Overview

PtoP is a book about music from the introspective of the instrument itself: the modern concert grand piano and the art to play and teach it on a world class level from within a living tradition. This instrument, after centuries of transformations and modifications, remains unchanged for now nearly 150 years as it reached its peak perfection in the late 19th century. Playing it really really well requires at least 10,000 hours of special training to a level of basic mastery. To compete on a world class level, continued training for another decade is necessary, which further necessitates and facilitates the development of special abilities: e.g. to reach and maintain an Olympic level of skills physically and mentally, to learn old and create new musical content, and to perform tens of thousands of notes in a sublimely organized order with expressive emotional abandonment and near 101%perfection from memory on stage. The larger first parts I and II of this book are addressed to all interested in serious piano playing and its study, in piano pedagogy and instrumental methodology from Pianist to Pianist. The Golden Ratio proportioned smaller parts II and IIII of PtoP are addressed to all readers interested in musical and artistic reflections beyond the instrument itself, and in contemporary cultural observations and concerns from one citizen of the musical world to another. PtoP's particular and unorthodox - structure and organization (SBP, Structured Bullet-Point format) makes this book 'difficult to place' in a music store; it is ... not shelvable ... according to publishers, hobbled by the structures of traditional libraries and bookstores. Or so I was told. One and/or more of the chapters expanded ... it surely would become shelvable as separate books in several distinct shelfs. But perhaps it does not have to be 'shelvable' as it is. PtoP is well placed on the grand piano, as that is where it came from; and there are new ways to write, format, and publish in our day and age: In the digitized world of the 21st century, the content of PtoP can be read as a hard copy or on an electronic tablet, on the music stand, in one's hands, or on retina display, and evidently without ever having graced a shelf. One distinctive advantage of the Structured Bullet-Point (SBP) format is the accommodation of the ever-decreasing attention span, which is progressing precipitously in our emergent 21st century. Though often longer than the iconoclastic 140 characters, individual - bullet-point logs can indeed be read independently, like browsing a blog, one at a time or many in a row, and not necessarily in a chronological order.

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I witnessed Jura Margulis develop into a visionary piano pedagogue withan exceptional understandingof physical application and historical methodology, a superior grasp of pianistic traditions, anda unique amalgamation of the Russian and Germanpiano schools. In his own way he carries the pianistic and pedagogical traditions of the 19th and 20th centuries into the 21st. Martha Argerich, 2018

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Born in Leningrad, Russia, Jura Margulis was raised in Germany, where he studied with his father, Vitaly Margulis, at the Musikhochschule Freiburg. He was also a student at the prestigious Lieven Fondazione per il Pianoforte in Cadenabbia at Lake Como in Italy. In 1994 he moved to the United States to study with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and made the US his home. 2008 Margulis became the inaugural holder of the Emily J. McAllister Endowed Professorship in Piano at the J.W. Fulbright College of the University of Arkansas. In 2018 Jura Margulis returned to Europe following an appointment as professor of piano and member of the Institute of Science and Research at the Music and Art University in Vienna, Austria.Pianist Jura Margulis has been internationally recognized for his compelling and communicative performances, for the range of his expressive vision, and for his consummate virtuosity. Reviewers have praised the absolute authority of his interpretations and the sense of controlled obsession he transmits at the keyboard (Fono Forum). In August of 2011 Drehpunkt Kultur in Salzburg wrote: After the performance one fleetingly thinks of the pianists that became legends, but comparisons are impermissible. Margulis is a master sui generis (of his own kind).Jura Margulis has played in numerous festivals, including the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, the Berliner Festwochen at Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Verbier and the BSI Festivals in Switzerland, the Argerich-Beppu Music Festivalin Japan, and the Salzburger Festspiele in Austria. He performed in over 15 countries in the past years. Margulis has recorded CDs for Sony, Ars Musici, and Oehms Classics, covering a wide spectrum of repertoire. In 2014 Margulis released an all Schubert con Sordino CD on a MSP Steingraeber D-232 prototype. Fono Forum writes: Margulis plays (Schubert) with an enthusiasm, a sensitivity, and a creative imagination that are near incomparable. In 2015 his latest CD was released with all original transcriptions of music form Bach to Shostakovich on the MSP Steingraeber D-232 including a piano duo with Martha Argerich of Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky, also in Margulis' original transcription -... astonishing ... Piano News; ...demonic ... a brilliant achievement ... Pianiste. Since 2008 Margulis was the inaugural holder of the McAllister Endowed Professorship in Piano at the University of Arkansas in the US. In 2018 Jura Margulis was appointed Professor of Piano at the Musik and Art University in Vienna.For more information please visit www.JuraMargulis.com

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