We've just heard of a brand new publication by Australian Virginia Lloyd, taking a historical AND contemporary look at girls and their relationship with the piano. Are we going to buy it? Of course we are!Read the publishers' blurb here.
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Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Girls at the Piano, by Virginia Lloyd
We've just heard of a brand new publication by Australian Virginia Lloyd, taking a historical AND contemporary look at girls and their relationship with the piano. Are we going to buy it? Of course we are!Read the publishers' blurb here.
Friday, 8 March 2013
96 years ago, before there was an International Women's Day
Whittaker is sorting through a donation, and encountered Rev H. R. Haweis' book, Music and Morals. Intrigued, we glanced at the contents page. The heading, 'People who play the piano' looked interesting. Are pianists more or less moral than other folk?
"Most young ladies play the piano as an accomplishment. A girl's education is as much based on the pianoforte as a boy's is on the Latin grammar, and too often with similar results." [...] " ... the piano makes a girl sit upright and pay attention to details ..."No, it's not being added to stock. Good to know that times have changed a bit, though! See my earlier posting, today.
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