The Playground

What would be a child’s dearest dream? Go to Disney? Meet her favorite athlete or movie character? Isabelle McGrath wished for a blue piano.  At age 8, Isabelle was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, a form […]

• Written by Guest Contributor on Mar 27, 2013
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As songwriters (just as parents of teenagers), we are at once blessed and cursed to live in the current era of technological accessibility. The sheer amount of options available now for recording songs and sending […]

• Written by SM Admin on Mar 27, 2013
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We asked Stephanie some questions to gain some insight into her role here at Simply Music, what lights her up musically and some facts that make her the person she is. Your full name: Stephanie […]

• Written by Stephanie Iadanza on Mar 27, 2013
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With my Simply Music students, I do a lot of improvisation and composition. It’s one of my favourite aspects of being a musician, having been writing songs and creating instrumental pieces for most of my life. […]

• Written by Guest Contributor on Mar 27, 2013
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Let me say from the outset that David Byrne is one of my all-time heroes. I may not have pursued music at all without the revelations that were Remain in Light and My Life in the Bush of […]

• Written by Gordon Harvey on Mar 27, 2013
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I’m excited about this forthcoming year. It’s shaping up to be like no other. A couple of weeks ago, the entire Simply Music staff, from Australia and the USA, gathered in Sacramento, locked ourselves away […]

• Written by Neil Moore on Jan 30, 2013
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Patricia Bartell is a pioneer in the study of classical accordion, international championship winner and judge, and now co-developer with Neil Moore of the brand new Hohner-certified Simply Music Accordion program. Here she talks with […]

• Written by Neil Moore on Jan 30, 2013
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Zippo lighters or piano teaching? Luckily it was piano teaching that won out. Even though Texas single mom Kim Nelson had never played piano she wasn’t going to let that get in the way of […]

• Written by SM Admin on Jan 30, 2013
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Gustavo Dudamel, “The Dude”, and Dreams Come True have a lot in common. When he was a child in Venezuela, this dynamic conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic would line up all his toys on the floor […]

• Written by Guest Contributor on Jan 30, 2013
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“On a recent visit to my in-laws at an assisted care living center, I got to witness my daughter Molly Fisher, give an impromptu concert to the residents living there. When she started playing, the […]

• Written by SM Admin on Jan 30, 2013
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