Musician In 1979 I returned to Texas Tech University to study with william westney, PianoAward Winner I had hopes of becoming a concert pianist, a dream I had after my http://cherrykilgore.com/music.html
Extractions: Keyboard Artist/Composer I began studying piano at the age of nine. My first year of lessons was from a country piano teacher in rural South Carolina - Mrs. Palmer. I was awarded for being the best student after my first year of lessons. Mrs. Palmer was a very kind southern belle who never raised her voice and was always sweet with her students. The harshest words from her mouth if I made a mistake were something along this line, "Cherry, I believe you played a little A instead of a little B." I loved playing the piano and by the end of my first year of lessons I was playing all the hymns in the Methodist and Baptist hymnals, and all the latest pop music. Mrs. Palmer taught me how to read music, not just memorize and perform a piece. The summer after I turned ten, my family moved to Lubbock, Texas. After arriving in Lubbock, my parents enrolled me in lessons with the most prestigious piano teacher in town - Mrs. Catuogno. Her husband, Louis Catuogno, taught piano at Texas Tech University. They had both studied music at Yale University. Her students entered every competition and played in the National Guild Auditions. Her training was good, but very strict. I was introduced to classical music and was discouraged to play anything that was not part of my repertoire that I was to be practicing. I started composing during junior high and placed in a local composition contest. However, Mrs. Catuogno did not encourage the composing, but rather concentrated on technique, memorization, and performance of the classics. I won almost every competition I entered, placed second in the
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Piano Pedagogy We all recall breakthrough moment in our training as pianist. student at Texas TechUniversity where I was studying with artistin-residence william westney. http://www.usao.edu/sweber/Piano Pedagogy Pages.htm
Extractions: This page contains musings on a variety of subjects related to piano performance and pedagogy. Memory: Beyond Remembering The subject of memorization for performance has become a hot issue among pianists and teachers over the last few years, with parties on either side making compelling arguments for or against memorization in live performance. The issue continues to cause a stir among pianists and teachers as it is often a featured topic at workshops, conventions and in periodicals. This article will not deal with the pros and cons of memorization in performance. The purpose of this article is not to choose sides in the debate. The issue of concern here is "what do psychologists know about memory and how can we apply that information to our discipline?" Most studies on memory generally agree that memory has three stages or aspects; acquisition, storage and retrieval. Acquisition is the actual process of learning the information to be recalled later. Storage, the second stage, is the system of organization chosen to file the information for recall. The final stage, retrieval, if often thought of as the "remembering" part of memory. It is important to acknowledge that memorization is a process. It is something that is done consciously and with a specific intention. Certainly, exposure to music being studied allows for much information to be stored and recalled, and repetition is one of the key principles for memory. But security in recall hinges on the effectiveness in the acquisition and storage stages. Students often believe that memory lapses are simply caused by their inability to remember the material, when in actuality memory lapses are likely due to ineffectiveness in the acquisition and storage of material.
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Extractions: v. 2, no. 1/January 1, 1999 Stephen Weber is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, where he teachers studio and class piano, accompanying, piano pedagogy, music fundamentals, and music technology. He maintains an active schedule as a solo and collaborative pianist and workshop clinician. In 1997 and 1998 Dr. Weber received university awards for teaching excellence and for scholarly activity. Dr. Weber was a winning composer in the 1994 National Conference on Piano Pedagogy Composition Competition, for which he also served as panelist for two workshop sessions. He has recorded on the Opus One label and has over 60 published compositions to his credit, nearly half of which are for piano. His publishers include Concordia Publishing House, H.W. Gray Corporation, Permus Publications, Voice of the Rockies, Warner Brothers and Zalo Publications. Weber has received annual awards from ASCAP since 1994.
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Polish Music Journal 5.2.02 - Herter: Stojowski - Bibliography 20 (November 28, 1946) 3, 15. Obituary Stojowski is Dead; Polish pianist,76. The New York Times (November 6, 1946). westney, william. http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/PMJ/issue/5.2.02/stojowskibbl.html
Extractions: Vol. 5, No. 2 , Winter ISSN Adrianowska, Kazimiera A. "Zygmunt Stojowski." Bia³y Orze³ 6 (June 1944): 6-7. Aldrich, Richard. Concert Life in New York . New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1941. Anon. "Chwila Bie¿±ca" [The Current Moment]. Biesiada Literacka no. 43 (October 25, 1901): 334. Anon. "A New Cultural Endeavor, Polish Institute of Arts and Letters Formally Opened at the Roerich Museum in New York." Poland America 13 no. 5 (May 1932): 219. Anon. Interview with Stojowski from El Comerico, Lima: August 1934, in Stojowski Students' Bulletin (February 1935): 1, 4, Zygmunt and Louisa Stojowski Collection [hereafter: ZLSC]. Anon. "Z listów do 'Bluszczu'" [From Letters to 'Ivy']. Bluszcz no. 49 (November 24, 1902): 585. Anon. "Polska w Ameryce" (Poland in America). ¦wiat no. 3 (January 17, 1920): 8. Anon. "A Priceless Fan." International Music and Drama (January 21, 1915): 8-9. Anon. "Program Notes for 'Rapsodie symphonique, Op. 23.'" London Symphony Orchestra (June 7, 1908), ZLSC. Anon. "Program Notes for 'Rapsodie symphonique, Op. 23.'" San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (August 26, 1930), ZLSC.
