Rossini Intro, Theme and Variations

Music Department, Music Performance, Personal experience, Teaching Music / John Gardner

John Gardner

I just found this recording, which may be one of the last times I played a piece of this level. I recorded it privately using a recorded accompaniment. To my former students, I would asy “find the wrong note” … but I did almost lose a couple, although one of those was so far above the staff…..

Anyway, there is a short “Introduction” followed by the “Theme” and then gradually increasingly difficult “Variations”.

John Gardner · Rossini Intro Theme Variations

Endurance was never my strength. Technical proficiency may have been. Enjoy. Comment.

Here are some other recordings/performances on John Gardner’s Soundcloud page, including my college senior recital.

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Bullying, Band and Best Practices

4 Comments / Classroom Teacher, College Prep, High Schools, Music Department, Parenting, Respect, School Security, Teaching, Teaching Music / John Gardner

By John Gardner

UPDATE: Be sure to read the parent comments at the end of this article.

Over a decade after high school graduation, he told his parents he was bullied as a high school freshman, not telling them at the time because he feared they’d make a big deal of it.

He DID go to a teacher who ignored or brushed aside his emotional plea. In his valedictorian speech at graduation three years later, when he listed the “Top 10 Things I Learned in High School”, one of them was…..