April 7, 2009

Pianoholics Anonymous

Filed under: Diary Entries — Tags: performing, piano technique, practice — Florestan @ 6:07 pm

Taken from the old website. Original post date: June 12, 2005

One of the most common questions a pianist can ever be asked is: “How much do you practice?”
Years ago, I decided to permanently remove the word ‘practice’ from my vocabulary. Somehow that word has always conjured up images of an oxygen-deprived cubicle consisting of a student repeating passages over and over again until they resound in complete hysteria.

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