Merry Mid-Winter Piano Friends! I hope those of you in the northern hemisphere are staying safe and warm in these perilous times. To see you through the storms I have arranged Robert Schumann's piano piece, Traumerei . Schumann wrote Traumerei which means "dreaming" or "reverie" in 1838. According to the LA Philharmonic , Schumann wrote the piece during a difficult time in his life: " Schumann’s marriage to his beloved Clara would not take place for more than a year and the

Yesterday was Public Domain Day! It's a happy day for music arrangers like me who get a new set of songs to arrange for the year, royalty-free! Newly-released Embraceable You by George and Ira Gershwin is so romantic, with a beautiful engaging melody. Though I'm not a fan of Ira's lyric, "Don't be a naughty baby, Come to papa do," I can forgive this cringy, chauvinistic phrase, because the rest of his lyrics are gorgeous. Don't you love the term "embrace?" It sounds so much

Greensleeves is one of the most popular and one of the oldest songs in the western world; everyone knows it, yet music historians estimate that it was written back in the late 1500s! Also known as What Child is This with a different set of lyrics, it's a beautiful song we sing at Christmastime. There is a simple arrangement of Greensleeves in my Upper Hands Piano: BOOK 3 (p.32, with a discussion about suspended chords) so I thought it would be great to provide you with a m