Elizabeth Naccarato is a seasoned composer, pianist, and educator. She won her first piano competition at age nine and has received numerous accolades and awards over the years since. With her seventh and latest album, A Southwest Story (scheduled for release July 29, 2022), she expresses her love of the history, culture, and landscape of […]
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Wellness, 2022 Style
Saturday, August 28, 2021, started out like most Saturdays, with a pot of tea and a bowl of cereal and a list of chores to accomplish. My first stop was the post office; packages in the mail, I was headed back home when suddenly I felt very “off.” My entire body began trembling uncontrollably, my […]
ALL IS NOT LOST by Lisa Swerdlow
Despondency and despair: who among us doesn’t experience these from time to time? “All Is Not Lost” was written during the winter of 2020-2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc with lives around the globe. During those bleak weeks and months, when plans were futile and pessimism was rampant, it helped me to remember that […]
Album Review: MEASURES OF LIGHT by Wayne Methanis
Award-winning composer and solo piano artist Wayne Bethanis keeps one goal at the forefront of his work: to share his talent, knowledge and musical creativity with anyone who will benefit. With “Measures of Light,” he has done just that, and so much more. The album opens with the ebullient “Song for a New World.” Released […]
Surrender
I gave up making New Year’s resolutions long ago. Instead, I choose “one word” to focus on every day, all year long, one simple word that summarizes who I want to be and how I want to live my life. Those of you who read this blog regularly might recall the word I chose for […]
TEN THINGS I’VE LEARNED FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
On May 28th, my son and I and a team of helpers loaded our belongings onto a U-Haul truck and drove from our home of nearly twenty years to our “new” (circa 1998) home in a subdivision just five miles away. We have spent the weeks since managing renovations, unpacking boxes, and settling into our new […]
DIVINE PASSAGE by Marshall Barnhouse
Marshall Barnhouse is a pianist, composer, teacher and recording artist who has pursued his love of music since age eight. In every situation, his goal is to guide others into the beautiful, expressive, and spiritual qualities of musical experience. A Glenville State College music education graduate, Barnhouse holds a Masters of Arts in Piano Performance […]
LASTING IMPRESSIONS by Lisa Swerdlow
Lisa Swerdlow’s latest release, “Lasting Impressions” was nearly two years in the making and is a milestone for this accomplished composer and pianist, as it contains her first ventures into both arranging and orchestration as well as her first trilogy. All the solo piano pieces were recorded and engineered by Joe Bongiorno at Piano Haven […]
MEMORIES OF WATER AND LIGHT by Scott Cossu
Based in Olympia, Washington, award-winning pianist and composer Scott Cossu has been performing worldwide since 1980 and was one of the first artists to join the Windham Hill label; “Memories of Water and Light,” a collection of compositions that, according to the album liner notes, “represent water, light and the love for those past and […]
THE LONG ROAD by Monica Logani
Inspired by the death of a close friend, Juliette Calayag Pralle, Monica Logani created “The Long Road,” which has been described as “a spiritual narrative about life and loss.” Many of the pieces on the album are quite short – two to three minutes in length – paralleling the life of Juliette, “whose journey was […]