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The Power Of Why: Why 25 Musicians Composed a Legacy: And Why You Should Too. (The Power Of Why Musicians) Kindle Edition
- Discover WHY a UK girl won the John Lennon Songwriting Award, and why an Israeli composer, impacted by the holocaust, became a concert pianist.
- Discover WHY an Indonesian student composed an award-winning anthem, and why an American classical multi-instrumentalist composed a jazz legacy.
- Discover WHY a Canadian Juno Winner was recognized for leadership and why a composer won the “Australian-made” award that led to music schools.
It’s time to discover your WHY and put your creativity to the test - Dream Big and transform your musical mind into a musical masterpiece.
Why 25 Musicians Composed A Legacy: Adrienne McKinney, Dominique Levack, Frances Balodis, Bradley Sowash, Rami Bar-Niv, Kamara Hennessey, Pam Turner, Mark Matthews, Caroline Quinn, Linda Gould, Benny Ng, Elizabeth Garland, Connor Derraugh, Eric Carlson, John Burge, David A. Jones, Julianne Warkentin, Hillary Lester, Joanne Barker, Richard Simonelli, Gillian Erskine, Rick Sowash, Rebekah Maxner, Edy Rapika Panjaitan, and Glory St. Germain.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateAugust 19, 2021
- File size264 KB
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- ASIN : B09CLMBQMB
- Publisher : Gloryland Publishing
- Publication date : August 19, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 264 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 126 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1927641996
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Part of series : The Power of Why Musicians
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,905,978 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #555 in Music Songwriting
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- #1,689 in Songwriting
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Rami Bar-Niv is one of Israel's most acclaimed and sought after pianists. He travels extensively and has become an international citizen, concertizing all over the world. Born in Tel-Aviv in December 1945, Bar-Niv graduated with honors from the Rubin Academy of Music, and was the recipient of various prizes and scholarships. After graduating from the Mannes College of Music in New York, where he studied with the renowned Mme. Nadia Reisenberg, he won numerous competitions, and embarked on a successful concert career. He is heard regularly in North, Central, and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel, where he received the "Best Performer Award" from the Israeli government. Rami Bar-Niv performs as a soloist with orchestras, as a recitalist, and as a chamber musician. He appears in live concerts, on radio, and on television, and is always received with great enthusiasm. Often sent abroad by the Foreign Ministry to represent Israel in concerts, he has become an ambassador of goodwill for Israel. Bar-Niv made history by being the first, and so far the only, Israeli artist to perform in Egypt following the Begin/Sadat Peace Treaty. His recordings for CBS and other labels in Israel and abroad have met with praise and popularity. His compositions are published, recorded, and performed all over the world. He has often been at the top of the charts on various Internet music sites such as MP3.com, YouTube, and many others. Along with his concerts, he has been teaching all over the world, giving master classes, lectures, workshops, and private lessons. Since 2006 he has been offering a week-long piano camp for adults twice a year in the United States.
Glory St. Germain International Best Selling Author in The Power of Why Musicians Series and Over 60 Ultimate Music Theory Workbooks. Glory is a two-time TEDx Speaker and creator of the Ultimate Music Theory Certification Course for Teachers, UMT Teachers Membership Creator, and Coach. She is THE Ultimate Music Theory Expert! Glory shares her story of transformation in "The Power Of Why" Series... And WHY You Should Too!
Glory St. Germain ARCT – Founder/CEO Ultimate Music Theory, brings her remarkably successful business experience to the development of the Ultimate Music Theory Program, Ultimate Music Theory App, Ultimate Music Teachers Membership, and Online Courses including the Ultimate Music Theory Certification Course for Teachers.
Glory is a Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner (NLP) which she incorporates into her teacher training. She has served as President for many Music Teachers' organizations and associations. The Ultimate Music Theory YouTube Channel features new video training by Glory every week.
Glory's passion for teaching excellence sets a new standard of achievement in Music Education in producing continuous training and coaching through her Exclusive UMTC ELITE EDUCATOR Program - Empowering Teachers to Elevate their Income, Impact their Teaching and Grow their Expert Music Teaching Business.
