New **Complete the 100 Day Practice Challenge and get your name published in Piano Explorer Magazine! Download and print this practice chart!Performed a SYMF duet

Performed 2 memorized pieces for my friends or family

Performed in a musical, choir, or concert

9. How many extra music-related items did you complete?

I tuned my piano this summer (pianos should be tuned twice a year)! Email Ms. Noreen for piano technician references

I attended a concert, recital, or musical

I visited a sheet music store and picked out a new piece

I wrote a piece, drew a picture, or wrote a paragraph for the "I Love Music" contest

Books New

Planning Your Piano Success; A Blueprint for Aspiring Musicians by Dr. Stewart Gordon (one of my teachers)

For high school and adult students: Anatomy of Thought-Fiction: CHS Report, April 2214 by USC Professor Joanna Demers. It is a philosophical novella and a sequel to my previous book, Drone and Apocalypse. I consider the music of artists like David Bowie, Scott Walker, Kanye West, Actually Huizenga, J Dilla, and The KLF, and ask the question: why do we believe things (of popular music, and of life) that we know are untrue? Anatomy of Thought-Fiction is available here, and you can read more about it here.

I really Should Be Practicing book by Gary Graffman

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank

Story of the Orchestra Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Music!

Famous Composers Audible-play it in the car!

Lang Lang- Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story

Music Movies NEW

La La Land (PG-13) Lots of singing and dancing! Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart. https://www.netflixmovies.com/la-la-land-2016

Seymour: An Introduction View Trailer about Seymour Bernstein, inspirational concert pianist/composer/teacher, directed by Ethan Hawke and watch on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video $3.99. I met him at the MTNA Conference!

The Sounds of Music (G) Every student should see this one! $12.99 purchase.

Vitas-Amazon Video $3.99 rental (PG) Trailer Vitus is a 12-year-old boy who almost seems to be from another planet - he has hearing like a bat, he plays piano like a virtuoso and studies encyclopedias. No wonder his parents begin to anticipate a brilliant future for him as a classical pianist. However, the daily pressure of hours of musical practice, his over-protective but well-meaning mother and his father's precarious financial situation lead the boy to seek refuge at his eccentric grandfather's house. Vitus and his grandfather's shared love of flying, mischief and adventure offers Vitus an opportunity at a normal childhood - something the burden of his talent had previously prevented him from. When Vitus employs a ruse pretending he's been robbed of his talent, his future as a piano virtuoso falls at risk.

Mr. Holland's Opus (PG) Amazon Video $3.99 Heartwarming tale about the importance of following your passion.

The Competition (PG) Amazon Video $3.99 Academy Award� winner Richard Dreyfuss (1977, Best Actor, The Goodbye Girl) and Amy Irving (Carrie) are two classically trained concert pianists who find themselves both competing for one of the most prestigious awards in the music world. The last thing they need in their lives is to fall in love, but when they do, how will it affect the greatest professional moment of their lives?

Dead Again (R) Rent from Amazon or Apple store Thriller about composers reincarnated!

Amadeus (Rated R) Netflix. F. Murray Abraham earned a Best Actor Oscar for his imperious performance as Antonio Salieri, a mediocre composer whose churlish young rival, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), wins immortality with his musical genius. Not happy to see his talent eclipsed, Salieri dons a disguise and deviously plots revenge, obsessed with muffling Mozart's maddening laughter.

Shine Rated PG-13 ($2 rental Amazon prime) This moving drama focuses on promising pianist David Helfgott's mental breakdown and re-emergence after a decade of total obscurity to find peace that drove him to the edge his music.

WPS Students: Don't forget to enter the 2017 I Love Music contest too!

Click Here for The Summer Music Fun 2019 Survey-WPS Students, fill out the form as you complete the items and earn composer statuettes and prizes! (WPS Students Only)

Summer Music Fun Links

iphone/ipad Games/(Some available as Android Apps)

Online Videos/Listening

Theory Items

Technique Items

Books **New**

Music Movies **NEW**

Books New

Music Movies NEW