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September 27 ~ in Music History | Singer Florence Foster Jenkins | Hymn History: Sanctuary | Ukrainian National Anthem from Concert for Ukraine |
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Request a Lesson Time | September 28: On This Day in Music | Music and Mathematics: The Fibonacci sequence | The Widor Toccata Organ Symphony Movement V from Concert for Ukraine | Beethoven’s Archduke Trio | What You Need to Know about Sheet Music | 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST
Book Squad |
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Piano Lesson Registration | Playing the Piano is Hard? | Hymn History: Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart | Hymn History: Here I Am, Lord | Harp: En bateau (Sailing) from Concert for Ukraine | Inverary and District Pipe Band ~ Daily Listening Assignments | J. S. Bach Celebrated International Coffee Day! | 6:30 pm - 8 pm EST
Fairfax Knitters |
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Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 by Ludwig van Beethoven from Concert for Ukraine | September 30: On This Day in Music | Pender Music: Military Polonaise Op. 40 No. 1 in A Major | Piano For Very Young Children | 6 pm - 7 pm EST
AA Open Meeting, |
| October 1
Composers - A | “Suite for Woodwind Quintet” by Scott Pender from Concert for Ukraine | Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice ~ Day Four | October 1 ~ On This Day in Music | Hymn History: What A Friend We Have In Jesus | It’s Vladimir’s Birthday! |
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Last Day of Sukkot
Online Learning Affirmations | October 2 ~ On This Day in Music | Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice ~ Day Five | Hymn History: Great is Thy Faithfulness | Composers - B | Irish Session from Concert for Ukraine |
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Composers - C | Pender Music: Where There is Love | Flute Concertino in D major, Op. 107 by Cécile Chaminade from Concert for Ukraine |
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Feast of St Francis of Assisi
Hymn History: Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee | October 4 ~ On This Day in Music | Composers - D | Clair de lune by Claude Debussy from Concert for Ukraine |
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Request a Lesson Time | Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice ~ Day One | Pender Music: Singing Our Praises | Quotes - A | October 5 ~ On This Day in Music | Simply Piano Teaches You Piano | Composers - E | 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST
Book Squad |
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Piano Lesson Registration | Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice ~ Day Two | October 6 ~ On This Day in Music | Composers - F | Beatles AI | Sonata Latino: Bossa Merengova by Mike Mower from Concert for Ukraine | Keep Up-To-Date with the Student/Parent Portal | 6:30 pm - 8 pm EST
Fairfax Knitters |
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Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice ~ Day Three | Composers - G | October 7 ~ On This Day in Music | “Quia resplicit” from Bach’s Magnificat in D Major | Fall Listening and Coloring Pages | 6 pm - 7 pm EST
AA Open Meeting, |
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Hymn History: Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us | October 8 ~ On This Day in Music | ☦️ Hymn History: El Shaddai | Composers - H | Cool Bass Clef |
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October 9 ~ in Music History | Columbus Day / Indigenous People's Day | Bigtime! | Balalaika Orchestra | How do they make Steinway Pianos? |
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Composers - J | Happy Birthday, Jelly Roll! | October 10 ~ On This Day in Music |
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Hymn History: O Spirit of the Living God | October 11 ~ On This Day in Music | Composers - K | Hymn History: On Eagle’s Wings | From the Way-Back Machine | Hymn History: For the Beauty of the Earth |
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Columbus Day
Request a Lesson Time | Composers - L | October 12 ~ On This Day in Music | Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as Sonata Pathétique | Hymn History: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing | Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice ~ Day Six | 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST
Book Squad |
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Piano Lesson Registration | Incentives: Bravo Badges | October 13 ~ On This Day in Music | Handbells | Composers - M | Halloween Music: The Monster Mash | Day Seven ~ Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice | 6:30 pm - 8 pm EST
Fairfax Knitters |
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Composers - N | Ornaments, Not Just For Christmas | Musicophilia – Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks | Hymn History: The Church’s One Foundation | October 14 ~ On This Day in Music | What Age Should A Child Begin Music Lessons? | Hymn History: The Lord's Prayer | Pender Music: Ave Maria | Halloween Music: Ghostbusters | 6 pm - 7 pm EST
AA Open Meeting, |
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October 15 ~ On This Day in Music | 5 Things Parents Should Do Before Driving To Piano Lessons | Halloween Music: The Addams Family | Composers - O | All about Piano Pedals |
