Do you notice any students of yours who do particularly well when composing in your music program? Let them know that young composers do get noticed! Recently, a 17 year old composer was the winner of 2 big awards and…
Thanks to David Wolf for the link to Soundtransit! While some people play music from around the world for their students, it is probably less common to have field recordings for our students to listen to of actual everyday sounds…
Track 1 – How long until public school music programs start up their own laptop orchestras ? If you had one in your school one of your students might even eventually make a career writing electronica and orchestral music! Track…
Guitar Shred Show is definitely one of the more creative ways of using multimedia applications to allow people to interact with music on the internet. One nice thing about Mr. Fastfinger is that he’ll never loose his patience as you…
It was refreshing to finally read about students’ perspectives of how to get other young people to attend classical music concerts. In some previous posts I have mentioned the need for a younger perspective when it comes to the topic…