Monday, April 29, 2024 | Uncategorized

This spring, Schoen Music Studio and Encore Studio will be holding three Mini Recitals at Grand Lodge at the Preserve (a retirement community) at 4400 S 80th Street in Lincoln on Saturday, 18 May 2024, from 1:00 to 3:00pm.

 
Please plan to stay for the entire time of your mini recital to listen to other students’ performances. And plan to arrive at least 10 minutes before your scheduled performance.
  

As many of you know, I am a member of Lincoln Music Teachers Association (LMTA) and their Music Outreach Program (MOP). One of the requirements of MOP is to hold at least one recital in a senior living residence.

I am especially encouraging students who took the Federation Festival Theory Test but did not perform for the judge to play on this recital. MOP students are strongly encouraged to perform at this recital. Other students are definitely welcome to perform. Repertoire may be the same as the Festival on 6 April, or if you’d like to do a new piece, that’s fine, too. Junior Composer entrants may wish to have their original composition performed. Pieces do NOT need to be memorized.

If you will perform, please go to my website calendar and sign up on which recital (1:00, 1:45, or 2:30) you’d like to perform on 18 May so we can plan the recital program order. If you already know you will NOT be able to perform, please let me know.

This performance will include students of Debra Heald and Nancy Schoen. Number of performers will be limited by the short length of the recital, and participation will be granted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Please do invite relatives, friends and neighbors, to help celebrate your accomplishments!

Appropriate attire for the recital is dresses or skirts, nice slacks, shirt with a color, and possibly a tie; preferably no casual flip flops or tennis shoes, if possible. AND NO GUM OR CANDY!!!!!

If you have any questions about the recital (or anything else) please do not hesitate to ask me.  

I look forward to hearing you perform and sharing that Saturday afternoon with you!  

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 | Uncategorized

Well, who'd have guessed?! This article is about the Keybird, a new portable acoustic piano, weighing in at only 130 pounds. It only has 69 keys instead of 88, missing the lower 1 1/2 octaves. You can even take it apart and it will fit in the trunk of a car!

Check it out here: https://pianopricepoint.com/keybird-a-new-portable-piano/