Dwayne Cannon
My blogs
| Location | Paris, France |
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| Introduction | I AM an American pianist and teacher living Paris, France. I studied piano (B.M.) at Shorter College near Atlanta, Georgia, briefly at Louisiana State University, and finally at the Sorbonne in Paris (M.M.). THE TITLE of my blog may seem contradictory, since the jazz world has so completely appropriated the term 'Blue Note'. Though I'm a big fan of the genre, I'd like to reclaim the term in the name of classical music, for it was the writer George Sand who coined it in describing Chopin's music. " Et puis la note bleue résonne et nous voilà dans l’azur de la nuit transparente..." OF COURSE the reference to Chopin has a more primary significance. I am currently doing an in-depth study of the opus 10 and 25 Études, and I felt compelled to keep this journal of sorts. I'll talk about the difficulties of learning these works, the problems encountered and to how to resolve them, as well as any number of (probably useless) digressions that might pop up along the way. |