Day 265: Keyboard Choreography

Today, Thursday, I had the most incredible piano lesson in all of my time if not in my entire life. I'm getting to the important point of my collegiate musical study where I'm becoming even more intuitive and inquisitive about my playing. Today, I was asking an abundance of questions about phrasing, articulation, and balance. Discussing topics like that is when you really start to create music with multiple layers. While we working on a technique portion of my lesson, my teacher came up with a great phrase: keyboard choreography. We were talking about arm movement in relationship to evenness of rhythm and sound. If a discussion like that isn't intellectual, I don't know what is. It was a fascinating lesson and I feel like I'm becoming a better musician by the day. Sunday I get the opportunity to hear a Van Cliburn Competition winner who specializes in Liszt. He will be so brilliant, that I'm sure like all of the other pianists I have heard here will make me want to go practice more. I love it here and can't wait for my next lesson in keyboard choreography.