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		<title>Discoveries &#8211; I</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The piano repertoire is impossibly vast. Just making your way through all of the Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Mozart, Bach, Haydn, and Brahms can be daunting enough. But what about all of those other composers and compositions that are out there? I&#8217;m talking, of course, about the ones that should be heard at concerts and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Don&#8217;t We Listen? &#8211; II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In my last post on this subject, I talked about how important it was to listen to a composer&#8217;s recordings of his own works. I&#8217;ve always been endlessly fascinated by this &#8211; it provides a unique look into the mind and musical thought patterns of composers. And, of course, it&#8217;s tremendously inspiring when they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to it &#8211; and &#8220;Valentine&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 03:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad R. Bowles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow &#8211; this is the first blog entry I&#8217;ve written since December! No excuses &#8211; just laziness! I do have a lot of interesting ideas in the works, though, so keep checking back. In the meantime, something about a wonderful little piece that&#8217;s recently caught my interest. I&#8217;ve been listening to this tune by Jazz [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Harmonica Player</title>
		<link>http://www.chadrbowles.com/blog/2010/12/02/the-harmonica-player/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad R. Bowles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I received an email announcing the broadcast of this documentary on Byron Janis, one of the greatest American pianists of the 20th century, and it brought me back to my student days. One of my teachers was absolutely crazy about his playing and introduced me to his recordings, most notably of the 2nd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pianists Who Move Me &#8211; IV</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad R. Bowles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marguerite Long is not known very well for her recorded output; I had actually no idea that she had made recordings until I recently stumbled on some of her performances of Fauré&#8217;s piano music. The Long-Thibaud Competition, based in Paris, carries her name. She also held a long professorship at the Paris Conservatoire and had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Love This Sonata</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad R. Bowles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I made my last scheduled performance of the Chopin B Minor Sonata for the foreseeable future. I&#8217;ve been performing it in public since February and have only been playing it for about a year, and I have only really loved it about that long. Growing up, I spent endless hours listening to recordings. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joanna Lange</title>
		<link>http://www.chadrbowles.com/blog/2010/06/13/joanna-lange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad R. Bowles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this extraordinary video the other day. This talented woman, Joanna Lange, apparently suffered a stroke  twenty years ago which left her right side paralyzed. She has since spent her time at the piano studying the left-hand repertoire, including this Chopin/Godowsky study. Enough typing, though; this pretty much speaks for itself. A memorable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Don&#8217;t We Listen?</title>
		<link>http://www.chadrbowles.com/blog/2010/04/30/why-dont-we-listen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking with a good friend recently about a Prokofiev piano piece called &#8220;Suggestion Diabolique.&#8221; I had sent him a link to a performance I thought was incredibly vulgar, messy, and unnecessarily violent. I had thought it would get a laugh, but started a very interesting exchange. I mentioned that my favorite performance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enoch Arden Release</title>
		<link>http://www.chadrbowles.com/blog/2010/04/14/enoch-arden-release/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad R. Bowles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring has sprung in New Hampshire! And tomorrow (tax day &#8211; UGH &#8211; ) my second CD for JRI Recordings is released! So, once your taxes are done and you have a chance to take a deep breath, treat yourself! This CD, which I recorded back in 2006 with Bass-Baritone David Ripley, is the perfect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Mr. Rachmaninoff!</title>
		<link>http://www.chadrbowles.com/blog/2010/04/01/happy-birthday-mr-rachmaninoff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad R. Bowles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 1 is Sergei Rachmaninoff&#8217;s birthday. Since I&#8217;m nowhere near a piano today and can&#8217;t celebrate by playing some of his music, I thought I&#8217;d share some examples of why he was such an extraordinary artist. The secret&#8217;s out; he is by far my favorite pianist. &#8220;1&#8230;2&#8230;3&#8230;Happy Birthday to you&#8230;Happy Birthday to you&#8230;&#8221; Enjoy!]]></description>
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