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Halloween Music: The Flying Purple People Eater | Hymn History: Standing on the Promises | Composers - P | Lego Grand Piano | October 16 ~ On This Day in Music | 5 Things Parents Should Do Before Driving To Piano Lessons | Hymn History: Because He Lives |
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Sweetest Day
Halloween Music: Jaws | Manuscript of Mozart’s Piano Sonata K331 Discovered in Budapest in 2014 | Giving Thanks: Day Seventeen | October 17 ~ On This Day in Music | Pender Music: A Prayer for Healing | Composers - Q | Christmas Music, 'Above All Sing Spiritually' | Anniversary of Chopin's Death |
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Composers - R | Piano Lessons For Very Young Children ~ Wunderkeys | October 18 ~ On This Day in Music | Hymn History: Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus | Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks | The Nicholas Brothers |
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Request a Lesson Time | Halloween Music: The Skeleton Dance | October 19 ~ On This Day in Music | 5 Things Parents Should Do Before Driving To Piano Lessons | 40 Days of Thankfulness | Giving Thanks: Day Nineteen | Composers - S | Hymn History: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty | 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST
Book Squad |
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Composers - T | Piano Lesson Registration | Chopsticks! | Halloween Music: Dreams of a Witches’ Sabbath | October 20 ~ On This Day in Music | How to Create a “Practice Nest” | 5 Things Parents Should Do Before Driving To Piano Lessons | It All Started With a Train | Technic Series: Scales and Arpeggios | Keep Up-To-Date with the Student/Parent Portal | 6:30 pm - 8 pm EST
Fairfax Knitters |
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Giving Thanks: Day Twenty One | October 21 ~ in Music History | Super Mario Bros Theme for Piano | 5 Things Parents Should Do Before Driving To Piano Lessons | Pender Music: How Beautiful | Get your Kids to the Keyboard! | Hymn History: Majesty | Hymn History: Amazing Grace | Pender Music: 'Jesus, the Boundless Love to Me' | Halloween Music: “Catacombs” from “Pictures at an Exhibition” | Piano Lessons from the Past | 6 pm - 7 pm EST
AA Open Meeting, |
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Composers - V | October 22 ~ On This Day in Music | Hymn HIstory: We've a Story to Tell to the Nations | Happy Birthday, Franz Liszt! |
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October 23 ~ On This Day in Music | Thanksgiving-ish | Composers - W | Hymn History: O Spirit of the Living God |
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Super Mario Bros Piano | 10 Pianos – 80 Fingers | Hymn History: Count Your Blessings | October 24 ~ On This Day in Music | Halloween Music: Dies Irae | Composers - X |
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Georges Bizet's Birthday | October 25 ~ On This Day in Music | Pender Music: Badinerie | Hymn History: How Great Thou Art | Hymn History: How Great Thou Art | Composers - Y | Vienna Halloween Parade |
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Request a Lesson Time | Hymn History: Since Jesus Came into My Heart | October 26 ~ On This Day in Music | Just in Time for Halloween: Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns | Pender Music: We Believe | Composers - Z | 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST
Book Squad |
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Piano Lesson Registration | October 27 ~ in Music History | Just in Time for Halloween: In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg | Ukrainian National Anthem from Concert for Ukraine | 6:30 pm - 8 pm EST
Fairfax Knitters |
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October 28 ~ On This Day in Music | Pender Music: Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622, Adagio | Just in Time for Halloween: Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod | Hymn History: We’ll Understand It Better By and By | Music and Mathematics: The Fibonacci sequence | Piano For Very Young Children | The Widor Toccata Organ Symphony Movement V from Concert for Ukraine | Beethoven’s Archduke Trio | What You Need to Know about Sheet Music | 6 pm - 7 pm EST
AA Open Meeting, |
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Hymn History: The Heavens are Telling | October 29 ~ On This Day in Music | Hymn History: Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart | Hymn History: Here I Am, Lord | Harp: En bateau (Sailing) from Concert for Ukraine | Blog Posts Halloween Music: Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky | Inverary and District Pipe Band ~ Daily Listening Assignments |
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Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 by Ludwig van Beethoven from Concert for Ukraine | October 30 ~ On This Day in Music | Pender Music: Military Polonaise Op. 40 No. 1 in A Major | A Parent’s Guide to Piano Maestro | Halloween Themes Changed to a Major Key |
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Halloween
Who Knew? Scotland Invented Halloween! | October 31 ~ On This Day in Music | Hymn History: It Is Well With My Soul | It’s Halloween: Toccata and Fugue in d minor by J.S Bach | Happy Halloween - Special Music! | Billy Connolly and the William Tell Overture |
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