How To Use Mental Visualization To Improve Your Playing

If you want to improve your playing on the piano, one of the best things that you can do is to use mental visualization. Visualization helps you to come up with images in the mind that will help you to improve the way that you are playing. Many people have already found that by using visualization, they were...

Future Arts Research Presents David Elliott Speaking at Bentley Projects,

In Praise of Impurity: Universal Values versus Geo-aesthetics in Contemporary Art Starting with genetic theory, research and a consideration of pre and early history, David Elliott will examine different kinds of pictorial creativity and how influence is, and always has been,...

PHOENIX OPERA’S “TOSCA” AND “AÏDA”

Season ticket packages are now on sale for Phoenix Opera’s upcoming productions of Puccini’s “Tosca” and Verdi’s “Aïda” Following up on its successful December premiere performances of “La Bohème,” Phoenix Opera is presenting “Tosca” on November 14th and November 16th, 2008, and...

The Perfect Movie

A rule of thumb is how often can you watch a movie and still find it enjoyable and new. Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters is one of many movies that I enjoy watching over and over. A recurring theme in Allen’s work is a search for significances and meaning. This movie, with all its twists,...

“Felliniesque”

In a movie review, the writer described a film as “Felliniesque”.  No reference to the director, for whom the term was coined, just – “Felliniesque”. I understood. Federico Fellini, 1924 – 1976, was one of the most influential Italian writer/directors of his day. His...