Discipline: Music Composition

Brooke Halpin

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1981
Brooke Halpin is an accomplished broadcaster, pianist, composer, painter, and published author. He wrote The Everything Playing Piano and Keyboards Book; The Only Basic Piano Instruction Book You'll Ever Need, published by Adams Media and Playing the Piano and Keyboards, published by David & Charles, PLC, (UK), a Beatles quiz book, Do You Really Know the Beatles?, and a novel based on a true story, A Magical Mystery Time.

Studios

Monday Music

Brooke Halpin worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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