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		<title>Studio Newsletter March 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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New Students
Welcome to the following new students to the studio:
Olivia Melton
Ameerah Wells
Student Opportunities
National Piano Guild Auditions
Registration forms will be given out this week. Click here to go to the Guild website.
Temecula Music Festival
This is available to students who have studied with Yiyi for at least 6 months. Click here for details.
Studio Summer Recital 2010
This will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Quotes and Thoughts &#8211; Feb 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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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 yet distant, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Studio Newsletter &#8211; Feb 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeanne-Marie Darre]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the following new students to the studio:

Hunter Czech - 13 years old
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>Piano Blog &#8211; chopin waltz op 64 no 1</title>
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		<title>Piano Blog &#8211; Brahms Intermezzo op 118 no 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Studio Newsletter &#8211; Jan 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music Teachers Association of California, California Asssociation of Professional Music Teachers, New Student, Group Class]]></description>
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		<title>Piano Blog &#8211; Mozart Piano Sonata K. 333 1st movt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[one of my favorite pieces by Mozart


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		<title>Student Opportunities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yiyi is affiliated with many professional music organizations. The following is a summary of the many opportunities that are available to students at Yiyi’s studio:]]></description>
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		<title>Piano Blog &#8211; Ravel Forlane</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maurice Ravel Forlane from Le Tombeau de Couperin


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		<title>Music Quotes and Thoughts &#8211; Jan 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alban Berg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aleksander Slobodyanik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alicia de Larrocha]]></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 paper. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piano Blog &#8211; Brahms Intermezzo in A major Op 118 no. 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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This is one of my most favorite pieces. I also played this at our holiday recital; this is a better version:) One of the reasons I decided to do a Piano Blog is so I can motivate myself to keep up with my practicing, as we all know how important that is. One of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Recital 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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First studio recital in Murrieta, most of the students are beginners, and only had about 2 months of lessons. Great job everyone! thanks to all who came! see you next time!
To see past studio recitals held in New York, go to the Video Gallery.


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		<title>My favorite Music Quotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Plato]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://yiyiku.com/great-music-quotes/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="100" src="http://images.apple.com/itunesaffiliates/US/2007/04/04/general125x125_blue.gif" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Apple iTunes" 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>Brahms Waltzes op.39</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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One of my most favorite piano duet music of all times. This was played with pianist Anna Vinnitsky at Stony Brook University Jan 25 2009


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		<title>with Leslie Luxemburg &#8211; soprano</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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June 19 2009
Wading River Congregational Church, Long Island New York
Wien, du Stadt meiner Traume By Rudolf Sieczynski (1879-1952)
Leslie Luxemburg &#8211; Soprano


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