Performance Skills/Scenarios

Question|Title Department Issue Authors
What special practice techniques do your students use for performance preparation? Home practice 1990, 1-4 Donald Morelock, Mary Craig Powell
What do you do to make the recital a happy and successful experience? T/S/P 1991, 2-1 Judy Plagge, Louise Goss, Scott McBride Smith, Carol Noona
What kind of playing opportunities do you plan for your adult students? Adult Piano Study 1991, 2-4 Brenda Dillon, Ellen Shapiro
How do you include technology in your recitals? Technology 1991, 2-4 Paul Sheftel, Kathleen Cizewski, Linda Clary
How do you teach a student to communicate when performing? Repertoire 1992, 3-1 Dawn Costello Miller, Donna O'Steen Edwards
How do you go about correcting rhythmic inaccuracies in pieces which have reached performance level? Rhythm 1992, 3-2 Marsha Woldersberger, Frances Larimer, Marilyn True, Wilma Machover
What is your favorite recital repertoire for 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-year students? Repertoire 1993, 4-3 Kathleen Schubert, Lisa Bastien Hanss
How do I work with different advertising and publicity media to publicize an event? U & Your Piano 1993, 4-4 Judy Lynes
How do you use a sequencer to prepare your own practice/performance disks? Technology 1993, 4-4 Laurel Tiger, Andrea Stennett
What is the new monster concert? Technology 1994, 5-2 Marguerite Miller
How can I liven up my students' recitals? U & Your Piano 1994, 5-3 Mayron Cole, Judy Plagge
How does technology enhance theme recitals? Technology 1994, 5-3 Brianna Kelly, Sharon Elliot Cheek, Maude Ogle
What is the new monster concert? Part II Technology 1994, 5-4 Paul Taylor, Ruth Chown
How can you give your talent away? T/S/P 1995, 6-2 Mary Jane Fleming, Merriah and Matthew Iverson, Brenda Dillon, Natasha Rosow, Danny Percefull, Laura Spitzer
How do you turn a reading performance into a dramatic performance? Music Reading 1995, 6-3 Donna Maxwell, Maxine Berghoff, Tim Brown, Richard Collins
How do you prepare adults to play in public? Adult Piano Study 1995, 6-3 Matthew Harre, Victoria B. Harris
How do you prepare adults to play in church? Adult Piano Study 1995, 6-4 Judy davis, Steve Betts, Judith Cataldo
It's a long walk! How important is stage etiquette at a piano recital? Repertoire 1997, 8-1 Martha Appleby, Claudette Sorel
Do you have any ideas about turning a public performance into a satisfactory experience for adults? Adult Piano Study 1997, 8-2 Nancy Kraft, Anna Belle Bognar, Kerry Carlin
Are recitals necessary? T/S/P 1997, 8-4 Barbara Kreader, with Claire, Andrew, and Anne Berthold; Christopher and Roberta Barlow; Jann Schmedermann; Robert and Karen Vandall
Do you perform in your studio recitals? U & Your Piano 1997, 8-4 Madeleine Crouch with Janet Maffeo, Robin Stewart, Joanne Haroutounian, Joan Cordell, Jeri Brown, Annette hamilton, and Febe Barcia
Do you perform in your studio recitals? Part II U & Your Piano 1998, 9-2 Majorie Wiltse, Dolores Bloodgood, John Bisceglia, Sue Baird, Linda Rohmund, Deborah Yardley Beers
What are the alternatives to a traditional spring recital? (cover story) U & Your Piano 1998, 9-3 John Steinmetz, Stephen McCurry
How do your students practice to prepare for a public performance? Home practice 1999, 10-1 Elvina Pearce, Gail Berenson, Martha Baker-Jordan, Burton Kaplan
How do you check that a recital piece is well memorized? Repertoire 1999, 10-1 Robert Vandall, Karen Vandall, Barbara Wasson
What do your students think about when waiting for their turn to play? U & Your Piano 2000, 11-2 Madeleine Crouch
How can we link pedagogy, performance, and a cognitive approach to coping with performance anxiety?  Motivation 2000, 11-3 Phyllis Alpert Lehrer
How do your students practice to maintain contest and recital repertoire? Home practice 2001, 12-3 Martha Baker-Jordan, Alisa Delliquadri, Anna Harriette Foshee
How do you help students deal with stage fright? T/S/P 2002, 13-2 Barbara Kreader
What are some strategies for developing optimal performance in early level students? Technique 2003, 14-1 Gail Berenson, Seymour Fink, Barbara Lister-Sink
What repertoire have you used for "theme" recitals?   Repertoire 2003, 14-4 Marie Burnette, Noël Hogberg
How do you use technology in student recitals and competitions? Technology 2004, 15-4 Luke Bartolomeo, Shelley R. Reeves
To choreograph or not to choreograph? News & Views 2006, 17-2 Ingrid Jacobson Clarfield

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