The Piano Project of Knoxville placed pianos that are "painted and playable" in the city.

The project was founded by jazz pianist Brian Clay. Clay presented the first three decorated pianos.

The launch party included Clay, the Downtown Knoxville Alliance, Dogwood Arts, the City of Knoxville Public Arts Committee and Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero.

There are just three now, but they hope to install more in the city.

#knoxville #BrianClay #PublicPianos

The use of classical music in classic cartoons started in the 1930s and spawned a whole new learning process for children and adults alike. For example, an episode of Tom and Jerry, the popular cartoon depicting the cat and mouse in a perpetual chase, titled The Cat Concerto, features one of Liszt’s works - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.

#cartoon #liszt #HungarianRhapsody #parent #teacher #learning #lesson

The International Sponsorship Fund was created in 2012 as part of ABRSM's commitment to inspire musical achievement and support music education for people from all across the world.

The fund is open to organisations outside the UK and Ireland that provide musical training, performance opportunities and teacher development, particularly where there are barriers to accessing these opportunities.

We are pleased to announce that the application period for the ABRSM International Sponsorship Fund 2020 is now open. Please note that the application period will close at 12pm on 12 November 2019.

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MEGA discount on preloved pianos (including Yamaha/Kawai) starting from $999
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Ramin Djawadi wrote the score for all seven prior seasons of the medieval Westeros fantasy – and he's still traumatised by the loss of Hodor.

Using cellos to anchor the score, Djawadi, 44, wrote musical themes for dozens of different characters as well as the rival households.

"I liked the tone of the cello, the range of the cello. It can play really low, and this show being primarily a dark show, I just felt it was a great melody instrument for that," he said.

Flutes were banned and the piano only made its entrance in the Season 6 finale with the haunting Light Of The Seven theme when Queen Cersei is silently plotting mass revenge.

#GameOfThrones #RaminDjawadi #TVSeries #theme

Nobuyuki Tsujii was born blind 30 years ago, but a phenomenal talent for music has ensured that he won every prize going in Japan before reaching his apotheosis with a joint win in the Van Cliburn competition in 2009. On the back of that, he’s built a fine career as a recording artist and – increasingly – as a recitalist.

#NobuyukiTsujii #concert #SpecialNeeds #blind

A musician set the world record for the highest ever classical music concert after she played a grand piano up a 5,000m Himalayan mountain pass.

Evelina De Lain, 41, performed Chopin’s Nocturnes No 2 in E flat major and No 20 in C sharp minor during the 90 minute performance.

She also played his “Raindrop” Prelude Op 28 No 15, as well as compositions from her solo album Soul Journey.

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Technically-speaking, what a piano tuner does is really a subset of what a piano technician does. Simply put, a piano tuner tunes pianos and does little else, whereas a piano technician tunes pianos and does much more. Not only is a piano technician a lot more skilled than a piano tuner, he also carries a heavier responsibility in his job.

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Leif Ove Andsnes has long been recognised as one of the leading exponents of the music of Edvard Grieg. The Piano Concerto was the work which launched Andsnes’s international career when he made his debut at the Edinburgh Festival in 1989 with the Bergen Philharmonic, followed one year later by his US debut with the Cleveland Orchestra.

In 1990 he was awarded the Grieg Prize in his native Norway and in 2004 he recorded the concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic and Mariss Jansons which The New York Times named “Best CD of the Year” and Gramophone, Concerto Recording of the Year.

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To date, his music- or sound-inspired artworks have run the gamut. Song-Ming Ang has taken on the world of classical music by, for example, trying to play a Bach piece backward (on a harpsichord for the first time), assembling a piano from scratch and recreating a music stand with glass.

Ang might not be playing music that much these days, but he’s still plugged into the scene. When asked if anything has changed from the days of the Music For Everyone concert series that he tackled in the Venice Biennale,

“There’s a lot of music and a lot of art in Singapore – if people spend their time not just on the surface. You’ve got the Esplanade, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, but also concerts going on in very underground venues that people don’t know about. There are events, initiatives, infrastructure put in place by the government, but at the same time, things that are just independently created – if you know where to look.”

Or perhaps, more importantly, listen.

#SongMingAng #VeniceBiennale

In what seems like an attempt to have the last word in a high-profile break-up, Goo Hye-sun has released a new piano version of her 2014 song Must I Die.

The South Korean actress is currently embroiled in a bitter and very public divorce with actor Ahn Jae-Hyun.

The song release came as a surprise to fans as the 34-year-old had not released any music since her 2016 album And Spring. Moreover, she had mentioned a month ago that she would be taking a hiatus from the entertainment industry.

#GooHyeSun #NewRelease #album