As you probably know by now, I retired from consulting and seminars on June 1, 2020 (but am focusing on books), and I gave a piano recital for my 75th birthday. Although the plan was to do it as a dinner and a recital with about 35 people, things changed because of Covid, so instead […]
Two Piano Competition
We competed on March 20, 2021 in the US International Duo Piano Competition which is held every year at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. We will compete again next year and have also formed a piano quartet of two pianos, eight hands and had our first rehearsal in mid April. Jan and I played […]
Retirement Thoughts
I have been pondering for some months about when to retire. I used to think that because you love your work, as I do, that you just keep doing it until your brain fizzles out and you can barely move your hands to type. It occurred to me that maybe that was not the right […]
The Piano Tour
Peter and I decided to come to Estonia before Latvia because my grand piano that I bought two years ago was an Estonia piano made at the piano factory here. Once we knew we could get a tour, we made the decision to spend some time in the city of Tallinn. The owner of the […]
While In Bulgaria
Two of the seminars I have done so far have been fairly large – 70 to 100 people. The Cine-Libri seminar in Bulgaria was part of a film festival and focused on adaptation. My friend and former agent, Julian Friedman, discussed the business aspects of adaptation and I talked about the writing aspects of adapting […]
The Story of The Piano
I have worked in the film industry for about 40 years, and my career has been in the field of theater and television and film. I’ve always loved drama and writing, but my background was music. I have now gone back to music and went back to taking piano lessons about a year ago. The […]