SynopsisSkyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure. With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to practice every day, suggesting that they work th, Playing the Piano for Pleasure is a generous potpourri of pianistic advice of the highest caliber, full of concrete instruction, based not only on the author's own. experiences at the keyboard, but also on research and interviews with master pianists and music writers. Topics include: The Place of Music in the Amateur, The Pleasant Necessity of Practicing, Transforming Weakest Passages Into Strongest, A Discussion of Certain Fine Compositions, Cooke wrote, "This book is frankly intended as inspirational. In it I have tried to communicate my indelible enthusiasm for music-in particular for that noble, self-sufficient instrument, the piano., Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure . With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to practice every day, suggesting that they work through just that section time and again until it is perfect. In addition to his own thoughts, Cooke includes material from his interviews with master pianists, artists, and writers. The result is a book that should be cherished for years to come.