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The Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 28 ม.ค. 2021
The official TH-cam Channel of the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs (WFMC), part of the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC)
Katherine Fisher - Chinese Lanterns
Composer and Pedagogue Katherine Fisher talks about her piece "Chinese Lanterns" which is featured on the new 2025-2028 Federation Festivals Bulletin piano solo list.
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Find the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs online at wfmc-music.org/
You can purchase "Chinese Lanterns" from the Piano Safari Website here: pianosafari.com/product/chinese-lanterns/
Find the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs online at wfmc-music.org/
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Kevin Costley - Playing in the Sunshine
มุมมอง 224 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
Composer Dr. Kevin Costley talks about his piece "Playing in the Sunshine" which is featured on the new 2025-2028 Federation Festivals Bulletin piano solo list. You can find Kevin's publications on the FJH Music Company website: www.fjhmusic.com/authors/display.php?id=40 Find the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs online at wfmc-music.org/
Keith Snell - Meet the Composer
มุมมอง 749 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
Composer Keith Snell recently sat down with us to talk about his journey as a composer, pianist, and pedagogue. 0:00 Introduction 0:38 Keith's musical family 2:35 When did you start composing? 5:08 What challenged you to become a better composer? 6:38 Do you teach composition? 7:45 What challenges to composers and editors face today? 10:51 Keith Snell Repertoire books 13:47 Resources for moving...
Tom Gerou - Square Wheels
มุมมอง 2912 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
Composer Tom Gerou talks about his piece "Square Wheels" which is featured on the new 2025-2028 Federation Festivals Bulletin piano solo list. You can find Tom's website with many high-quality piano pieces here: tomgeroumusic.com Find the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs online at wfmc-music.org/
Catherine Rollin - Owl in the Night
มุมมอง 5014 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
Catherine Rollin discusses her piece "Owl in the Night" from her book "Bean Bag Zoo Collector's Series Book 1" which is featured on the new National Federation of Music Clubs 2025-2028 Festival bulletin piano solo list. You can find all of Catherine's publications here: catherinerollinmusic.com/publications/ Find the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs online at wfmc-music.org/
Scott Price - Deep Green Sea
มุมมอง 7416 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
Composer Scott Price talks about his piece "Deep Green Sea" which is featured on the new 2025-2028 Federation Festivals Bulletin piano solo list. You can watch a performance of this piece here: th-cam.com/video/HltMMKprZQE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ME_Owd-D0-eFDGn9 You can find this piece along with many other pieces by Scott Price here: tomgeroumusic.com Find the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs online...
Suzanne Dawson - The Original Helicopter
มุมมอง 3621 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
We recently had a conversation with composer Suzanne Dawson about her piece "The Original Helicopter" which is on the new National Federation of Music Clubs 2024-2028 piano solo list. You can find Suzanne's publications here: kjos.com/person/view?id=1610 Find the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs online at wfmc-music.org/
Christopher Goldston - Meet the Composer
มุมมอง 75วันที่ผ่านมา
Composer Christopher Goldston recently sat down with us to share his views on composing, seeking creativity and inspiration, and the challenges of writing music for students. 0:15 Introduction 1:04 What was it like growing up in a house with a well-known composer? 2:28 When did you start composing? 3:00 The importance of the National Federation of Music Clubs in Christopher's career 3:57 Who nu...
Glenda Austin - Autumn Waltz
มุมมอง 31วันที่ผ่านมา
Composer and pianist Glenda Austin recently sat down with us to discuss her beautiful piano piece "Autumn Waltz" from the book "Lyric Waltzes". You can find all of Glenda's publications here: www.halleonard.com/biography/209/glenda-austin You can find Glenda's TH-cam channel here: youtube.com/@glendaaustin6802?si=WqLUSHTW_TpOqXjp Find the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs online at wfmc-music...
Wynn Anne Rossi - Purring Cat
มุมมอง 58วันที่ผ่านมา
Wynn-Anne Rossi discusses her piece "Purring Cat" from the book "Daily Comforts Book 1" which is featured on the new Federation Festival Bulletin. You can find Wynn-Anne's website here:www.rossi-music.com You can find Wynn-Anne's TH-cam Channel with performances of her compositions here: youtube.com/@rossimusic212?si=Kfjpqe-AIWNWv643 Find the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs online at wfmc-m...
Chee Hwa Tan - Coming Home
มุมมอง 3614 วันที่ผ่านมา
Composer Chee-Hwa Tan discusses her piece "Coming Home" from her book "Once Upon a Journey Book 1" which is featured on the new National Federation of Music Clubs 2025-2028 Festival bulletin piano solo list. You can purchase Once Upon a Journey book 1 here: pianosafari.com/product/once-upon-a-journey-book-1/ You can find a video of Chee-Hwa performing this piece here: th-cam.com/video/EK6_iUrFH...
