Based on a question submitted by our user markeog, Alan provided an elaborate answer that perfectly suits this series.
Born in Montreal in 1955 Alan Fraser studied piano but also delved into composition, cello, classical singing and had several stints as a pop musician. Alan’s main pianistic influence was the pioneering research of Phil Cohen who studied alongside Ronald Turini, Andre Laplante and Janina Fialkowska with Yvonne Hubert, who had been Cortot‘s assistant in Paris. Alan spent several years with Cohen after an apprenticeship with two former Cohen students, Alan Belkin and Lauretta Milkman.
Question turned in a small series and this is part 1. Alan talks about what he has recently learned about rotation
Part 2 out of 3 in from Alan's Q&A on rotation. We are talking about the true skeletal alignment and rotating on the note.
Alan is bringing the thumb into the picture. Rotating the opposite way?
Alan is building up Mario's collapsed hand. The hand is joined by elastic strings of bones and has hyper-snake like movement similar to Chopin's hand.
Rotation is allowing fingers to stand up
The paralel between hipjoints and the hand and the ease of lateral movement at the piano
Alan talks about the importance of explaining and showing these concepts well.
It is a fluid state of your hand. Link it to the thumb!
