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Selling Your Soul to the Devil

by The Cross-Eyed Pianist Original Post: https://crosseyedpianist.com/2015/06/17/selling-your-soul-to-the-devil/ Guest post by Michael Low I have a confession: as long as I can remember, I have been a musical snob. When I was a teenager, I dismissed Richard Clayderman as an amateur after listening to Daniel Barenboim’s recording of Beethoven’s ‘Waldstein’ Sonata, ‘Why does Clayderman only have one […]

by The Cross-Eyed Pianist What is your first memory of the piano? Growing up in Malaysia, my first memory of the piano was not a particularly happy one. When I was about 7 my parents decided that I should begin formal music lessons. Unfortunately I had a teacher who was neither sympathetic nor encouraging. I remembered […]