The Steinway Piano Gallery of
Michigan Newsletter - October 2009
CBS Sunday Morning features CCM and
Steinway
Dean
of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Douglas
Knehans, took the CBS crew through the halls of this world-class music
school, which are newly equipped with 165 world-class Steinway pianos
thanks to
a donor’s gift of $4.1 million dollars. “Our piano applications have gone up dramatically already,” said Dean
Knehans. Cincinnati can now count itself among the likes of Juilliard and Yale on the All-Steinway School roster. Read the full press release here.
Western Michigan University celebrates its Steinways
On Sunday, October 18 come to the Dalton Center Recital Hall for an
All-Gershwin concert to celebrate the University’s commitment to becoming an All-Steinway School. Click here for full details and to order
tickets.
University of Michigan Professor Emeritus speaks at the Steinway
Piano Gallery
Dr. James Dapogny gave an inspiring seminar on teaching piano for the Livonia Area Piano
Teachers Forum on October 7. The event took place in the Steinway Piano Gallery Recital Hall, which seats up to 350 and has been
recently used for diverse functions such as audio recording, filming, concerts, recitals, movies and master classes. To find out
what is happening this month, please visit our calendar of events online: http://calendar.steinwaypianogalleryofdetroit.com/.
Lunch with Steinway returns to the Henry
Ford West Bloomfield Hospital The Steinway Piano Gallery is proud to be part of
the Henry Ford Hospital’s Music Wellness program by sponsoring a weekly concert
series, titled Lunch with Steinway. Every Thursday from today through the end of this year, you can enjoy music on a Steinway piano
right outside Henry’s Café while you eat your lunch. Check our website for a lineup of artists, to include pianists,
instrumentalists and more: http://www.steinwaymichigan.com/.
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Michigan welcomes two Steinway Artists to its venues this month
The Bill Charlap Trio played Somewhere: the Songs of Leonard Bernstein for
the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan on
October 2. Mr. Charlap performed on Steinway Concert Grand CD888. Pianist Andreas Klein performed for the Cranbrook Music Guild on
October 13 using CD50.
Fun family activities are right here at the Maple
Arts Academy
“Mommy and Me” art class for preschoolers begins next month – registration
begins now! Find more classes for parents and kids to learn together at: http://www.mapleartsacademy.com/. All activities take place in the newly renovated lower level of the
Steinway Piano Gallery in Commerce
Township.
The Steinway Patent of the Month
Did you know…
This
month in the year 1931 Steinway developed Accelerated
Action, invented by one of the company’s most innovative engineers and
the grandson of Albert Steinway, Frederick Vietor (pictured
above). This patented design allows for the direct
blow action that permits the player not only to play longer without
tiring, but
creates a split-second response to the pianist’s touch – whether a
whispered nuance or a thundering double forte the Steinway piano will
express the greatest demands that an artist puts upon it. For this reason, it is important that the beginner have such a feature in
order to express himself accurately and attain a degree of desired efficiency. At the same time, it is one of the main reasons
concert artists select the Steinway piano without expecting remuneration.
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