If you didn’t know already, 2007 is MENC’s centennial year. One of the celebration campaigns is having a Centennial Canon performed and recorded by MENC members and/or their students and then submitted to MENC. What would the Canon sound like…
I was interested to read about Roger Bourland’s approaches to teaching music theory and making it more meaningful to his students. One of the approaches that stood out as a great idea was having the students bring music they are…
I haven’t written much on this blog on issues dealing with early childhood music but find it a fascinating area. The New York Times recently reported on the television show Jack’s Big Music Show. I wonder what impact shows such…
In the livejournal music education forum a Director of Education for a mid-west professional orchestra wants to know ” if there is something that you, as educators in schools, would love to have from your local performing arts group, such…
The Christian Science Monitor had a very interesting article a couple of days ago that raises several important things for music educators to think about. The article discusses music school graduates and urban cultural institutions providing urban schools with music…