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		<title>Learning correctly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The reality is that you are improving your brain when learning piano! You are actually making yourself smarter and improving your memory; this is why learning the piano correctly has so many benefits, such as success in school, the ability to better cope with everyday problems, and the ability to retain memory longer as you ]]></description>
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		<title>Schumann Arabesque Op 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 19:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words of inspiration from Schumann: “It is music&#8217;s lofty mission to shed light on the depths of the human heart” “We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.” Share and Enjoy]]></description>
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		<title>Perfection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yiyiku</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently an adult student said to me during her lesson: &#8221;Do you know what I realized, it will take years before I can perfect these pieces&#8221;. I am happy that she has come to this revelation &#8211; she has set a higher standard for herself; knowing there is room for improvement is the first step to ]]></description>
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		<title>Chopin Nocturne F sharp major Op15 No 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yiyiku</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[♫ Piano Blog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words of inspiration from Chopin: “Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.” “There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.” “[…] in a ]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from CD</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yiyiku</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[✏ Teaching Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Ashkenazy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass,  a window for the composer’s music” – Vladimir Ashkenazy – Russian conductor and virtuoso pianist I have a new student in my studio who is extremely musical, has self-taught to play many popular songs from watching YouTube videos, but is just beginning to learn to ]]></description>
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		<title>Method books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yiyiku</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[✏ Teaching Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelangelo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://yiyiku.com/method-books/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="100" src="http://yiyiku.com/welcome/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/IMG_04741-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="Katie" /></a>One of the nice things about social networking (facebook, twitter, myspace) is that you learn something new everyday. Today while browsing my friends&#8217; updates on facebook I came across this quote: &#8220;The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too ]]></description>
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		<title>Finding a Piano Teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yiyiku</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Quotes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yiyiku.com/?p=2293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://yiyiku.com/finding-a-piano-teacher/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="100" src="http://yiyiku.com/welcome/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Picd-025-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="Xya" /></a>Today I heard from a former student whom I taught at East End Arts Council while I lived on Long Island, New York. I was very glad to hear from her mom that she is now doing very well with her new teacher. This was not always the case. She had a different new teacher ]]></description>
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		<title>Buying a Piano</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yiyiku</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a new student of mine got her first acoustic piano! It is a used upright piano, but of a good brand and in great condition. The student had been practicing on her keyboard for over a year before coming to my studio, but shows immense talent and motivation. I am happy for her that ]]></description>
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		<title>Music Quotes and Thoughts &#8211; Feb 2010</title>
		<link>http://yiyiku.com/music-quotes-and-thoughts-feb-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yiyiku</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cesar Cui]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chopin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guiomar Novaes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feb 22 2010 &#8220;After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.&#8221; - Oscar Wilde Yiyi&#8217;s thoughts: beautiful words. After hearing Chopin, one feels as if one has heard that beautiful melody before; it sounds so familiar ]]></description>
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		<title>Studio Newsletter Feb 2010</title>
		<link>http://yiyiku.com/studio-newsletter-feb-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yiyiku</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Studio News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeanne-Marie Darre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Piano Guild]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://yiyiku.com/studio-newsletter-feb-2010/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="100" src="http://yiyiku.com/welcome/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Picd-022-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="Xya - 4 years old" /></a>Welcome to the following new students to the studio:
Xya Friedman - 4 years old
Meijke Balay-Mickelson - 10 years old

National Piano Guild Auditions

Group Class

Music Quote of the month
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		<title>Music Quotes and Thoughts &#8211; Jan 2010</title>
		<link>http://yiyiku.com/music-quotes-and-thoughts-jan-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yiyiku</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alban Berg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aleksander Slobodyanik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alicia de Larrocha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aristotle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claudio Arrau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[famous pianists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gina Bachauer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Igor Stravinsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jose Iturbi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Noda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonard Bernstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lili Kraus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Perahia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf Serkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Horowitz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a continuation from my earlier post &#8220;My Favorite Music Quotes&#8221; &#8211; that page is getting too long, so I am starting a new page for the new year. Jan 22 2010 &#8220;I learned to read notes before I learned to read letters. There were notes in a row on a piece of ]]></description>
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		<title>My favorite Music Quotes</title>
		<link>http://yiyiku.com/great-music-quotes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yiyiku</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aaron Copland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert Einstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonin Dvorak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artur Rubinstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artur Schnabel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arturo Benedetti Michelangelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beethoven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Britten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brahms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Ives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chopin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Felix Mendelssohn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Zappa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Gershwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gustav Mahler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henri Rabaud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Threadgill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Pass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lewis Mumford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis-Hector Berlioz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miles Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orlando Gibbons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pablo Casals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Hindemith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Charles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Schumann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergei Rachmaninov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Hugo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virgil Thomson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Ashkenazy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Pater]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yiyiku.com/welcome/?p=1257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://yiyiku.com/great-music-quotes/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="100" src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=TXAByiM3sKk&amp;bids=146261.10001919&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="" /></a>I often come across great quotes about music and composers while reading or browsing the internet for music related articles and research. In this post I will endeavor to post a new quote everyday, one that moves me and makes me say to myself "so true"]]></description>
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		<title>Funny Music Quotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yiyiku</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ed Gardner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ernest Newman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank McKinney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gioacchino Rossini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Gould]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gustav Mahler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Igor Stravinsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jascha Heifetz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonard Bernstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schumann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Thomas Beecham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woody Allen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a subcategory of my earlier post "Music Quotes I love". These quotes may not have particularly deep and soulful meanings, but they are funny!]]></description>
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