Site contents

Here is a list of all pages on my web-site, organized in outline form.

General

Biography (mostly focused on classical music)
    auf Deutsch (biography in German)
    en français (biography in French, révisée 2007)
    in italiano (biography in Italian, aggiornata: febbraio 2007)
Jazz Biography
Descriptions of current Classical Concert Programs
Descriptions of current Jazz and other Improvisational Music Performance Programs
Reviews and testimonials page
     from the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs (London, England), the Rheinische Post (Düsseldorf, Germany), and others
Lecture-Demonstrations Information Page (includes testimonials)
My general Twitter music page Piano_MA
A second Twitter music page MAPianoVt
    Exactly the same tweets as above, plus additional tweets specific to performances I give in central and northern Vermont
Twitter account foodsong for my non-music personal interests
Link to my blog “Sweet Spontaneous”
Facebook page “Friends of Michael Arnowitt”
Facebook group page “Michael Arnowitt”
mp3 sound samples - excerpts from recordings and live performances
Discography of Michael Arnowitt (first-time ever discography page, with listings of what selections are on each recording)
Calendar of engagements
What’s New archives (most current is on home page)
Classical Programs from Past Years Archive Page
Site Map – complete list of all web-pages on site
Mailing list sign-up

Recordings

Complete discography, with listings of pieces on each recording
Link to Ursa Minor Records page (hass order form)
Description of documentary film about Michael Arnowitt, Beyond 88 Keys
mp3 sound samples - excerpts from recordings and live performances
Beethoven Piano Sonatas CD released

Jazz

Jazz Biography
Descriptions of Jazz and other Improvisational Music Performance Programs
   this page includes information on the following jazz concerts:
   The Five Chinese Elements, The World of Bill Evans,
   A Trip Through The Four Seasons, Ella Fitzgerald Night,
   Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers,
   Exploring Jazz and Classical Music, with Fred Haas,
   Non-theme Combo Concerts,
   Improvisation with the Spoken Word – 3 different programs:
   #1: Langston Hughes (Jammin’ with Langston),
   #2: The Dream Project, #3: Live with David Budbill, poet
mp3 sound samples - excerpts from recordings and live performances
List of jazz tunes I play
Descriptions of original jazz tunes
Jazz charts of original tunes and arrangements by Michael Arnowitt (under construction)
Jazz Educational Offerings
The Five Chinese Elements (an original suite for jazz trio)
“If Music Be the Food of Love...” (a new multi-sensory event combining music and food)
Jazz for Gaza, benefit event for medical aid for a hospital in Gaza

Essay: Why I Love Bebop
Essay: Jazz in Mud Season
Article: Jazz in Vermont: Part 1
Article: Jazz in Vermont: Part 2 (under construction)

Classical Performance Programs

Classical Programs - current
Classical piano program offerings for 2010 and 2011
    Descriptions of all current concert programs, including
    From East to West, three brand-new recital programs
    (one an all-Russian program), Ligeti and his Influences,
    Beethoven & Arnowitt VII, a piano duet program with
    Jeffrey Chappell, the multi-media program Water Music, and more
Pdf version of color brochure of new classical programs 2010 and 2011 (downloadable to your computer)

Information Pages on Individual Classical Programs:
multi-media programs
Water Music (a program of music, photography and spoken readings about water)
“If Music Be the Food of Love...” (a new multi-sensory event combining music and food)
all other programs
Description of György Ligeti And His Influences program
The Composer’s Menagerie (a program of music about animals)
“1911”

Classical Programs – from past years
Classical Programs from Past Years Archive Page
All-Brahms
American Kaleidoscope - a program of contemporary American music
A Program of American Music
Beethoven & Arnowitt VI
Beethoven & Arnowitt V
Celebrating the Century
Chopin Bouquet program for August 2007 concert
Classical/Jazz
Duo Program with Beverley Johnston, marimba and percussion
Europe Tour February 2008 Information Page
Three Programs for Europe Tour - April and May 2007
Three Programs for European Tour - October 2005
    2005 tour programs auf Deutsch (translated into German)
    2005 tour programs en français (translated into French)
    in italiano (translated into Italian)
Folk-Inspired Classical
Gershwin at the Keyboard
Halloween
Homage to Glenn Gould
Charles Ives’ “Concord Sonata”
Latin American Classics
Music & Letters
Music of Jewish Culture
“1911”
New Music program of Contemporary American Music for European Tour 2005
New Music Program (different countries)
Information on New York City performances and film screening
Three Non-Thematic Programs
Perspectives On Our Machine Age
A Program of Preludes, featuring Chopin’s 24 Preludes
Program Notes for Reflections on Time program
A Trip Through The Four Seasons (3 versions)
Vermont Millennium Music Festival – September 2000 (not final version)
Schedule of the Vermont Millennium Music Festival – September 2000 (draft web-page)

Europe Tours information pages
Europe Tour February 2008 Information Page
Three Programs for European Tour - April and May 2007
Three Programs for European Tour - October 2005
    2005 tour programs auf Deutsch (translated into German)
    2005 tour programs en français (translated into French)
    2005 tour programs in italiano (translated into Italian)

