Reflection is Shoshana Michel’s fourth released piano solo album and her third as a composer. The positive response to the release of her first album, Soul Whispers, her solo piano arrangements of beautiful songs of Jewish Eastern European origin, led her to resume the challenge of composing; in 2016, a full twenty-four years after she […]
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Mission accomplished!
My long-anticipated week in Sedona was all that I hoped it would be, and more. Last Monday Pinky and I boarded a Southwest Airlines jet, flew from Atlanta to Phoenix, rented a car and drove to Sedona, and checked into the newly remodeled Arabella Hotel. On Tuesday, we joined a sightseeing group and hiked up […]
Fish Taco Friday: Javelina Cantina
I am writing this on Thursday evening, at the close of my first day of recording at Piano Haven Studios in Sedona, Arizona. Engineer and recording artist Joe Bongiorno and I worked four hours and recorded sixteen of the twenty-seven new original solo piano pieces/holiday arrangements I have composed in the past year. Tomorrow I […]
Finally finished!
With my session with Joe Bongiorno at Piano Haven Studio less than two weeks away, I have FINALLY finished composing the last piece of the TWO ALBUMS I plan to record there! That’s right: in less than a year, I have completed 13 new original pieces and 12 holiday arrangements, and I feel myself growing […]