Category: Music Community

I won 3rd place and a $10 Amazon gift card for my 4-minute presentation on music mapping and memory!

UofU Friends!

I love having our solo festival at Gardner Hall. It was St. Patrick’s day so we had a treat for all the performers.

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I heard Lang Lang play not one concerto, but two for the Utah Symphony’s 75th Anniversary Gala.  What a performer!  I think he can play pppp and still project to the back of the hall.  He played a Mozart piano concerto and the Grieg piano concerto.  I love attending concerts.  The Grieg concerto had such soothing melodies and I always feel a surge when the strings play passages in unison or at the climactic points!

I was so happy to see that he was greeting people in a reception afterward.  I took him to Temple Square when he was 19 years old and came to play for the Virtuoso Series at Libby Gardner Concert Hall (maybe back in 2000 or 2001).  I helped Becky Durham with marketing, concert production, hospitality (picking up guest artists at the airport), and whatever else she thought of.  I never got a photo and although he remembered coming to Utah to play, I don’t think he remembered me.

Long live Lang Lang!

I’m posting some pictures of the Bountiful Davis Art Center’s play-a-thon last weekend.  My son and I were able to participate as players and I was a team lead from Sunday, 10 PM to Monday, 2 AM.  I didn’t think anyone would sign up for those late night times and I would get to practice, but it turns out that Doc Lloyd Miller (Jazz legend), my friend’s brother and her niece as well as another Bountiful local took those time slots.  At least I was able to play on Friday morning and Harrison played on Sunday (7:40 AM)!

I’m excited to have such a classy venue and fabulous instrument for performing!  It will be a great addition to my studio recitals.  Every time we pass the center I will think, “I played a small part in getting a great instrument to the stage” and I hope others that contributed will feel the same.  Great music and art, side by side.  What could be better?  Oh yes, let’s add “great food.” If you missed it, you can still contribute by visiting http://www.bdac.org, then click on the piano tab.

 

www.slcstreetpianos.com.  In Ogden you’ll find painted horses on the streets.  In Park City, you’ll find painted moose, but in Salt Lake City for a few weeks you’ll find painted pianos.  The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has pianos by British artist, Luke Jerram, in Salt Lake City from June 15-30.  Other cities include Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Geneva.  Saturday with my husband, we found 6 of the 10 street pianos in Salt Lake City.  What a fun activity.  Walk around the city, spot a brightly painted piano with no one playing it, sit down and try it out.  I, of course, enjoyed playing some more than others and I only had to ask one person if I could have a turn.  The all-green piano by the Gallivan Center was going to be occupied for a long time, so I decided just to check it off my list and move on.