🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 Happy March piano friends, the month when everyone turns a little bit Irish, raising a glass, singing the songs, and (if you're lucky) playing the piano. I don't know about you, but I need to have some fun to divert from this very dark winter! So instead of offering a soft Irish ballad as I often do, this month I have arranged the rousing Irish pub song, The Wild Rover, also known as No, Nay, Never, one of

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