Peter from Skylight

YouTube video by John McArthur - Topic Arioso from Cantata BWV 156 by J.S. Bach (Transc. for Piano by Max Pirani)

🎶 Monday melody...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=hQaz...

#ClassicalMusic #classicalpiano #pianosky

Jack DeJohnette, Revered Jazz Drummer, Dies at 83

RIP, Jack DeJohnette... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs in response to pandemic overhiring Figure represents nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter. The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees. This would represent the largest job cut at Amazon since around 27,000 jobs were eliminated starting in late 2022. Continue reading...

Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs in response to pandemic overhiring

🎶 I’m drawn to shaping inner voices as I play...

...but sometimes a smaller piano, with a “close” and warm sound offers a moment to focus purely
on the elegance of melody...

#classicalmusic #classicalpiano #pianosky

An album that slows time...

#nowplaying #nowlistening #contemporaryclassical

YouTube video by John McArthur - Topic Funérailles, S. 173

music.youtube.com/watch?v=mfz-...

✨💡Special thanks to Aion Entertainment
for lighting the way at our concerts this past season
to showcase the historic German Church St. Paul's New York!

📸 Fadi Kheir

Thrilled to have Miho Saegusa perform Winkelman's "Ciaccona" to open our 2025 season 🎻✨

📸: Fadi Kheir
🎨: Chrissy Angliker, (detail of) Late Blooms (2024), courtesy of Massey Klein Gallery

According to the American Bankruptcy Institute, individual Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings have increased 15% during the first 9 months of 2025, compared to the same time period in 2024.

For the first time, mosquitoes have reached Iceland, a clear sign of a planet in rapid flux. As the Arctic warms four times faster than the rest of the world, even the cold's last refuge is no longer mosquito free.
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Saw her play in Paris this summer and have been listening to this record since...

#nowlistening #nowplaying #jazz

Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video | TechCrunch Looks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends.

Wikipedia’s traffic is down -8% year over year driven by the rise of AI overviews in search and young people preferring to get their answers from TikTok.

It’s still startling to me how many technology trends I thought permanent were actually just generational trends.

A reminiscence of Lilacs…

(Rachmaninoff)

#classicalpiano #pianosky #classicalmusic

Contaminated air is linked to dementia, stroke, asthma, heart disease & pandemics

Clean air isn’t a luxury, it’s public health

Together with Smart Air UK, we’re helping schools & vulnerable homes breathe easier this October

go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/76TBlzW
#CleanAir #IndoorAirQuality

This album has become a daytime go-to.

...just makes the light shine brighter

#nowplaying #jazz

YouTube video by John McArthur - Topic Myrthen, Op. 25: I. Widmung (Transc. for Piano by Franz Liszt)

🎶 ❤️ Monday music...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=bil-...

#classicalmusic #classicalpiano #pianosky #liszt

The corporate myth is that embracing AI will get you results that are cheap, fast and good with fewer employees.

The reality is a lot of companies will find out they got things done for a lot cheaper and a lot faster but if definitely wasn’t good.

🎶⏳ Music is so often connected to story.
The story of this music took shape over 25 years.

Explore at:
www.johnmcarthurpiano.com/pages/stream...

#classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianosky #oceanphotography

🎶 🎹
Earl Wild calls on the considerable resources
of the piano & his own creativity
in replacing the voice in Vocalise.

Through some very elaborate writing
Wild’s fingerprint is unmistakable

but without distracting from
or diminishing Rachmaninoff’s intent.

#classicalmusic #classicalpiano

"Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom."

10 tips on writing (which apply to much of life) from Jeanette Winterson (one of my 10 favorite living writers)

🎶🎹
Hear Piano Transcriptions by:

Earl Wild
Franz Liszt
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Moritz Moszkowski
and Max Pirani

featured on “The HIDDEN Project”
streaming everywhere...

www.johnmcarthurpiano.com/pages/the-hi...

📷: John Decker

“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
- Henry Miller

#pianosky #musicsky #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #jazz

🎶🗽
Celebrating George Gershwin's
birthday weekend...

...and music that stretched
from Broadway theater
to countless movies
into the canon of American music.

#musicsky #pianosky #classicalmusic #jazz

I hope you enjoy 🙂

Full disclosure - this is something I worked on - but I think it is classically Sibelius in an area he is less known for: solo piano
open.spotify.com/track/2Sst8y...

🎶🌅

Earl Wild’s artful combining of Fauré’s vocal part
and piano accompaniment
into a solo piano piece.

“Après un Rêve”

#pianosky #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #dream

🎶 The French composer, Francis Poulenc, used a harmonic palette containing dissonances that were extremely lush.

Earl Wild’s surrounds Bach’s melody with a new suit of clothes not too different from Bill Evans or Oscar Peterson - with a wink at the end…

www.johnmcarthurpiano.com/blogs/record...

🎶 🌅 This beautiful melody by J.S.Bach,

when introduced to the lush harmonic palette of Francis Poulenc,

reflects the elegance and compositional genius of the incomparable Earl Wild.

📷: John Decker
#musicsky #pianosky #classicalmusic #classicalpiano