Resources

To illustrate the all-welcoming reach of Creative Health for Pianists I invited friends, colleagues, and strangers to contribute performances of some of my compositions. To my delight and eternal gratitude, concert pianists, piano teachers, beginners, amateurs, the confident and the diffident took part. Their clips cover perhaps 70 or 80 percent of the book’s basic materials, though of course not the infinite variations that the materials allow for. There are professionally recorded performances, smartphone home videos, baby grands, uprights, electronic keyboards, a harpsichord, an accordion, a guitar.

Below are the pieces from my friends and collaborators, identified by title and placement within the book. Unless otherwise indicated, recordings use a piano or an electronic keyboard. Performers have sometimes added embellishments, tweaks, transpositions, and improvisations. This is a natural part of music making, and I explicitly encourage it in Creative Health for Pianists. On various occasions the performers offer two or more interpretations of the same piece, making changes to tempo, articulation, dynamics, and pedaling. This, too, is completely natural and to be encouraged. A few pieces have been recorded by more than one performer.

I hope you’ll enjoy seeing and hearing what your fellow explorers have done with my modest creations.

Chapter 1, “Dialogue”