Ultimate Music Theory Workbooks, App and Online Courses - A Proven Step-by-Step System on the Way To Score Success!
"Enriching Lives Through Music Education"
Pam Turner is a composer/arranger, teacher, and church pianist from Atlanta, Georgia. She began piano lessons as a relatively late beginner at age 12 after having been inspired by listening to the pianist at church. She fell in love with the piano at the first lesson, and wanted to become a piano teacher herself. In high school she was an accompanist for chorus classes, and at church she played for children’s choir. Later, she studied privately with the acclaimed Elizabeth Buday at Shorter College, while maintaining a full studio of her own students. At present, she has been a piano educator for 25 years, and a church pianist for 35 years.
Pam began composing in 2014 and has published 19 books of music for piano, ranging from the late beginner level to early advanced. Her passion is sacred music, and she has written many hymn arrangements and a number of original Christian themed pieces. She currently resides in Varnell, Georgia with her husband, three cats, and a dog.
Gillian lives with her family in sub-tropical Brisbane - and enjoys nothing more than walking along the beach on some of Australian world famous beaches that are close to home; Noosa, Gold Coast and Byron Bay. Inspired as a young teacher to find a better way to teach music than her early musical upbringing Gillian co-founded Forte School of Music and Piano Teaching Success. As host for online TV show, and The Studio membership Gillian and her team work passionately to help piano teachers around the world engage, motivate and accelerate success through whole body learning and making music fun!
Gillian has lead the writing teams for all 20 Forte course books, composing many pieces in this series. She has co-authored best selling easiLEARN Theory Books aimed at making theory fun and is a pedagogical composer for piano specialising in Beginner to intermediate level pieces. To inspire others, Gillian has also been delighted to have her stories accepted in The Power of Why series books.
Joanne Barker, UMTC Elite Educator, UMTC Certified Teacher, Pianist, Piano Teacher, Composer, Studio Owner, Program Creator, International Best Selling Author.
Joanne is a 5 Time Contributing Author in the International Best Seller Series: "Power of Why" - " Why 21 Musicians Created A Program"; "Why 23 Musicians Crafted a Course"; "Why 25 Musicians Composed a Legacy"; "Why 27 Musicians Captured the Lead"; "Why 29 Musicians Reached Superstar".
Joanne has created and successfully implemented a Hybrid system of piano lessons which combines weekly group piano classes with regularly occurring “solo” (private) lessons. As a composer, Joanne has used her creative skills to create all of the lesson materials that are used in her studios. To date, she has composed over 300 pieces which are included in her lesson materials, many of which have become favorites of her students.
Joanne was a Panelist for the 12 week “Women of Wisdom Mastermind" from October to December 2020. She was an invited speaker at four Summits in 2021 - The Global Music Teacher Summit, The Global Healing Power of Music Summit, The Global Piano Teachers Summit and The Global Music Composers Summit. She was invited to share her knowledge on many aspects of piano and music lessons as an expert in the area of beginners, group classes, composition and online teaching.
She has been professionally producing games for use in music classes since 2005. In 2012 she began creating games for Ultimate Music Theory. She is now the UMT Creative Designer. Her games are included in the Ultimate Music Theory Supplemental Series and there are 2 Game packs available for purchase from UltimateMusicTheory.com. The games she creates for the Ultimate Music Theory Teachers Membership are enjoyed by teachers and students around the world!
Joanne served as Patient Spokesperson for the Norton and Lucille Wolf Breast Care Center in London, Ontario. The first event was on the one year anniversary of her cancer surgery. She had the honor of standing before the audience and personally thanking Norton and Lucille Wolf for their generous donation to the Breast Care Center. Following that presentation the Foundation event organizers to ask her to do more!
She was invited to be the patient Spokesperson for "Bust a Move", a very successful fitness based fund raiser which raised over 2.6 million dollars over 3 years. She served in that role for 2 of the 3 years the event was held. During this time she was also asked to speak to various groups and organizations in the area to raise awareness of the event and encourage participation. Since then, she has spoken on behalf of the St. Joseph`s Hospital Foundation on several occasions and appeared as a Patient Ambassador in several broad based fund raising mail campaigns, including the hugely success "Dream of a Life Time Lottery". She represented the Breast Care Center as the patient Ambassador on World Cancer Day for 2 separate radio talk show interviews.
