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Title: Entertaining as well as Educational
Review: Charles Rosen has a career as a scholar as well as a pianist. Now he combines his two roles, with excellent results - a "good read" and food for thought. He alternates between philosophical and practical and provides entertaining anecdotes about pianists, performances, competitions, recordings.This book should be required reading for all pianists (and teachers) in music schools. Young pianists will benefit most from his ideas about piano literature, sight reading, performances, competitions. While adjustments in the current education process would benefit future performers and teachers, it would also improve the overall foundation for lifelong enjoyment of piano playing.
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