The Blue Piano and Other Stories

These autobiographical stories sparkle with vignettes of people places and pets but their deeper subject is that of the woman pianist in a male-dominated world. The subject is not new but Ms. Montparker brings to it a rewarding freshness of insight. Þä Jerome LowenthalÞPianist; and faculty The Juilliard SchoolÞ The pianist's latest book deserves to be read by anyone who plays or wishes to play or ever wished to play the piano and by everyone else too. She writes about music in a sane wise humane voice in this charming instructive often moving collection. Þä Michael KimmelmanÞChief Art Critic ÊThe New York TimesÊ; and pianist

Carol Montparker is a pianist and writer. As an editor of Clavier magazine for over twenty years, Montparker has written over 200 feature articles and interviews of world-famous concert artists, along with her regular column, "Carillon " a personal view of music, and how it relates to the other arts, nature, and all of life. Carol Montparker is a Steinway Artist and continues to perform both solo and chamber music. Her CD, Pianogarden, has been praised by artists and critics. Montparker maintains and enjoys an active teaching studio in her residence in Huntington, Long Island, where she lives with her husband, Ernest Taub.

"These autobiographical stories sparkle with vignettes of people, places and pets, but their deeper subject is that of the woman pianist in a male-dominated world. The subject is not new, but Ms. Montparker brings to it a rewarding freshness of insight."- Jerome LowenthalPianist; and faculty, The Juilliard School"The pianist's latest book deserves to be read by anyone who plays or wishes to play or ever wished to play the piano, and by everyone else too. She writes about music in a sane, wise, humane voice in this charming, instructive, often moving collection."- Michael KimmelmanChief Art Critic, The New York Times; and pianist

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