Thank you to Rob Deemer for his post on NewMusicBox listing 202 living women composers! The list includes links to the composers’ websites as well. Make sure to also take a look at the comment section for ongoing contributions by…
To what extent are women composers represented in our music programs? To what extent are our music programs providing opportunities for young women to think of themselves as composers? Kerry Andrew recently problematized a gender imballance between the ratio of…
In December of 2011 the New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) released a report entitled “The New 3 Rs: Reducing, Restructuring and Redesigning.” The NYSSBA New 3 Rs website includes the following text in refererence to the report: “The…
David Bornstein recently wrote two opinion pieces for the New York times regarding music education. The first “Beyond Baby Mozart, Students Who Rock” focuses on Bornstein’s perspective on the state of music education and the Little Kids Rock organization. The…
If you teach music at the secondary level or have interest in doing so at some point, consider attending the 2011 New Directions in Music Education: Revitalizing Middle and High School Music Conference at Michigan State University this Oct. 6-8…