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Stellar article from Schmitz

Thank you for sharing the wisdom of Elie Robert Schmitz in issue 134 (‘Ahead of its Time’). There is so much to learn from this article, and I have had some of the experiences mentioned in the article. During my first and only real piano lessons (at age 50) I was assigned a page in a lesson book and then critiqued at the

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