If you have heard the Composition for Kids lecture, you have heard about the Theme and Variations challenge that I have suggested to “encourage creativity.” This last month, I challenged the students in my studio to create their own variation […]
Jingle Bells Variations Read More »
At Wendy’s Piano Studio, students recently submitted artwork for our Christmas Cover Art contest. The artwork was fabulous this year, so congratulations to all of you on being so skillful in your drawings. I have tallied the votes, and the
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Jennifer Linn, the manager of the Hal Leonard educational piano department, has written an informative letter to interested teachers concerning the newly acquired distribution rights of the Faber materials. In this letter, she explains a bit about how the Hal Leonard
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Here is the press release I just received from FJH concerning the selling of the Faber catalogue. On November 30, 2009, The FJH Music Company Inc. (“FJH”) announced the sale of the Piano Adventures® catalog and other publications written by
Prima music is offering 25% off everything until December 8th! This includes my Easy Hymn Solos, Twister, and the new Level 1 piece I haven’t yet announced! Just type in Wendy Stevens to the search box and choose the search
Prima Music Sale – 25% off everything till 12/8 Read More »
Hal Leonard now has the Piano Adventures and Faber catalogue items available in their online store. The books have a slightly different look since they have the new Faber logo and Hal Leonard logo on them. You can see the
Ordering Piano Adventures Read More »
Hal Leonard has posted an official press release regarding the acquisition of distribution rights of the Fabers entire catalogue. Most of these details I have already posted in this previous post, but here is one new comment by Hal Leonard
Hal Leonard Press Release concerning Fabers Read More »
I read a very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about what makes Irving Berin’s “White Christmas” the “best selling record of all time.” Of course, this kind of thing should interest any composer who is the least bit
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By now you know that the Faber’s publications will be distributed by Hal Leonard. The Fabers have announced that you can be looking for updates to their PreTime and BigTime books soon. These should be incredible since they now have
New PA Teacher Support Line Read More »
Well, the word is out amongst the piano teaching boards. Effective December 7th, Hal Leonard will be the official distributor of Nancy and Randall Faber’s Piano Adventures series. They will begin working with the Hal Leonard staff to produce new
Big News from Randall Faber Read More »
Perk Up Practice!
Autumn & Halloween Music
Grab your pumpkin spice latte and listen to composers talk about how to teach their newest autumn & Halloween music! Join hundreds of creative teachers for an uplifting time of encouragement & learning! New MACs released at this webinar!
