Sentences with phrase «piano lessons in»

Ray loves boating and classic cars, and even takes some time out to give private piano lessons in his spare time.

She has worked as a private in - home educator and has also taught private violin and piano lessons in her home for many years.

Then you have to clean him and his crib up while the small one wails and your husband is either at work, or teaching a piano lesson in your home downstairs.

Also agree with Charlie Perryess that a critique group is like a piano lesson in that there's a deadline that must be met.

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That means an estimation of all the tutoring, baby - sitting and piano lessons I was giving in high school, which as a rough guess were about $ 6,000 a year for four years, then the $ 1,000 - something I was making flipping burgers, working a cash register or waitressing during the first three years of college, and the $ 2,000 - odd I got during the last two years of business school.

On a lonely two - hour walk home from my piano lesson, seeing an otherwise ordinary sunset, I was suddenly flooded by light and absorbed in a sea of light which, although it did not extinguish the humble awareness of my finite existence, overflowed the barriers that normally separate us from the surrounding world.

They did everything they could to support my fanatical interest — buying a piano at a time when they could barely afford one and paying for lessons with the best piano teacher in three counties.

Yes, much in the same way I would have been punished if I had refused to go to any other event (school, piano lessons, family vacations etc..)

When I think, for example, how my own children, born in Britain and bred in the U.S., have their routine dictated by school and by violin, piano and ballet lessons, and how they move fluently from babysitting for hire to videos for rent and then to microwave popcorn and hotpockets, I realize how our society has learned to dispense with child - inspired patterns of living.

Ah, I've always wanted to learn how to play the piano but had bad luck in my family's instrument «lottery»: my sister got lessons for it but I had to go with a much elless exciting instrument.

It can be hard to juggle school, work, soccer practice, football practice, dance, piano lessons, and whatever else your children may be involved in.

For example, a mother who dreamed of being a concert pianist, but whose parents couldn't afford piano lessons, may insist that her child take piano lessons even though the child has no interest in learning to play the piano.

The best (worst) example in my case is the afterschool snack eaten on the run (between school and piano lessons, for example).

I have taught in a kid's snow ski school, taught beginner piano lessons, and taught Pre-K English lessons in South Korea.

If you can't afford private lessons, perhaps you have a family member or a friend who is skilled in the piano or a foreign language.

Adults can get involved with a walking or senior club, stay fit with an aerobics or conditioning class, or explore their creative side with lessons in piano, concert band, or woodworking.

In my years as lead parent, I have gotten the kids out of the house in the morning; enforced bedtimes at night; monitored computer and TV use; attempted to ensure that homework got done right; encouraged involvement in sports and music; attended the baseball games, piano lessons, plays, and concerts that resulted; and kept tabs on social liveIn my years as lead parent, I have gotten the kids out of the house in the morning; enforced bedtimes at night; monitored computer and TV use; attempted to ensure that homework got done right; encouraged involvement in sports and music; attended the baseball games, piano lessons, plays, and concerts that resulted; and kept tabs on social livein the morning; enforced bedtimes at night; monitored computer and TV use; attempted to ensure that homework got done right; encouraged involvement in sports and music; attended the baseball games, piano lessons, plays, and concerts that resulted; and kept tabs on social livein sports and music; attended the baseball games, piano lessons, plays, and concerts that resulted; and kept tabs on social lives.

I envisioned signing him up for dance, baseball, soccer, piano lessons, anything I could have him participate in, I wanted to sign him up.

When a parent needs to constantly push a child to engage in their piano or Spanish lessons, that child's natural interest can flat line.

A music school specializing in guitar, drums, piano, vocal, and bass lessons.

If your kids are constantly forgetting their music for piano lessons, for instance, warn them in advance: «You're old enough now to take responsibility for your own music, without me reminding you or driving it to you if you forget.»

The tiniest babies are amazing at listening in particular (and they're too young to physically sit at a piano, press keys and attend to formal lessons).

Tuesday: 1 grade bird banding field trip / mommy volunteer in school library / tack practice / piano lessons / soccer practice / finish prep - teach gluten free class

They do schoolwork and then go to soccer practice and then piano lessons and all of these things where they have no control over the actual process that they're engaged in.

While taking private lessons for violin and oboe, Ddendyl taught herself how to play the piano in order to compose her own music.

Participants were instructed to play Super Mario 64 for 30 minutes a day, five days a week, take piano lessons (for the first time in their life) with the same frequency and in the same sequence, or not perform any particular task.

But if her own parents aren't watchful enough, Creasy is willing to devote himself wholly to Pita, even to the point of being shot to pieces in an unsuccessful effort to prevent her kidnapping outside the piano lesson Samuel has insisted she take (though she has declared her preference for swimming, in effect, present bodyguard over absent dad).