Jazz and other Improvisational Music Performance Programs

Descriptions of Jazz and other Improvisational Music Performance Programs
   this page includes information on the following jazz concerts:
   The Five Chinese Elements, The World of Bill Evans,
   A Trip Through The Four Seasons, Ella Fitzgerald Night,
   Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers,
   Exploring Jazz and Classical Music, with Fred Haas,
   The Music of Billy Childs, Non-theme Combo Concerts,
   Improvisation with the Spoken Word - 3 different programs:
   #1: Langston Hughes (Jammin’ with Langston),
   #2: Sylvia Plath, #3: Live with David Budbill, poet

Information Pages on Individual Jazz Programs:
The Five Chinese Elements (an original suite for jazz trio)
“If Music Be the Food of Love...” (a new multi-sensory event combining music and food)
A Trip Through The Four Seasons (3 versions)

Repertoire Lists - classical

Repertoire Lists main page
Selected list of pieces performed in the last few years
Concerto repertory (pieces for piano and orchestra)
Contemporary music repertory (link to my page on Kalvos & Damian web-site)
Wedding music selections and information

Repertoire Lists - jazz

Repertoire Lists main page
List of jazz tunes I play
Descriptions of original jazz tunes
Wedding music selections and information

Educational offerings and Teaching

Lecture-Demonstration: The Music of Poetry
Private Teaching information page
Lecture-Demonstrations Information Page - recently revised, includes information on current offerings such as:
    Frederic Chopin’s 24 Preludes
    The Evolution of Jazz, Part 1: 1900 - 1950
    The Evolution of Jazz, Part 2: 1950 - 2000
    Beethoven’s Sketchbooks
    The Artistry of Ella Fitzgerald
    Music & Letters
    The Music of Poetry
    Robert Schumann’s “Kinderszenen” - Scenes from Childhood
Beethoven’s Sketches (short excerpt from a lecture)

Writings on Music

Link to my blog “Sweet Spontaneous”
Writings on Music main page
Essays and articles (on this site):
Classical
Yom Ha-Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Music and Silence
Vulnerability
I’m hearing concertos everywhere?
Beethoven Journal
Beethoven’s Sketches
Beethoven CD liner notes (excerpt)
Program Notes for “Reflections on Time”
Program notes for “Perspectives On Our Machine Age”
Top 10 Pieces of the Past Millennium
Report on the 1997 Boston Early Music Festival
Why I don’t play chamber music
Thoughts on the Close of the Century
The Sound of Silence (under construction)
The Contradictions of Glenn Gould (under construction)
Philosophy of concert program construction (under construction)
The Ideational School of interpretation (under construction)
Lighter fare: four one-page “Lives of the Great Composers”
      pieces, intentionally written in a modern, hip style;
     originally published in the literary magazine “Big Fish”
     Satie
     Mozart (under construction)
     Beethoven (under construction)
     Ives


Jazz
Why I Love Bebop
Jazz in Mud Season
Jazz in Vermont: Part 1
Jazz in Vermont: Part 2 (under construction)

Writings on Non-music Subjects

Typography
     Signs of the Times - A Typographical Tour of
          Montpelier’s Downtown
Miscellaneous personal interests
My favorite quotations (under construction)
Visual impairment issues
Tips for the visually impaired
The death penalty and the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
     Death Penalty Nothing More Than Administrative Murder
     Ten Reasons Mumia Abu-Jamal Is Innocent
     Links to further information on Mumia Abu-Jamal (under construction)
Privacy issues
     Two articles on privacy issues:
     Big Brother’s Coming To Visit     Part 1 & Part 2
Human rights
     Which Side Are They On?
     Shop ’Til Someone Else Drops?
Bridge (the card game)
Michael’s Bridge Sanctuary (over a dozen articles, listed individually below) Why I play bridge
Kibitzing Zia
Quotes from Zia
My favorite bridge books (and why)
An entry-shifting squeeze in real life
A Russian bridge joke
Once in a lifetime
Declaring and defending a trump coup
The gambit
Never give up (3 NT doubled and vulnerable?)
My best pieces of bridge advice
Colorful bridge slang
Poetic justice
Being a good partner
The smallest finesse
Congratulatory letter from the ACBL, plus a translation
Interesting bridge links (with descriptions)

Press materials

Photos and Press Materials main page
Biography (mostly focused on classical music)
    auf Deutsch (biography in German)
    en français (biography in French, révisée 2007)
    in italiano (biography in Italian, aggiornata: febbraio 2007)
Jazz Biography
Reviews and testimonials page
     from the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs (London, England), the Rheinische Post (Düsseldorf, Germany), and others
Review of a duo concert with Beverley Johnston, marimba and percussion
mp3 sound samples - excerpts from recordings and live performances
Classical piano program offerings for 2010 and 2011
Classical Programs from Past Years Archive Page
Descriptions of Jazz and other Improvisational Music Performance Programs
Mailing list sign-up

Jazz for Gaza, benefit event for medical aid for a hospital in Gaza

Program Notes for “Reflections on Time”
Program notes for “Perspectives On Our Machine Age”

Private Teaching information page
Wedding music selections and information
Persoonal (non-music) interests Non-music personal interests main page
Favorite Quotations page
Tips for the visually impaired

This page last updated May 13, 2012.