenes&#8217;, a new work by Robert Saxton at a concert given by the Orchestra of the Swan on Friday 24 May in Straford-upon-Avon. Robert Saxton was given early composition advice and encouragement by Benjamin Britten, which is well documented in John Bridcut’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=5555&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A walk through 500 years of British Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New hang at Tate Britain This week sees the unveiling of the new hang at Tate Britain, a chronological &#8220;walk through&#8221; 500 years of British art showcasing the Tate&#8217;s extensive collection with old favourites and some surprises along the way. Previous hangs have attracted criticism for taking a radical thematic approach, but this new display [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=6137&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Artist&#8230;&#8230;Bruce Brubaker, pianist</title>
		<link>http://crosseyedpianist.com/2013/05/15/meet-the-artist-bruce-brubaker-pianist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 10:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who or what inspired you to take up the piano and make it your career? My mother brought home from the public library a recording by Vladimir Horowitz. Already, I was studying music and learning to play the piano; but it was those sounds that ignited my musical interest. Who or what were the most [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=5908&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concert review: Quartet for the End of Time at Queen Elizabeth Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fascinating Rest is Noise festival at the Southbank Centre has now reached its mid-point, with the focus on music created out of oppression and war. In Friday night’s chamber concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall two pieces written in the most straitened circumstances during the Second World War were presented: Shostakovich’s Second Piano Trio, a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=6121&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the Piano With&#8230;&#8230;Lucinda Mackworth-Young</title>
		<link>http://crosseyedpianist.com/2013/05/13/at-the-piano-with-lucinda-mackworth-young/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is your first memory of the piano?  Aged four, coming down the stairs in our house to hear my ten year old sister playing the piano very fast. Then I knew that I wanted to play-the-piano-very-fast! Who or what inspired you to start teaching?  The discovery that music, more even than dancing (I had [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crosseyedpianist.com&#038;blog=14197529&#038;post=5540&#038;subd=crosseyedpianist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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