Grand Quotes I like the action on the Yamaha piano. It s always supremely even. william westney, pianist, pedagogue and published author. http://www.yamaha.com/publications/accent/Accent104/24_grandquotes.html
Music prizewinning pianist and noted educator william westney helps readers rediscovertheir own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music. http://www.sirreadalot.org/lists/musicL.htm
Extractions: Home Alternative Strings : The New Curriculu m by Julie Lyonn Lieberman (Amadeus Press) Celebrated improvising violinist Julie Lyonn Lieberman in the introduction to Alternative Strings challenges teachers " Why can't the learning experience from the middle school classroom to the conservatory offer a process of exploration, discovery, creativity, and joyfulness while making music? ". More East Meets West The Russian Trumpet Tradition from the Time of Peter the Great to the October Revolution by Edward H. Tarr, with a Lexicon of Trumpeters Active in Russia from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth ( Bucina: The Historical Brass Society Series No. 4 : Pendragon Press) Anyone who has left their homeland to make a career in a foreign country is interesting this study is devoted to such people, or at least to the m usical, trumpet-playing among them: Wilhelm Wurm, Willy Brandt, Oskar Böhme, Max Schlossberg, and Vladimir Drucker. Wurm, Brandt, and Böhme were German musicians who emigrated to Russia, where they remained for the rest of their lives; Schlossberg and Drucker were Russians who settled in the United States. More KISS : Behind the Mask: The Official Authorized Biography by David Leaf Ken Sharp (Warner Books) Only The Beatles and The Rolling Stones have more gold records and KISS continues to be ranked as one of the top grossing touring acts worldwide. We know they're outrageous, but who are these men behind their masks?
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American Music Teacher: Presenters And Sessions - Illustration Monday JJ Penna Language, Rubato and the Vocal Sunday pianist Judy Plagge A FreshMonday Approach to HymnBased Literature for Worship william westney Do Your http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2493/is_4_53/ai_113523926
New Titles In The Music/Media Library westney, william. The perfect wrong note learning to trust your musical self. Pianomusic. Selections. Young pianist s guide to Bartók. Lebanon, Ind. http://www.umkc.edu/lib/gen-info/newtitles-music-jan.htm
Extractions: UMKC MERLIN Catalog Site Map Search Site ... Just for You Books Scores Videos Recordings ... Other lists The following materials were added to the library during January 2004. For additional information about any entry use the MERLIN Library Catalog link at the top of this page to search the online catalog. This alerting service is designed for the UMKC community and based on the information contained in MERLIN. If you would like to suggest a title or subject area for purchase, please send us a note using the Online Purchase Request Form . If you want more information about the libraries' collections, send a message to Marilyn Carbonell According to the Rolling Stones. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2003. Acosta, Leonardo. Raices del jazz latino. English. Cubano be Cubano bop : one hundred years of jazz in Cuba. Washington : Smithsonian Books, c2003. Ayotte, Benjamin McKay. Heinrich Schenker : a guide to research. New York : Routledge, 2004. Routledge music bibliographies. UMK MNL Music Ref. ML134.S25 A95 2004.
UU World: Novels By UU Authors, By Kenneth Sutton By william westney. Amadeus Press, 2003; $24.95 . The author, a concert pianist,aims to help music students recover the joy and enthusiasm with which young http://www.uuworld.org/2004/01/bookshelf2.html
Extractions: To submit your book for this column, send a copy along with information about how to order it and your UU affiliation to UU World , 25 Beacon St., Boston MA 02108. Due to volume, we cannot include every title and cannot return books. Preference will be given to books of general interest; self-published titles will be included selectively. Little People: Learning to See the World through My Daughter's Eyes. By Dan Kennedy. Rodale, 2003 ; $24.95. Joining a journalist's objectivity with a father's love, Dan Kennedy offers a glimpse into the reality of dwarfism. Drawing upon his own family life, medical and historical research, and interviews, Kennedy introduces the reader to individuals with dwarfism and raises complex ethical questions about the role of difference in human life. Kennedy, senior writer for the Boston Phoenix , is a member of the Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church in Danvers, Massachusetts.