Carolyn Miller - Midnight Reverie
มุมมอง 6114 วันที่ผ่านมา
Composer Carolyn Miller discusses her piece "Midnight Reverie" from her book "Dreams and Imagination" which is featured on the new National Federation of Music Clubs 2025-2028 Festival bulletin piano solo list. Find the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs online at wfmc-music.org/
Kai Ono - Meet the Composer
มุมมอง 4214 วันที่ผ่านมา
New-York City based Composer, music educator, and multi-instrumentalist Kai Ono talks about his path to becoming a composer and gives us some insight into his compositional process. 0:15 Introduction 0:36 Kai's family background 0:54 Kai's earliest music lessons 1:59 Kai's supportive family 2:45 What drew you to composing? 4:14 Who inspires you to compose now? 5:10 Kai's feelings about having a...
Scott Price - Centipede Shoes
มุมมอง 16714 วันที่ผ่านมา
Composer Scott Price talks about his piece "Centipede Shoes" which is featured on the new 2025-2028 Federation Festivals Bulletin piano solo list. Listen to a performance of this work here: th-cam.com/video/RCy9qL0QBmc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=z3jeA3w tX4lKxI You can find this piece along with many other pieces by Scott Price here: tomgeroumusic.com Find the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs online at w...
Mona Rejino - New Beginning
มุมมอง 13814 วันที่ผ่านมา
Composer Mona Rejino discusses her piece "New Beginning" from her book "Reflections and Relaxations" which is featured on the new National Federation of Music Clubs 2025-2028 Festival bulletin piano solo list. Here's a performance of this piece by Mona: th-cam.com/video/qY4Vqyp6cW0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=dsYBy4PQ3ExornNw&t=8 Check out Mona's TH-cam channel here: youtube.com/@monarejino5394?si=jY93_Vhn2U...
Wynn Anne Rossi - Fresh Falling Leaves
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Wynn Anne Rossi - Fresh Falling Leaves
Kai Ono - When a Finch Hops Onto a Pile of Leaves
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Kai Ono - When a Finch Hops Onto a Pile of Leaves
Julie Hague - Whirling Snowflake Waltz
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Julie Hague - Whirling Snowflake Waltz
Christopher Goldston - Spider's Masquerade
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Christopher Goldston - Spider's Masquerade
Jason Sifford - Whiffling Through the Tulgey Wood
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Jason Sifford - Whiffling Through the Tulgey Wood
Always fun to hear about the inspiration and concepts within each piece - lovely!
Thanks for watching!
What Level on the Piano Solo list? Can you please include levels when highlighting music from the bulletin? Thanks Sam!
Actually, no, we're not allowed to disclose the level of pieces in the bulletin. Sorry, this wasn't our decision.
I was really help by Glenda's explanation of the phrasing in this piece ,Autumn Waltz. Love knowing that Chopin inspired Glenda to write this piece for the Medium Class for Federation .
That's the hope with all of these videos... we hope teachers will get some great insights about teaching these pieces directly from the composers!
Fabulous to see the endless creativity shared by modern composers!
So fun to hear about these wonderfully creative pieces! Wonderful interview, Sam and Suzanne!
Suzanne's pieces are great! I hope everyone finds out about them. They're sure to be student favorites!
What a great interview! I hadn't put it together that he was Margaret Goldston's son!
Thanks for your kind words about the interview! I think these interviews are a great way for all of us to get to know the composers whose music we all teach and love!
I've loved listening in to Carolyn's music. Thanks for sharing!
YES to playfulness with words & rhythm! Love that!
Her music is so outstanding! Students always love playing her pieces!
Fabulous composer to feature and have loved following Kai's work in the past couple years!
Lots of really wonderful ponders in this interview!
It was great getting to know him! I know the students who play his works are really going to love them!
I remember Joyce was on staff at UW La Crosse in the nineties. Am I remembering right?
You're exactly right! She impacted so many lives as a professor of music at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse!
You are on FIRE with this fabulous series! Wonderful pieces and so fun to hear from the legend Dennis Alexander himself!
Aww shucks! Thanks so much for your kind words! It has been a huge amount of work, but it has been so interesting speaking to so many amazing composers!
Oh that's awesome! I was wondering if you'd coordinated your shirt choices! It was awesome!
@@MotifMusicStudios AH! You saw it! Thanks for watching to the end. This was our second interview, so I wore a shirt like the one I saw him wearing during the first interview. It was so much fun! Dennis is such a lovely person and so easy to talk to !
FABULOUS to see Chrissy on your channel!
She is so brilliant! There will be a second video with her on composing in a few weeks, too! I don't know if you saw my jaw literally drop when she told me how many published arrangements she has, but that was completely unstaged. I'm so happy she was willing to take the time to talk with me!
I added a link to a video of Martha performing this work to the description.
Thank you Martha for this behind the scenes look into your lovely piece, Moonlight! Your teaching tips will be so helpful! I wish you had played it for us! Thank you for sharing this, Sam!! 👏👏👏
You can see Martha performing this work here: th-cam.com/video/aavLsoWpkqY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=calzIKaHjwj2BreZ
Pulling an artistic performance out of an elementary student - yes! Great interview.
