I was very fortunate to take piano lessons from a young age, and the only times that we were able to play on Steinways was at our recitals, which were really nerve-wracking. Partly because we got to play on a Steinway.
People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.
Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.
I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital.
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.
Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.
I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.
I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.
I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
