Our sincere thanks to Dr. John Zeigler for hosting these recitals in his home. PEP got several major uplifts in its appearance and function in 1997. We improved all the graphics, simplified the layout, added much more music, increased the number and size of articles and reviews tremendously, added search capability to the site, and made it more interactive. If you haven't seen it, take a look at it. It's well worth reading and easily accessible from PEP's home page.
PEP continues to win awards and receive worldwide publicity.
In August, PEP was featured again in an article on the Internet published in MTNA's journal, The American Music Teacher. These and other honors have contributed to PEP's increase in visitors to its current average of about 500 per day. The site passed 200,000 visits just after the first of the year. PEP consistently ranks in the top five piano-related sites on the Internet in number of daily visits and is the only such site to do so. It has expanded content over its predecessor and several new features and services.