These interviews give us *so* much knowledge as teachers! It's so inspiring. I feel like I'm getting a private masterclass each time I watch one!
An AMAZING collection and fun to see this piece highlighted!
It's a great collection and it was so wonderful to hear Catherine play this piece and talk us through it!
I love the William Gillock connection! How lucky she was to have him as a mentor.
It's been interesting, she's not the only composer who mentioned Mr. Gillock's mentorship. I truly wish I could have interviewed him.
Fabulous series and love hearing about all these musical gems! Kai's piece are so engaging and original!
I so relate to this struggle with staccato playing as a student! DEFINITELY was a sticky technical feature for me!
This is such a fun piece! lovely to hear your interviews!
Thanks so much! We love teaching Kevin Olson's pieces! They are always student favorites.
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Thanks for letting us know! We've updated the link in the description.
Thanks for these wonderful introductions! I've only recently been introduced to Keith's vast library!
Love that phrase shaping is top tier for a focus point!
What insights, what inspiration! How about writing a memoir, Joyce?
cool piece Dr. Price!
Another very special opportunity to hear from Catherine Rollin and I loved hearing about her descriptive ideas in this piece!
It's so special to get to hear directly from Catherine what students and teachers should focus on in this piece!
Catherine Rollin composes with deep musical and technical understanding, with humor, and with love. I'm so glad that she continues to produce music and is unafraid to have an online publication presence. Everyone, please try her compositions whenever possible. They are a delight to learn and, in her words, "sound harder than they really are", but are full of profound technique and artistry, and above all are accessible. Highly recommended: Rollin's "Pathways to Artistry" series. The technique sub-series is especially meaningful. Thank you, Sam and Ms. Rollin!
Thanks for your kind words, and yes, "Pathways to Artistry" is an AWESOME resource!
Joyce Grill, you are an incredible inspiration! What an entertaining interview. 😀❤️
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
A composing LEGEND indeed. I have taught her music since 1998 and clearly remember those Bean Bag Solos - always studio favourites!
Thanks for watching! We're big fans of your channel and we're so glad you're here!
Well done Martha, beautiful piece!
More fabulous introductions - fabulous!
What a deeply thoughtful person and musician Ms. Tan is, and her compositions reflect exactly that. Thank you!
She is brilliant, incredibly knowledgable, and entirely engaging! It was so much fun talking with her!
A total joy! And so many colorful stories!
What a wonderful interview! Thank you, Sam. Joyce Grill's music has also been on the RCM list of repertoire and etudes, at least since 2015. Her compositions are indeed distinctive, accessible, and rewarding.
You are rocking this series! Love you speaking out and introducing all these wonderful contemporary composers!
Love Jason's adventurous pieces!
Thank you, Sam! It's such a joy to share the stories behind the music.
Thank you, Wynn-Anne, for the awesome interview! It was so much fun talking with you and hearing all of your insights.
Such a fabulous series and great to hear from all these wonderful contemporary composers! Wynn-Anne shines bright!
Love the thought of a 'lingering caffeination' and extending that experience! Lovely thought!
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying these!
Great interview, great piece, and great person! Love all of Scott’s pieces!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the interview. Scott's pieces are certainly awesome!
I always love Kevin Olson’s music. I’m glad he says we can “steal” because he’s one composer I want to learn more from!
Watch for lots more interviews with composers with lots of great advice about composing coming soon!
We've used this piece a lot in our studio!
It's so much fun and I know students are going to love it!
Great interview!
Thanks!
Great learning about a specific pice from the composer ! Asking the student to hear orchestral sounds, in different areas of this piece, is a great was to approach artistic imagination.
Phillip has so many awesome ideas to help students learn pieces! Thanks for watching!
Wonderful interview, Sam! Such an awesome idea to interview the composer and give us an inside view of these pieces!! Thank you!!😊🎶
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it! There's lots more to come!
What a thoughtful, friendly teacher Kai Ono must be!
It was a really fun interview!
Wonderful to see Kai Ono featured! Loved seeing him working alongside My-Melodies with Brock Chart!
That's WAY too fun that those pieces were also about people in Kai's life! SO fabulous and wonderful!
'birdification' is my new favourite word!
He's such a talented composer and we had a lot of fun chatting!
You two make a dynamic duo!
Aww shucks! It's easy to turn out great interviews when your interviewees are all super talented, super interesting, and beloved by this community!
I'm just not techie Sam. How do I subscribe? Joyce G
If you visit this page th-cam.com/channels/zsfTb9-KJXhqp2grTfxxhg.html there should be a button that says "Subscribe".
I love my Boxy!!
Done. Tough road, getting subscribers!. But it's a worthwhile journey, considering the cool friends you make along the way!
Thanks, Wynn-Anne!
What an inspiration, to listen to this interview! Thank you, Sam!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Superstar!
Really appreciate Jason's music and input as an educator and composer!
One of my favorites!