Always On Sunday Schedule 17. CiCi Chieh Chang began her studies at the age of four with her mother,the renowned Chinese pianist, Shan Shan Chu. william westney, Oct. 31. http://www.winthrop.edu/news/releases/archivereleases/fall1999/always.htm
Extractions: July 27, 1999 Here is the schedule: * Natalia da Roza, Sept. 5 Natalia da Roza serves as professor of music and head of the piano area at Georgia State University. She holds a bachelor of science degree in music education from Nazareth College, a master of music degree in performance from Holy Names College and a doctor of musical arts degree in performance from North Texas State University. She has given recitals throughout the United States, Spain and the Far East and is in demand as a lecturer and adjudicator. Da Roza maintains an active private studio of outstanding pre-college students. **Canceled as of September 1st** * Emile Blondel, Sept. 19
Texas Tech Turns 75 - A Diamond On The Plains Robert Walzel made Artie Shaws Clarinet Concerto seem like his own, and lendingthe stage a Carnegie Hall feel as pianist william westney played Liszts http://www.redraiders.com/techs75th/
Extractions: A-J Entertainment Editor A-J PHOTO: Ann Reece talks with former Governer Ann Richards Friday during the Texas Tech 75th Anniversary Gala reception at the Texas Tech Museum. Texas Tech Health Science Center President Dr. Smith. (A-J Photo / Brad Farris) Billed as a concert titled "Celebrate," the program also boasted an ongoing tale revolving around a despondent Tech mascot, a tuxedo-clad Raider Red. Happily for Raider Red, the finale found Tech Chancellor John Montford announcing from center stage that the initial $162 million of his $300 million Horizon Campaign for Tech already has been raised. Montford also pulled a few rabbits out of his figurative hat, making sure that the show - and financial figures - were heard in person by Texas Speaker of the House Pete Laney and former Texas governors Preston Smith, Dolph Briscoe, Mark White and Ann Richards. Co-hosts Ann Sanders Oliver and G.W. Bailey earned a plethora of laughs, though it was difficult to determine how much was scripted by Norman A. Bert and how many ad libs were hilariously tossed in by Bailey.
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Faculty At The Adamant Music School And the pianist managed the fiendish runs of the final variation with aplomb his BMin music from Texas Tech, where he studied with william westney and received http://www.adamant.org/faculty.htm
Extractions: Paul Alberts has performed extensively in the United States and in Europe. His early studies were in Philadelphia with pianist, Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist for the Curtis String Quartet. After a move to New York City, Paul studied with Adele Marcus and received a scholarship to attend the Juilliard School where received a Master of Music degree as a student of Beveridge Webster. Since 1980 he has coached with Seymour Bernstein. Paul maintains a private piano studio in New York City. A recent review of his CD in "Clavier Magazine" described his playing as, "…Satisfying by the most critical standards. The playing is brilliant for the Schubert and romantic for the Mozart, and pianist Paul Alberts maintains a high level of creative imagination through both performances." "Someone who chooses such hallmark works for a first recording should have something new or deeply felt to say, and Alberts does. Pianistically solid, he conveys a subdued yet steady view of the whole and shows a delight in variety that serves him well through the sequences and 33- minute span of the Schubert. Nuances of tone color, resilient phrasing, and a reserve for long-range climaxes are evident from the start. The Andante reveals the full range of Alberts' imagination with lyric intensity."
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Extractions: Adamant Music School Builds on Momentum Sculpture Exhibit and Round Barn Concert Return to Lineup; QuarryWorks Adds Performances The Adamant Music School's 60th anniversary celebration last year was a catalyst for many new offerings at the School located just north of Montpelier. Adamant's summer 2003 series of events promises to build on last year's programs of music, theater and the visual arts with expanded schedules and enhanced exhibits. The traditional series of concerts at Waterside Hall features members of the world-renowned Adamant faculty as well as program participants. This year's season runs from July 13 to August 8. Admission is $5, $2.50 for st dents and seniors for the Sunday 3PM and Wednesday 8p.m. concerts. Friday evening performances are free and begin at 8p.m. This year noted educator and performer William Westney of Texas Tech University will be conducting a series of "Un-Master Class" workshops from July 31 to August 2 at 11AM. In addition to the series of piano concerts on campus at Waterside Hall, 2003 marks the return of the popular Joslyn Round Barn concert on August 3, at 7p.m. Admission is $5 and the proceeds will benefit the Green Mountain Cultural Center. QuarryWorks theater group will expand several of their performance runs to two weeks and add a second weekend matinee. This year's presentations include Camelot (July 10-13 and 17-20), Alice in Wonderland (July 24-27) and Twelfth Night (August 7-10 and 14-17). Performances are at 7:30p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings with a Saturday matinee at 1p.m. and a Sunday matinee at 2p.m. Admission is free.