This occurs outside the piano lesson Samuel has insisted she take (though she has declared her preference for swimming, in effect, present bodyguard over absent dad), which underlines Creasy's dad function, and also, as Scott notes, shows the character's thinking, by way of a stunning visual composition: «It feels like part documentary, part grabbed real footage, and part opera.

To channel Elio, Chalamet arrived six weeks before filming began in Northern Italy, where the actor, who is fluent in French, spent balmy afternoons learning Italian, taking guitar and piano lessons, and bicycling around.

Saoirse Ronan has thrown herself into piano lessons to portray a vampire musician in upcoming movie Byzantium.The teenage actress stunned director...

His best - known plays include Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984), the Pulitzer Prize - winning The Piano Lesson (1990) and the Tony Award - and Pulitzer - winning Fences (1987), now on the screen courtesy of actor - turned - director Denzel Washington, whose third outing in that role this is, after Antwone Fisher (2002) and The Great Debaters (2007).

The real Florence Foster Jenkins, born in 1868, toured her home state of Pennsylvania as a child piano prodigy, then taught piano lessons until an arm injury left her with no means of support.

Muting the Mozart Effect Harvard Gazette, 12/11/13 «Though it has been embraced by everyone from advocates for arts education to parents hoping to encourage their kids to stick with piano lessons, a pair of studies conducted by Samuel Mehr, a Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral student working in the lab of Elizabeth Spelke, the Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, found that music training had no effect on the cognitive abilities of young children.»

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Nowadays a music coordinator is likely to be someone who perhaps had piano lessons as a youngster, but little further training in music.

We would expect any run - of - the - mill piano teacher to start students with the basics and move them through a sequence of lessons that are hierarchically organized and cumulative in their effects (learning to read music is remarkably like learning to read text).

11 Slides include: An opening quote based around depicting our everyday lives in music Lesson objective An introduction to Debussy, impressionism and the pentatonic scale Appraising task (4 short excerpts of Debussy's piano music) Composition task steps to success Images of the «calm» and «rapid» water motifs Examples of children's graphic scores which represent a journey of water Worksheets: «Calm» and «rapid» water motifs sheet music Supplementary writing sheet for the appraising task Audio files (MP3): 4 short excerpts of Debussy's piano music that portray the flow of water: The Sunken Cathedral Goldfish Reflections in the Water Gardens in the Rain Starter / appraising task: After a brief introduction to Debussy, his compositional style and the pentatonic scale, the children will get the opportunity to listen to four excerpts of Debussy's piano music.

She also takes piano lessons, sings in her church choir, and goes to Bible study every week.

Chin & Phillips (2004) found differences in children's exposure to academic learning experiences (such as camps and academic programs) and opportunities to develop their talents (such as art classes, piano lessons, and organized sports).

Except for piano lessons when I was a kid and a brief spate of guitar playing in my teens, I've never played an instrument.

Between recruiting the best and brightest minds as the vice president of human resources at Berkley Consulting; shuttling the kids to soccer, day care, and piano lessons; convincing her son's teacher that he may not, in fact, have ADD; and making it home in time for dinner, it's a wonder this over-scheduled, over-achieving Harvard graduate has time to breathe.

I started piano lessons when I was in second grade.

She earned a degree in music, and worked for many years as a freelance musician, music teacher, band director, and instructor in private music lessons on harp, piano, winds, and brass.

In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, birding, reading, photography, watching documentaries, and am enthusiastically taking piano lessons as an adult student.

«I became specifically interested in composing when I was in high school, taking jazz piano and improvisation lessons.

At the age of 15, Pedro started his classical training with the Argentinean maestro and composer Roberto Pérez and piano lessons with the Croatian virtuoso pianist Robert Andres, doctorate in musical arts.

As a child in an upper class family in Moscow, Kandinsky displayed a gift for the arts and music, and was given private lessons in drawing, cello, and piano.

Often playing with images and materials associated with beauty and desire, Hamilton repeatedly uses sculptural cut - outs of film stills or women's legs made from transparent plastic and wooden shapes based on Modernist depictions of female nudes such as the curvy abstracted figure found in her 2007 piece The Piano Lesson, based on Fernand Léger's 1921 painting Le Grand Déjeuner.

Yinka Shonibare MBE, Planets in My Head, Music, 2012, Mannequin, fibreglass, Dutch wax printed cotton, child's grand piano, Victorian stool, Victorian lesson music and leather, 115 x 90 x 176 cm, (45 3/8 x 35 3/8 x 69 3/8 in)

Stephen Snoddy will talk about the influence of the paintings of Henri Matisse «The Piano Lesson», «Studio interior paintings», «Conversation» and «Collioure» in relation to his monotypes currently on exhibition.