As a pianist and organist, she has performed at hundreds of events including memorial services, weddings and other special events. Joanne has been a presenter at many International conferences and workshops. She is a published composer with her pieces appearing in student manuals used internationally.
David is a 3x international best-selling author (The Power of Why - #1 in USA, Canada, Australia, UK), music course creator as recognised by London College of Music (Presto Piano / Keyboard / Theory course) and RSL Awards (Rhythm Warriors Piano Zone Children's Piano Course) plus Composer, Co-Creator, Co-Producer and Music Producer for the multi-million dollar new animated cartoon series "Rhythm Warriors" in co-production with Emofront Pte in association with Sparky Animation Studios. He's also an award-winning film composer (Out of Time 2020 - Amazon Prime).
David is also Director of Presto Music School, the UK's largest independent Music School.
Music has been my life. I am a piano teacher, a music therapist, a course creator, a children's author, an arranger and publisher. I am married and we raised our boys in Seattle, Washington. Gardening, entertaining, walking and hiking are other interests. I am passionate about sharing my God-given gifts of music with others. Music has brought me joy, it has been my healer, and has opened some amazing doors both at home and internationally. I am truly grateful.
Bradley Sowash is a jazz pianist, multi-instrumentalist, and educator specializing in improvisation. After many years as a performing and recording artist, his current focus is introducing "recovering classical pianists" to the joys of jazz/pop improvisation through live online classes and publications. In between, you'll find him on a tractor or horse in the Appalachian foothills of his family farm in southern Ohio.
Adrienne McKinney, accomplished musician, composer, and UMTC Elite Educator, owns and operates McKinney Music Studio and Pianolex Music Publications. She writes music to appeal to pianists of all ages, exploring sounds that are both modern and familiar. Today's students have sophisticated musical preferences, and her music is written to generate enthusiasm and interest for studying all musical genres.
In addition to teaching and composing, Adrienne is a frequent adjudicator for the National Guild of Piano Teachers National Piano Playing Auditions. She also judges local and regional festivals and contests.
Dominique is a composer and songwriter.
Living and working as a composer and DJ in the UK, Hong Kong and Spain,
World music is her passion. A musical time traveller she especially enjoys working with voices, mixing up genres and music from other centuries.
Dominique has released 2 albums, The 6 Betweens, a Tibetan cross over chill out soundtrack with spoken word and The 9 Orders of Angels, a song based trip hop urban soul journey.
In 2020 Dominique was runner up of Metapop Womex Remix Competition and The Ivors Academy partnered Dominique with John Truelove as part of their Mentorship programme.
May 2021 she released of a collection of contemporary piano chill out tracks titled ‘Improvisations’, which builds a world of contemporary piano with Gregorian chants, and electro soundtracks.
https://dominiquelevack.bandcamp.com/
As well as being a composer Dominique works within music therapy, having trained at Nordoff Robbins, London in 2016.
Experienced working with clients across the autistic spectrum, PMLD, Downs syndrome and selective mutism, Dominique meets the person ‘in music’ and seeks connection through it.
www.dominiquelevack.com
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2021For those interested in finding out what are the forces that drive great composers and musicians into dedicating their lives to their art, this book would sure provide the clues. The book includes life stories, experiences, and adventures that Lay people won't ever encounter. It's a window through which the reader can peak into 'different' kind of life experiences.
The book is engaging, captivating, and fulfilling to every intelligent and curious reader. Once you start reading it, you won't want to let go of the book prior to reaching the last page.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2021This book is a beautiful collection of stories and experiences written by music composers. It's an amazing insight into the minds of masters of their craft: in each chapter, a music composer explains why they do what they do, ideas that can be very much lost in our always producing, always striving type of society. The authors' experiences are quite varied, but are united in their aspiration to help themselves and others connect with something bigger, and find healing, transformation and joy. Everyone can benefit from reading these stories!
- Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2021Very interesting collection of accounts of different composers and their passion