| How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? |
Practice, practice, practice - and that
is what millions of people across the
country have done for generations.
Piano lessons led to recitals, with
dreams of glory dancing in their heads
- or at the least their doting parents
and relatives. What happened after all
of those hours of agonizing scale runs
and finger exercises? Did it all go for
naught - to be wasted away in parlor
entertainment with endless renditions
of Heart and Soul? Composer Brenda Hutchinson set out across the U.S. to find out - with a U-Haul truck, a piano and a microphone.
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? was produced by Brenda Hutchinson with production assistance from Pay Yoo and made possible by a grant from the meet-the-composer Reader's Digest Commissioning Program in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. Additional support from the San Francisco Arts Commissions Cultural Equity Grants Program. Special thanks to Harvest Works and to Mills College.
Links:
Teens will live every musician's dream
Read this Cincinnati Enquirer article about Walnut Hills High School orchestra's invitation to play at Carnegie Hall.
Carnegie Hall
Explore and learn about this legendary music hall.
Books:
 Piano For Dummies
by: Blake Neely, Jon Chappell, Cherry Lane Music 1998
Piano For Dummies starts at the very beginning and walks you through everything you need to know to turn that oversized hunk of furniture into an instrument that can make beautiful music. Piano For Dummies also includes a glossary and a free CD, which includes audio of all of the examples in the book so that you can play along.
 Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course: Lesson Book, Level One
by: Willard A. Palmer, Morton Manus, Amanda Vick Lethco 1983
A beginning course for adults who prefer a chord approach. It teaches chords for both hands so that the student can play more than single note melodies.
 Piano
by: John-Paul Williams 2002
Williams tells the story of the historical development of the piano from its earliest beginnings.
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