Manhattan Music Lessons: We Reveal Which Great Composers Had Their Plates Full Thanksgiving – a time for good food and great company. It is also an opportune moment to ask this question: if you could invite any classical composer to your Thanksgiving dinner, who would that be? You may have favorite composers, but would you…

Keeping Score, With Manhattan Music Lessons “Musical form is close to mathematics – not perhaps to mathematics itself, but certainly to something like mathematical thinking and relationship.” ~Igor Stravinsky You probably know that learning to play an instrument is not exactly rocket science. We think of music as an artistic, rather than scientific, endeavor, one…

Don’t let your instrument play hooky – make a weekly date with your Manhattan music lessons instructor “That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Are you one of those people who started music training…