Piano Studio of Elise Hayden-Ferdman

"One who knows the secret of sound, knows the mystery of the whole universe." – Hazrat Inayat Khan

True

Some are more metal than metal. Bach Harpsichord concerto in d and Shostakovich quartet…also in d?…. come quickly to mind.

D minor is pretty metal 😄

If Composers were Metal!! 😎🤘🏿

Or more deeply within themselves.

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A dream unfolds 🖤

Thank you to everyone holding the vision of me having my dream piano, shiny black Steinway 1927 model M baby grand 🖤

And an especially enormous, jumping up and down and squealing THANK YOU to Kathy Hayden Horn and Philip Horn for making it all possible 🖤🖤🖤

Rest in Peace, Sinead ❤️‍🔥

A one-of-a-kind singer, performer, and activist. Rest in peace, Sinéad O’Connor.

May his memory live on 😢❣️

Steinway & Sons mourns the loss of pianist André Watts. At the age of sixteen, Watts made his debut under Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic in a Young People’s Concert and then substituted for an ailing Glenn Gould two weeks later in performances of Liszt’s E-flat Concerto with the orchestra, launching his career. He would go on to become the first internationally famous Black concert pianist. Watts had a warm, emotionally rich touch at the keyboard, notably immortalized on record in his many interpretations of works by Franz Liszt, a composer in whom Watts took inspiration and perhaps found a Romantic kindred spirit.

There are some natural rough spots in any endeavor, almost like it’s a law of nature and follows more or less the pattern of the musical scale. Do re mi fa so la ti do. Starting, sounding the “do,” everybody knows is hard. But what a lot of people don’t know is once you get started you feel good and everything going swimmingly for a while. And then, suddenly it all feels like it’s not working. You think maybe it’s a bad idea or you’re not doing it right. But it’s simply that you’ve hit the halftone between mi and fa. It means you have to put a little effort in to keep the process moving. And then things go forward swimmingly until near the end when there’s that last little bit of effort that may sometimes feel like too much. But you need to finish, you need to hit the tonic. You need to sound the “do” again. #CreativeProcess #Resistance #WritingProcess #OvercomingResistance #workingthruit #Creator #Writer #Artist #artistofinstagram #creatorsofinstagram #ImposterComplex #GettingItDone #Finishing #ArtistLife #ArtistLifeHacks #creatorlife #creativitytips #musicforlife #metaphors #metaphor #metaphysics #esoteric