Essays on Piano

Starting from an early age, music has been my passion and has taken up a prominent part of my life. Beginning to learn the piano at the age of 3, my interest in music grew when I first won the championship in a junior piano...

“Blind Tom” is not his name. Declared an “idiot” and promoted as “a gorgon with angels’ wings” in freak shows, “Blind Tom” was a character created to market the persona of black inferiority. Blind and cognitively disabled he was exhibited in public by his owner...

I was five years old, small enough to fit underneath the piano that sat in the corner of our family living room. It was there I sat surrounded and captivated by the sounds it made as my eldest sister Katherine practiced for her upcoming piano...

As a pianist, composer and all-time band leader, Jelly Roll Morton who was also known as Ferdinand Joseph LaMotte is rooted as the earliest jazz music arranger of the time. Jelly Morton is also famous for composing chants and songs such as Wolverine blues, Jelly...