PIANO BOOKS

Erika (Isabelle Huppert) is a piano teacher at a prestigious music school in Vienna who still lives with her overprotective and controlling mother (Annie Girardot). Lonely and alienated Erika finds solace by visiting sex shops and experimenting with masochism. rnAt a recital she befriends Walter (Benoît Magimel) a handsome young man whom she seduces and begins an illicit affair with. As Erika slowly drifts closer to the brink of emotional disorder she uses the love-stricken Walter to explore her darkest sado-masochistic fantasies.

This is the story of Ada and her 9 year old daughter, Flora, an arranged family for Stewart, a lonely Englishman working his land among the Maori in the New Zealand bush of the 19th century. Half a world away from their native Scotland and without a notion of what may await them. Ada, who has not spoken since she was six years old, unleashes her passions through the PIANO.

The Pianist, Roman Polanksi’s harrowing depiction of survival in war torn Warsaw is now out to own on DVD. The director reached deep into his own past to deliver the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish pianist of some repute who is forced to eek out an existence amidst the events of The Second World War, where the fear of death at the hands of Poland’s Nazi occupiers was always close at hand.

Adult piano beginners are motivated to play piano for a different reason. Usually, they want to learn piano as a means of self-expression and self-fulfillment. Adult piano books use different piano exercises that cater to adults. So, if you are an adult learning to play, you don't have to be practicing "Twinkle, twinkle little star" or "Mary has a little Lamb". Instead, you can have some adult, fun simple little songs.

Packed with information, this book provides a chord reference for any one who wishes to play jazz. The book explains how chords are built, and used in different performance settings. It covers advanced chord types, blues chords, functions of chords and provides numerous chart for practice and reference.

Biographies, stories and lives of famous piano composers and pianists, both past and present.

The story of Amadeus Mozart, told in flashbacks by Salieri, the court's musician who recognizes Mozart's genius, and who is intensely jealous of Mozart's gift of music.