Posted in conferences, improvisation on November 30th, 2007 No Comments »
At the New Directions in General Music Conference in October, Bennett Reimer spoke about how according to a recent report, improvisation is one of the least addressed national standards throughout music education. Luckily for our field The International Society for Improvised Music is an organization that can help music educators develop a wide variety […]
Posted in improvisation, Composers, Teaching Music, Music Education on September 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Anytime I hear about a music class, whether in K-12 schools or the university level, that makes use of improvisation and composition I get excited. I was happy to read Scott Spiegelberg’s recent post “Teaching Creativity” (via his excellent “Musical Perceptions” blog). At the end of his post he asks the following question […]
Posted in conferences, improvisation, Music Teacher Education, Teaching Music, Music Education on June 7th, 2007 No Comments »
The International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) just issued a call for proposals for their second annual conference. I attended the first conference last year at University of Michigan and it was phenomenal. There were great performances (the performances by Paul Berliner and Pauline Oliveros will stand out in my mind for a very long […]
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