The Playground

The other day, Leon, Neil Moore’s son and my coworker, shared this super cool image of an old repurposed piano in our office chat [We use a software called Slack to communicate across the Simply Music Team]. And it totally inspired me!! This image, plus…

• Written by Stephanie Iadanza on Sep 26, 2019
• art, fun., Music is life, piano, repurposed piano, simply music, teach

Credit: Fabrizio Paterlini – The Art of the Piano Creating your own original music is one of the most beneficial aspects of studying an instrument and being a musician, even if you’re not especially interested in becoming a composer or a songwriter, and even if…

• Written by Guest Contributor on May 22, 2016
• benefit, compose, composition, create, enjoy, fun., improvisation, improvising, mark meritt, mark s. meritt, original, piano, simply music, the playground, toolkit, tune, tune toolkit

All it takes is a song. Not just any song though, THE song… The one that grabs your attention when you’ve had the radio on for hours but have to drop everything right now because it’s transported you back in time.  It might be your ‘wedding’…

• Written by Mel Karajas on May 11, 2015
• boys of summer, don henley, doris day, fun., handel, medial prefrontal cortex, mel karajas, memory, music, oliver sacks, robin keehn, simply music, some nights, tea for two, toora loora